New Variegated Sport? Black Tie Affair
Hyn Patty, Western NC Mountains (USA)
7 years ago
I need to check the AVSA's First Class list but I might have a new variegated sport. I put down leaves of Black Tie Affair last autumn and got a variegated baby! Then my weather warmed up and it lost it's variegation as they often do. I took off the two leaves that had some white on them and put them down in March to see if it could propagate it for a second generation. So these are the babies coming up as of today, June 26th. So far, very promising that these will also be variegated.
Now the real lesson in patience kicks in. I have to WAIT and see if these bloom true to the original parent which is a deep burgundy flower with purple fantasy and a white geneva edge on slightly ruffled flowers. A real knockout even before you add variegated leaves, but some fantasy flowers have a bad habit of not always passing the fantasy traits onto their off spring. Here's hoping!
If they do not, the plant may still have some value for hybridizing to me so we'll see.
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