variegated snake plant, new shoots all green
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16 years agoalbert_135 39.17°N 119.76°W 4695ft.
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Sudden variegation appears on green chlorophytum spider plant
Comments (8)That's pretty cool! Am I seeing the right "brother" to its left - a lighter green stripe on darker green leaves? I haven't seen that before in spider plants. I like it! Is that the only white/green variegated pup the plant has produced? I always assumed spider "pups" were genetically identical to the parent plant, but now I wonder if there is some means of recombining DNA. (I'm sure I can find that info somewhere on the net.) So far, so good with my mite of a pup. Although no visible roots, the little guy is still bright and healthy-looking. Turns out it's an offshoot of a slightly larger pup, which I think increases its odds of survival, but maybe decreases the odds of it keeping its lovely stripes. I'm so eager for it to root and grow so I can see what happens!...See MoreSeeds from Variegated Spider Plant grows normal green?
Comments (5)Hi there, I've read that it is true you will get all green spider plants from seeds of varigated plants. This is a quote from a web page I've found... "All the variegated Spider Plants are chimeras. The way we usually propagate the Spider Plant is from the baby plants on the stolons, which is an examle of asexual reprodution where there is no gamete fusion. Therefore there is no genetic variation and every new generation consists of genetically identical individuals as the parent generation. This is the reason why you will get all green plants if you breed new plants from the seeds of variegated plants. I've tried that with the two older variegated varieties that I have (White-Striped Spider Plant & Reverse Spider Plant), only getting all green plants. I am planning to do that with the Bonnie variety too, to see if I can get a smaller all green variety! I have had no success yet, though. The only way to get more plants looking the same as the mama plant is to use the baby plants on the stolons." I'll add the link to this web site. There is a lot of great spider plant information on there. If you look at the bottom of the page in the "facts" section, you will see the information above. I hope this helps! Here is a link that might be useful: Spider Plant Link...See MoreRooted shoot from Peaches N Cream / variegated
Comments (7)I have found this to happen on variegated plants. I have a duranta, that is green and yellow variegated. Sometimes an all green, or all yellow branch will come off of it. I also have a variegated rubber tree, that will also send up all green , non-variegated branches. If you were to root these, there would never be any variegation on that plant. Right now the variegated rubber tree has 1 branch with 1 side all green, and the other side all variegated. I left this one, but the others are cut off to promote the variegated growth.....See Moresnake plant: how to nuture a young shoot that lost its root?
Comments (11)Thx again for your expertise pirate_girl. Ok, so this morning, I saw that my wee shoot (exactly as pictured above) had a rotten tip, even though the soil I put it in -- while I was learning what to do next -- was very dry. So I took it to a neighborhood plant master and got some pumice and more advice. So here's my current tactics: It's a hot sunny day here, so I'm drying out a pumice/potting soil mix on a baking tray in the sun. I trimmed off the tiny rotten tip and cut the rest of the shoot into thirds. Each of the new pieces has far more base surface area than the tip pictured in my original shoot. I'm keeping track of which way is "up" for these cuttings. I've made three small, high-drainage mini-pots out of plastic rubbermaid cups I had around. The drainage holes are for the future. I won't be watering them for quite some time. I intend to put the three shoot cuttings into the dried-out pumice/potting mix and leave them be. I sure hope the sun-baking and increased root surface area is enough to prevent rot. I don't know what else I could do to prevent rot. So that's my plan for now. Any comments are welcome and appreciated....See Moredufflebag2002
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