I have Pink Berkeley Tie Dye, Solar Flare, and Indigo Rose - all brand new seed directly out of a packet. I also have Micheal Pollan(Wild Boar Series) if you're interested. I also have Filius Blue pepper as well off of your want list. I'm interested in Zapotec Ribbed(even if its just a few seeds) and any super hot peppers(nagas, scorpions, 7 pod, etc.) that you're willing to part with. Again, even if its just a few seeds. Let me know if that would be of any interest. Take care !

garry, 'Silver Swan' (also 'Tasmanian Tiger' and 'Glacier Blue') are all variegated forms of E. characias and therefore quite a bit less hardy than any hybrids like 'Helena's Blush' or x martinii. The variegation also tends to reduce hardiness and offers limitations on vigor as well - E. characias in my climate tends to be a BIG, robust, freely seeding plant that takes extremes of winter in stride. Not so for any of the variegated forms.

WOW Lisa. thats absolutely gorgeous, "I LOVE IT" lol @ the mother with her cubs...how cute I bought my first Blushing Tiger 2 years ago I saw another with pups and so i bought it also....lol...I loved blushing tiger that much then i noticed my first BT getting a bit deaded ???this is where i first learnt my first mistake and experience of not putting broms under treated timber framing. I lost a few broms that way actually Ive lost count of how many Blushing tigers i own now as she pups pretty well. I think i may have about 10 or more now?

Gonz, I think you may be onto something...... ;-) Actually, I wasn't really looking for an explanation, as there doesn't seem to be one. Since they are all growing under the same conditions, it obviously isn't temperature or light. If it was fertilizer the one in the first pic would look as green as the second pic, which is actually regaining its stripes at that point. I just figure this is one of Tiger's little quirks that we should be aware of, so we won't have to ask "what am I doing wrong?". Yes, Yong, these all came from one original mother. I believe you are right that there is only one clone of Tiger. My guess is that people who think they have an inferior clone probably just have one that is acting quirky. It may be highly reactive to growing conditions too, but that's not necessarily the whole story. Gastaldi, I'm not sure why you say this plant was not found in nature. Chester Skotak found it in a nursery, but before that it must have been wild collected by someone. It is generally recognized as being a species, not a hybrid. Graeme, the topic of "temperature banding" has been discussed here before. Usually it occurs on marmorated Neos after they have been exposed to cooler temps, and some seem to be more prone to it than others. Many of the Neos pictured on FCBS are showing the effects of this phenomenon (check out some of Przetocki's hybrids, for example). This can be very frustrating for someone from Hawaii when we buy them and they revert to an unbanded state in our more even climate. There are a few cvs. that have a naturally banded pattern even in the tropics, but it's kind of hard to tell without trial and error. Zonation is a very different type of marking than banded marmoration, though, and I don't think I've ever seen a zonate respond that way to temperature changes. Maybe others have?