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Surprise in African Violet Seedling Cross

7 years ago

Mind you, this photo isn't very good and the color is bad. But I'll get better shots later. This is a close up of tiny African Violet seedlings from a selfing of Rebel's Splatter Kake which is NOT a variegated plant. Yet a few of the seedlings in this cross are showing the start of mosaic like variegation. Very interesting! I will have to wait and see if the pattern persists as these get larger and older. Sown at the end of December and ready now for a second transplanting.





I did this cross merely as a club demo and almost threw the seed out, then germinated some of it on a whim. Now I may sow the rest of the cross just to see if I get more variegated babies to keep an eye on. There are at least two, maybe three, in this small batch so far and I have a lot more seed left.

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