IMHO ... its all there at conception .... others disagree ... there was a similar post a few weeks back ... if you look close enough....: red petioles are there .... base color is there .... blues just look a bit cloudy from the waxy coating.. they do not look blue .... when you have thousands of shiny babes... and two that are glaucous .. what other conclusion can you come to ... streaks are there.... waves are there ... and after a leaf or two ... there can be some puckering ...nothing impressive .. just some leaf characteristics that are out of the norm of the other million seedlings ... just my opinion .... ken

judithva - You have the most beautful table settings!!! I had to do a search on you and saw your album....I want to be just as creative as you when I grow up!!!! Very Beautiful Could anyone tell me the difference in the patterns? georgiagal - she has plates with the rabbit in the middle with pointed edges...what type of plates are these? Dinner, Salad, Dessert lauren88 pa - she has the plate with the round edge trimmed with carrots around the edge and rabbit in the middle...what type of plate is this? judithva - has the bowl with the decorative border with two rabbits facing eachother. Someone help please!

Six months since sowing has yielded many seedlings which have grown to different sizes. The most promising ones were the zonals: I got beautifully-arranged saucer-like leaves some with and some without the zonal color. Some are about to flower and some have flowered in semi-double salmon flowers, tri-color paintbox single flower and single orange flowers. It was astonishing to see that 6 months were enough to bring them to the size and flowering habit we see in commerce. All those hybrids were the product of seeds from my own collection. The Regals, on the other hand, were disappointing. To take further measures, I did a purchase of Regals with the sought-after foliage and flower, but first I will talk about the problem I faced. In a previous post, I noted that I had them growing into a disordered form, as if the branches have been lumped together. My original question is here: http://forums.gardenweb.com/discussions/3703390/growth-form-anomaly-disease-or-bad-cultivation I decided to give them more time, trim and fertilize them and let them grow. I have finally rested my case concerning the growth anomaly, and concluded there was no disease. The Regals simply displayed a different growth habit. On the other hand, their growth was poor compared to the zonals. They barely fill their pots and they show uniformity in their foliage. Up to now, just one has flowered scarcely, and the flowers were the wild-looking ones. Their branches were tall and spindly, but will they eventually grow thick enough, or did I pickup the wrong plants to cross-pollinate? One hybrid, though, is more to my taste, but it has yet to flower. The leaves are very large, deeply lobed and heavily lemon-scented. The leaves are rough like those of its seed parent. The row of Pelargoniums (On the left side) comprises 5 of them: The four zonals and the scented Regal just behind the bamboo stick. If you're interested, I will add individual pictures with close-up.

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