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Same fruit different seedlings

19 years ago

I've grown out 7 seedlings from my vitifolia fruit. 5 have foliage just like the seed parent, 1 is similar and the other is completely different. It's so different that I'm wondering if it's really a passiflora or maybe some other type of vine seedling. I don't know which passie might have pollinated the vitifolia but the one seedling's leaves don't look anything like any passiflora that I have. I'll try to remember to post a pic later. It's just weird. All my other hybrids at least look like a passie, usually the seed parent.

Karyn

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angie83
19 years ago
Not sure but with passie anything is possiable hehehe cant wait for that pic.I planted many seeds I was so excited I saw what I thought was passie sprouting but what really happened was my granddaughter had added some dasiy seeds to my pot hehehe of course they were dasiy dumb me I never get passie to sprout in 3 days hehehe.
msbatt
19 years ago
Passies come in some VERY different shapes! Think of seedlings from the same pod like puppies from the same litter---even when they're pedigreed pure-breds, they're all going to be a little different, due to genetic variation and recombination. With mongrels (i.e., open-pollenated), they can be VERY different!
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