Lonestar Twilight
terrilou
7 years ago
This is a young plant but covered in bloom. In fact, I removed some of the bloomstalks for fear it will bloom itself to death.
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Comments (82)Sorry to jump in here, but I find the topic of stability very interesting. I, too, have felt like there is a greater increase in unstable modern varieties compared to vintage violets. I think some of that can be blamed on hybridizers rushing their new hybrids to market, but I think it's also an illusion caused by other factors: The internet has made it possible for violet collectors to share pictures of and discuss their violets with growers all over the world. Where now, we can do a quick search and find 30 different pictures of a variety, we had to rely on sketchy written descriptions for most violets in the past. It's totally possible for a violet to loosely match it's written description, even when it doesn't really look like it was supposed to. I think it's possible a lot of the vintage violets were as unstable as modern violets, it was simply that we didn't have numerous pictures to compare to, so we didn't realize as often that something about our plants was a little bit off. Along with making it easier to find and compare photos, the internet makes trading violets much faster and easier. When we had to rely on ordering from catalogs and from vendors at shows, we were only getting a very limited cross-section of the actual number of violets being produced. By the time a vendor has packed up and taken their stock to a show, they've probably only loaded the most popular and/or most reliable varieties (nobody brings their ugly plants to a sales table!). So, by default, less stable, less reliable varieties were never in circulation as much as the more stable varieties. With the internet, violets can circulate further, faster and with greater ease. More people "see" a variety and want it, prompting a greater number of initial purchases and immediately putting a greater number of that particular variety in circulation. That means that rather than naturally falling out of circulation, unstable varieties end up being passed around just as much as the reliable varieties. There is also a greater degree of sharing. Hybridizers are not just discussing their new plants and seedlings as soon as they begin to bloom, they're sharing pictures. A lot of times, by the time a plant has been through three generations of testing, there are already fanciers who have added that variety to their wishlist and are anxiously awaiting it. In the past, varieties might have been tested over multiple generations before being circulated at all. Now, I think three is the bare minimum for a lot of varieties and since the demand is there, they begin circulating afterward that much faster. Finally, I think that the internet has made the hobby more accessible to casual fanciers--the people who are not showing, not hybridizing, not really striving to grow "perfect" plants; they're just growing plants they like, trading leaves, and sharing photos online. All that is great--I LOVE that new people are entering the hobby--but, I think they, as a whole tend to amass collections not based on great growing traits, but just on their personal preferences. So, they're not culling varieties that are prone to sporting, have bad growth formations, drop blossoms early, grow slowly, etc. and they trade more freely than show growers, too, so they're passing those undesirable varieties around a lot more. Just my two cents, but I don't believe modern varieties actually are less stable than vintage. I just think that the vintage varieties still in circulation have withstood the test of time and the modern varieties are somewhat untested....See MoreNew photo of Iceberg - April, 2015
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