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Need help to form seeds on this plant.
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Posted by garden_of_oz Z5 KS (My Page) on Tue, Aug 28, 01 at 22:42
| I have a variegated cockcomb that is growing in a row of other cockcombs in my garden. It has green and white leaves. What are my chances of saving seed of this plant and growing more next year. It has just started to form the head.
Does it need pollination to make seed? Or can I put a nylon stocking over it to keep the solid green plants from pollinating with it?
Or do I just keep the seeds and plant all of the next year hoping that they have a few more like the parent.
I really would like to keep it for next year.
Bessie
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RE: Need help to form seeds on this plant.
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| I was under the impression that all variegation is caused by fungus or virus. The only way to be sure you keep the strain is to keep cuttings. Sorry |
RE: Need help to form seeds on this plant.
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Bessie
It's not the case that all variegation is caused by virus or fungus ... the variegation where the leaves are streaked or spotted is usually viral. Other variegation is not caused by virus and at least a percentage of seedlings may also show variegation so it is worth your while saving some seeds to try them. I could list a number of variegated plants which come true from seed, so give it a go !
G_P |
RE: Need help to form seeds on this plant.
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| Variegation in the true sense of the word is not viral. Variegation is caused by certain genes in the dividing cells of plant tissue switching off and on. When you have a plant with lateral (lenthwise) variegation, the white or yellow area is where the meristematic tissue at the edge/tip of the growth (leaf or otherwise) stopped producing green chlorophyll, and all the celles that divided at that point on the leaf were from that original cell/group of cells, leading to a well-defined, straight, unbroken streak of white/yellow (like variegated spider plant). You see, leaves do not grow from the base, but from the tip and edges, so any time an anomaly arises at any tip dividing cell (or meristem) the cells that are produced from that cell will all have the same anomoly, leading to a line of anomalous cells. Viral "variegation" is actually color break, and generally appeatrs as highly irregular streaking, brushing, and necrotic tissue. Other forms of true varietgation include mottling (which is just different pigments in differend areas of the tissue, sometimes layeres of color), teselation/veining (water and/or fat soluble pigments or color compounds clump together along veins), and spotting (another case of pigments appearing at certain points on the tissue). CJM:) |
RE: Need help to form seeds on this plant.
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| G_P and CJM In your opinion should I allow this plant to cross polinate or should I put a nylon stocking over it so it doesn't pollinate? Thank you for your infomation. Bessie |
RE: Need help to form seeds on this plant.
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in my opinion, you should polinate it with its own pollen,
that way you should get some plants like it, and maybe some more mutants[but i dont know if it's to late yet] |
RE: Need help to form seeds on this plant.
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| In cases where variegation can be passed onto the offspring, it is usually passed on through from the mother plant. I do not think it will matter if the plant is selfed or cross-pollinated. Save the seed from that particular plant. |
RE: Need help to form seeds on this plant.
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| How do you pollinate celosia cristata (cockscomb)? I've never seen any pollen. Where does the pollen form? How can it be pollinated with itself? |
RE: Need help to form seeds on this plant.
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| I saw your e-mails about cocks comb plants and wondered if you know how to dry them and if it can be done successfully. Will they hold their color when dried? |
RE: Need help to form seeds on this plant.
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Native Seeds/Search says tha cockscomb, like amaranth, was domesticated as a grain by native Americans in Mexico.
I know it is wind pollinated and somewhat self-pollinated.
It is possible that you will be more varigated plants. It is also possible you will get segregation of normal and albino seedlings.
Let us know what you get.
Walter |
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