Well I have tried it and I will know in a few months what the result is. I also read the other day that one plant was responsible for almost all the variegated plants in Australia and right now I dont remember the name. The photo showed a bright red flushed center

I am very curious as to the result of your Texas Storm, HDD. Especially because it has connections with Ray C. I read something interresting that he said about creating variegates, that he learned from C Skotak. That you need a 'transmitter'. But what a transmitter is, he does not say. There is a picture of one though on the page in the link below. And that plant could well have ties with your Storm. So, what has that plant that makes it visually recocnizable as a transmitter?

Here is a link that might be useful: Ray Coleman

Hi Japie, A few years ago I used the albomarginated Neo Gorrion as a seed mother to experiment with a little hybridising. After 100% successful germination MOST seedlings turned out to be albino's and died within the first month. However, a few "normal" seedlings survived and were grown on. It was an interesting experiment, however, alot of work for only a few plants.

As HDD mentions, the Australians have produced alot of variegated (& albomarginated) Neo's called the Aussie Dream grex. See link. These were all produced using the variegated Neo meyendorffii 'mother' which is known to produce a percentage of variegated & albomarginated hybrids

Here is a link that might be useful: Aussie Dream grex

Look out, Japie, you are getting into the realm of trade secrets!

I've been busily gleaning info on the subject myself, and finally had the opportunity to work with a couple of transmitter plants for the first time this year. I wasn't planning to comment on any of this until I'd had a chance to test them out for myself, but it has come to my attention that there is already at least one article in print on the subject (in NZ) so what the heck......

From what I've been told, what you look for in a potential transmitter is lots of fine striations, rather than either albo-margination or mediopicta variegation. If this striation also appears on the sepals, then you've got a good shot, but only a certain percentage of the seedlings will come out variegated, like maybe 20%.

Now, that's all I'm going to say about it until I see the results of this year's crosses! :-p

Devo, thanks for your comments! The remaining 'normal' Gorrion seedlings, were they just green, variegated or albo-marginated? And I will remember the variegated Meyendorfi mother!

Thank you Lisa!!!

You will make me go out into this night into the garden again with a torch inspecting all my plants, and tonight for sure I am going to dream about stripes and lines!

My "normal" seedlings from the Gorrion cross were just green. The reason I tried this cross was to try and produce a few variegated seedlings, with a size close to that of Gorrion...but no joy. In hind sight, I would have been better to use another miniature Neo to try and obtain a batch of smaller size hybrids, or a variegated / striated meyendorfii style plant to try and obtain some variegated seedlings.