Sports - Fried and Alive

15 years ago

About mid-July removed sporting divisions from a couple of hostas and put in new sunny garden. Watered like crazy but leaves still got toasty. 90's and humid when planted.

Now almost a month later and 3 new eyes on 1 division of Clifford's Comet Sport and 3 new eyes total on the other 2 divisions of Grand Tiara Sport. I was expecting a slow recovery and reflush of leaves to original division.

Observation I take from this and EO's experiments - is that hostas if stressed and provided with moist conditions seem to force multiple new eyes readily.

Clifford's Comet Sport - I'm waiting to see leaves of the 3rd eye unfurl. Each leaf of original division was different.

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Grand Tiara Sport

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Sun Power Sport (Wasn't planted in as much Sun, like the other two, but thought I would share the picture.)

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Paul

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Comments (2)

hostasformez4
15 years ago
You have been busy! Hope they thrive for you.

Connie
esther_opal
15 years ago
"Observation I take from this and EO's experiments - is that hostas if stressed and provided with moist conditions seem to force multiple new eyes readily."
Paul

Paul, thank you for the report, I'm trying to gather a body of knowledge on all this and any results good bad or indifferent helps.

Your results fitÂs everything I'm observing. BIG BUTT the stress part doesn't seem to be a prerequisite, regardless of stressed or no stress new eyes are appearing.
Trying to keep it simple is not easy because everything that happens to and within a plant is related.

Paul if you saw the test on "Fairy Rings" seems to be related to softening the old eyes with the moisture from the mulch placed inside the ring.
Now to the emergence of the new eyes, a lot of water as I'm using in most of this work will allow new eyes to appear more easily.
This is an interim conclusion that I canÂt figure how to demonstrate or prove, BIG BUTT it does explain what we are seeing.

Snow Cap that had all the old eyes from previous years placed in the stream and it makes about 8-10 eyes along these old eyes that are years old.

Here is the photo of the H.'Lyman' that all the foliage had died, then placed in the stream and it makes 4 new eyes almost immediately.

Here is a photo taken today of a single division ventricosa potted in potting soil with water covering the crown constantly making new eyes like crazy.
Look carefully and you can see the original eye putting up new growth also.
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