Eddie, do you treat your plants with anything to get sports or mutations? colchicine?

oxmyx,
no, that stuff really scares me . i know that certain plants do well treated with it to form variegation . colocasia stitched magic is a good example . keep in mind that when using these chemical, the second geretion often reverts back to its colocasia illustrious form.

i collect allot of sports , its a fun hobby. never know when you will find one , from a nursery to back yard gardens .

sorry if I hijacked this thread but I had to know! you not only are a good breeder/gardener but you are lucky! great combination. I have never seen a sport, or at least recognized it, except once on a gourd vine that turned into a ribbon stem. It had at least 30 growth ends in a bundle. In other words, instead of the usual one leaf at a time there were dozens of simultaneous leaf nodes at a clip!

That colocasia stitched magic is amazing. I could only find it at Ty Ty Nursery
They want 195.00 a plant

Eddie you are a great guy. I hope someone can help. What I really want to say is that I love amaryllis and I hope you get your wish and share pictures with us.
Luzia

Eddie I'm not sure where Odessa is but I deal with two excellent nurseries in TX. I know that Zone 9 Tropicals carries some brugs though that's not what I buy from him. Bob has the nicest plants of any nursery I've ever delt with. You can check his rating on GWD. Another excellent TX nursery is Caldwell in Rosenburg though I don't know if they carry brugs or not. Both nurseries have always sent me big healthy plants. Bob even gave me a nice sized Culebra.
Karyn
BTW Very cool amaryllis. I had a Peter Pan agapanthus send out a variegated leaf and got so excited but it wasn't from an offset and it was the only one produced. I wonder if you could use shears that have been used on a color break plumeria or a variegated lemon and transfer the virus to another plant? With my luck I'd just end up killing them. lol

oxmyx,
TyTy actually created this plant . it was treated with colchicines, this forced the plant to chemically modify itself, witch in return caused it to become a stable mutation . i can only amagine how many thousands of plants that died trying to find a stable one

karyn1,
i'm not sure if i would like the effect of the color break virus on the brug flowers . this could distort the color of the bloom , and leave it with a splashy effect . it may be possible , it has been recorded in many brug relatives . here is a great link , good example of brug relative with color changes.

http://www.apsnet.org/online/Archive/2003/IW000031.asp

i would never try anything like this on my property . just too dangerous to the rest of my plants . if one brugmansia with color break was to be released to the general public . i think the days of having vivid color blooms will be over . it would probably be easy to spread by bugs. after all, every bug in the world loves brugs .lol lol just my opinion .

i'm old fashioned when it comes to hunting sports . i think when i see a sport for the first time, it makes it worth it all. mother nature does this work for us . we have sports all around us . just keep an eye open and you will see them .

below is a pic of a sport we are working on now . it's sporting from a variegated Daphne odora

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I'm on a hunt, sounds like fun.. Question is, can I recognize a sort when I see one. are most sports a variegation of some sort or is one likely to find other attributes?

Barry that colocasia is spectacular. I love variegated foliage and I also like color break blooms. I get more solid sports coming from variegated plants then anything else. I did have a newly rooted P&C cutting that went into shock for some reason or another (dry? I don't remember) and dropped all it's foliage. It grew back a solid green with no variegation at all.
Karyn

Plants are amazing. karyn that is strange. I have a hidden ginger plant that is supposed to be variegated just around the edges. On one leaf the colors were exactly split in half at the central vein - left side near white, right side all green. I thought that was odd.