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Gawd_oOo
04-10-2006, 07:26 PM
I recieved seed from someone on the boards of this hybrid last year, probably around this time. Sadly my record keeping wasn't as good back then.. Anyway, I didn't sow them until a few months ago, they got buried in the fridge, but now I have flowering plants.

Now I have a few Questions.

It seems the color of my flowers is pretty far off. I haven't caught one open yet, but with just the tips of a flower poking out, it clearly isn't the pale purple of the photos on Z's photo finder.

Sorry pics aren't the best, they are quickies.
http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/284/ooo0060sf.th.jpg (http://img221.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ooo0060sf.jpg)
http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/4884/ooo0087kj.th.jpg (http://img209.imageshack.us/my.php?image=ooo0087kj.jpg)

Does anyone else have this hybrid with flowers any other color then purple-pale purple?

How do 2 white flowered plants combine to make purple in the first place?

Any ideas as what this might be if the seed wasn't IDed properly?

mabudon
04-11-2006, 06:17 AM
could be, but mine have some variability- the ones that flower indoors under lights have darker-looking flowers (and this could only be a trick of perception)
Looks about right to me, from the pics, tho I am hardly a master

Odd that it makes purple flowers tho, I don't know why that would result, hopefuly the explanation appears in this very thread http://www.terraforums.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif