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Mon, Jun 25, 12 at 23:30
| I have a rose(dont remember the name) that the first 2 years was full of color (white to yellow in the center and pink on the outside. The last 2 years it has turned almost completely white and the blooms do not look very good. The plant it self looks very good and has lots of blooms they just dont have any color |
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| here is another picture of the rose when the blooms had color |
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| Your rose is phototropic, it changes color from the yellow/white to the red with heat and sunlight. What has changed where it is growing? Is there more shade? Is there anything which has made the spot cooler with less direct or radiated/reflected heat? The more colorful photo is a striped rose. The less colorful one is like a Double Delight or Cherry Parfait and not striped. Perhaps what you had originally was a sport of the original and it has now reverted back to the parent form. Has the branch now flowering produced the striped flower before? If you're concerned about it no longer being striped, it's likely to have reverted to a non striped form. If it's the fact it has less intense coloring, that is likely due to reduced light and heat. What seems to fit the situation better? Kim |
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| The 2 photos are the same rose and yes it is a double delight. nothing has changed it still in full sun and getting the same amount of water. i put down rose feed in the spring.Light and heat have not changed. any other ideas ? |
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| If that striper is a stable sport, I want it! Jeri |
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| Transient changes in color are due to changes in light and heat, which occur all the time. Permanent changes are due to mutation (sporting). Mutations can also be temporary (unstable). As Kim said, the striped bloom was a mutation, apparently a temporary one. The white might be also, but DD often makes cream-colored blooms, depending on light and heat. Mutations occur on a single stem. A mutation would take over the whole plant only if all the normal canes died, for example by winter damage. |
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- Posted by professorroush 6A (My Page) on Tue, Jun 26, 12 at 18:11
| Yeah, what JeriJen said, Double Delight looks like the first photo, but never, in my experience, like the second. The second would be a VERY valuable rose to propagate. |
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