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| Okay so last year I bought a gorgeous and vigorous purple grandiflora petunia plant. It was a great plant but it was killed by the frosts that came along with the start of autumn. The pot in which my plant resided was left outside during the winter (which was pretty mild than usual). So this spring resulted in what I call a "reseeding frenzy" because little petunia seedlings started to pop up. Eventually I got these seedlings and potted them up and they went into flower (all very healthy by the way).
Well the thing is that I got all these wonderful shades of purple, different shapes, and many of these petunias produced flowers with small stripes towards the inside. Now I'm noticing that a few petunia plants are now producing different tones of purple and flowers with more noticeable white patterns. Well now I'm curious is this some kind of floribunda or multiflora? Any suggestions will be appreciated, thanks. |
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- Posted by ken_adrian z5 (My Page) on Sat, Jun 30, 12 at 19:43
| the short answer is: they do NOT come true from seed ... if you want the specific HYBRID.. you have to buy the seed for that HYBRID.. or the plant and not rely on the open pollinated spawn of that hybrid more in depth.. your 'purple' might not be the base true color of petunia.. so as the genes start breaking down.. thru open pollination .. you will start seeing.. ma .. . and pa.. and grandma.. and grandpa ... and not only as to color.. but type ... all the genes.. in all the generations .. have the potential to surface ... not unlike how i ended up with a red head boy.. two generations since the last.. lol .. and if you achieve the same OP seeds over the next few years.. they will all degenerate to that base color ... and form ... bet you didnt expect a crash course on genetics.. lol ken |
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- Posted by dowlinggram 3 (My Page) on Sun, Jul 1, 12 at 1:44
| Ken is right as usual A hybrid Petunia--or any hybrid plant-- comes from many cross pollinations with different varieties of that same species. If left to go to seed not only does the ancesters of your plant come into play but also the plant the bee visited to pollinate your plant. There is only a very slim chance that you'll get the same plant from a hybrid plant's seed |
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- Posted by Francios11 none (My Page) on Sun, Jul 1, 12 at 16:38
| That explains.....Well thanks Ken and Dowling I think I feel much better and enlightened by your guys' wisdom. I think I'll collect some seeds from these petunias and plant them next spring, I'm kinda liking this hybridizing thing. |
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| I have a petunia like that. It has those stripes, but some don't have as many, they are very variable, and on one plant. I'm definitely saving seeds from it. A couple of years ago I had a small bloom petunia, don't remember what it was (Barbara Bush?). This year, seeds came up in the basket it had been in, and they grew and were the same thing. |
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| I saved the seeds from several types of trailing petunias last year and sowed them in my greenhouse this spring. I knew they would be all shapes and sizes, but ended up with over 240 free petunias and all of them were worthy of planting. I let them come to bloom in pots so I'd have a clue what they'd look like before I set them out or put them in baskets. Many still have a trailing habit, many were various shades of purple from the softest lavender to the darkest burgundy. Some were a lovely plum, a few white, lots of pinks, and a few reds..... and I got a few variegated ones as well. I surely didn't have to buy any this year and sitting out in their urns, baskets and in the ground, sorted as to what I wanted where, they look just as nice in a more old-fashioned and slightly blowsy way as the pricey ones they replaced from last year. |
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