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Kaleidochrome has split personalities

8 years ago

Don't mind my weeds... I have been busy putting in new beds between raindrops :)

2nd year in, and what started as a perfectly normal hosta is now 3 different eyes. One is faintly streaked, one still seems like it should, and one may be sporting to Vuvuzela.

I'm beginning to think there is something in the soil here, Lolz. I was told Kaleidochrome was a fairly stable streaker (as streakers go). I was half expecting this one to behave :/

I'm not sure I even want to mess with it just yet. I would like to attempt a few crosses, if I can. If I do, I think I will slice the sport off and leave the rest intact.

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garyz6ohio

8 years ago

I lost mine this Spring, but replaced it with this one a couple of weeks ago.

Here's a last year's seedling from the original

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mac48025 ( SE michigan)
8 years ago
Yours had a lot more variegation than mine. Mine has been very slow to establish. In its 3rd year now and just starting to grow. I think you should remove your eye that is the most colorful and send it to me ;) It was worth a try! Here's mine.
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smorz
Original Author
8 years ago
All our plants seem quite different just yet. I think mine was a small single eye division from a mature plant from a backyard hobbyist sale. It seems my local purchases take off much faster than mail order hosta?

Kaleidochrome is pretty much the opposite of everything I like in a hosta... When I saw it and decided I might grow fond of it, eventually. But figured I'd see how it takes pollen and picks up other traits.
garyz6ohio
8 years ago
Smorz, Are you sure yours is a Kaleidochrome? Could it possibly be a Kaleidoscope? What brings this to mind are the petioles on yours as compared to mine and Mac's and granted ours are younger but the leaf shape seems to be a bit different also.
smorz
Original Author
8 years ago
Yanno Gary, I don't know? Last year it had actually regressed a bit before leaping so it did look more like yours, then. But I never had either, in my gardens before. And I can't remember the differences between the two maturer ones I have seen, because I guess I just didn't pay attention Lolz.

It does say in the HL the leaves widen as it matures... More Montana like than longpipes like. Not a lick of natural white streaks in mine... Some yellow has turned white where sun dapples in. But the pictures have me wondering.

Does anyone who has mature Kaleidochrome or Kaleidoscope have any input, maybe... Or better yet, pics?
ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
8 years ago
second pic ..... cant tell a thing anything from too much sunshine ...

they are all the same.. just in various stages of going toward the white center ...

obviously .. to me anyway ... highly unstable.. and repeated digging will be necessary to keep it away from the white center..

do you all see the potential for the white center in all the pix???

ken
smorz
Original Author
8 years ago
last modified: 8 years ago
Thank you Ken... that makes sense. I'm used to and expect solids off a streaker. I guess I could appreciate this one a little more. :) at least until I have 3 or so. Lolz

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