Hahaha--that's good! I have a 'Gold Standard' with the same 'strikes'!
Cool, huh!!!

BTW--welcome to the forum 'sip'! :o)

go to the library ... find LO

then link to hugo's database ...

find from which it came ....

then go to hugo's for that one ...

then find the progeny of that one..

and i bet you will find something akin ...

the most common place you will find such.. is striptease ...

so.. and i dont have time to do it for you ... if both came from gold standard ... in hugo under GS.... you will find similar things ... most likely .... the trait is hidden in the genes.. somewhere back in time ...

or just turn off the computer and go play in the garden ...

ken

Here's Hyacinthina with a white streak, showed up last year. Maybe a bit wider this year and also some changes between couple of sets of veins.
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Sun Power threw a white streak last year so I seperated that division and it came back this year, but so far its been tissue thin and rabbits got to it before I could get a picture, so waiting for another leaf. Pic below from last year, eye with wide white center was a dormant eye that grew after shock of moving to more sun.
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Paul

hey paul ..... didnt bruce just tell us that GS came from Hyacintha???

ken

ken, so your telling me mine me they're all turning into Gold Standards right?? I'm blaming bruce - lol. I love the sporting side of growing hosta, it's like a new paint job.

By the way are you all set for the tours? Hope you'll share some photos after the tours.

paul

no paul.... that is not what i am saying. ...

its in the genes ...

its in the family ... and if you trace back the family .. you wont be all that surprised when it happens ...

in this family.. its not all that uncommon .. so i would only do 2 cartwheels ...

if my elatior did it... i would be cartwheeling all the way to the TC lab ...

i too.. like the unstableness ... what has been a common ... plain old plant for ten years... in my garden.. will just go something extreme... its neat

ken

so should be doing anything special with this hosta? TC?

enjoy it.. odds are it wont be there next year .... depending on family.. i probably wouldnt even cut it out.. and harm the momma plant

ken

This is a pic of a hosta,I used to call 'Yipes Stripes'. It remained streaky for several years. This year it came back up as,you guessed it;just another Gold Standard,its original plant form. This confirms what Ken said. It probably won't even come back like that next year! I've had several Gold Standards that do that every year;even this year,but the next year they usually are normal. Just enjoy it! Phil
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Ken's right about Hyacinthina's propensity for sporting. Here's a 4-year old Hyacinthina sport, initially spotted as a couple of streaky leaves and left attached to the mother plant for 2 years before separating it. This is the 2nd year and I'm starting to see certain parts showing signs of being fairly stable, so I'll be sure to keep it well hydrated for the next week or so and then it will go under the knife!

pietertje, I'd love to see my Hyacinthina make a jump like yours - some very cool 3-4 color leaves at 8-9 o'clock position.

Paul

Paul, out of the wide variety of patterns those are my favourite as well, and thank goodness they all seem to come from one shoot on the crown. Once I do the division I will go for as many individual shoots with crown and roots as possible. I'll take lots of pictures and will post their progress over the next couple of years on my website. Some appear to be fairly stable already, others are still streakers. I figure that there may be as many as 3 or maybe even 4 fairly distinct types in here by the time they're all stable.

Would you believe I've already had someone approach for a division...

Yeah,that is one amazing Hyacinthina! I think it deserves being named a new cultivar! Nothing like that ever happened in my garden,but I probably haven't been at it as long as you. Good luck with you're separating the sports! Phil

I probably haven't been at it as long as you.

Phil, I haven't been 'serious' about Hosta for too many years. Seems to me my interest first got piqued about 6 or 7 years ago, when I started to get a bit more intrigued and involved with ornamental gardening. Having said that, this sport appeared on a clump that's been in the same spot for about 20 years or more. Sports happen. Randomly. Heck I've seen, and purchased, fairly common Hosta that are sporting right in the #1 pot they're in at the nursery. Most of the time when a single sporting leaf shows nothing will become of it and it'll be back to normal the next year. Periodically though you will encounter sporting on an entire shoot and that's when it becomes interesting because you'll see a continuation of the process the next year.

And as for naming it, it has occurred to me. I have already done some cursory checking to see if there are any known Hyacinthina sports like what I'm experiencing and I have failed to come up with one, but then again a fair number I was unable to pull up any pictures for, so who knows...

Here is a link that might be useful: Fortunei Hyacinthina sports

hosta freak!! You had a streaky Gold Standard? the pic looks quite interesting!! that might have been a plant very well worth working with to produce new hosta. if it ever comes back streaky, divide the steaker out. and try to maintain that streakiness. or mail it to me. LOL

Paul

Paul,I did divide the streaker out. It grew as streaky every year,until this one,when it came up as just another Gold Standard.(I already have 15 of them!) It may change back,but I am not holding my breath. Phil