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why didn't the picotee edging show?

paul_
12 years ago

Didn't get around to asking this earlier so figured now would have to do.

This past summer I picked up three tubers of a begonia type that was supposed to be yellow flowers with a red/orange picotee. The plants grew and bloomed well but only one of the stalks produced flowers that had the picotee. All the others produced simply yellow flowers. All three tubers were planted in the same pot. I'm assuming the stalk which had the picotee on the flowers was from one tuber and all the others stalks were from the other two.

So my Q: Other than genetics (which is what I'm assuming it most likely is), are there other factors which could have been at play here and -- if yes -- what might those factors have been?

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