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4 year old disco belle blooming 2 different color blooms

littleonefb
16 years ago

I grew this disco belle from seed 4 years ago. It started blooming the second year with beautiful large pink flowers.

For the first time in 3 years of blooming the plant is now blooming it's usual large pink flowers and on the same stem it is blooming smaller pure white flowers with a red eye.

We have had quite a bit of extremes in weather temps this year, very dry and a lot of cool temps. The past 2 weeks have been exceptionally cool with temps more like mid to late September and early Oct. Last week the temps where in the 40's overnight. This past weekend the temps returned to the mid to high 90's and the dewpoints where very high. Now the temps had dropped again into the 70's with a low dewpoint. The hibiscus just started to bloom last week.

Last years bloom pics

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Saturday's blooms

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This is what I found this morning. You can see that the pink bloom is on the same stem that the white bud is on. The white bud will open as a smaller flower than the pink with a red eye.

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Can anyone explain what is going on?

thanks in advance for any info you can tell me.

Fran

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