This is Trailing Psycholeus. I was amazed at the various pattern that emerged on the same plant.
Some were solid, others patterned, others had leaves split half & half.
I guess that's how it got its name - PSYCHO - it has multiple personalities!
LOL!
Nancy
Very interesting!
that is cool! Very colorful would be nice in a sunny window in january to remind you that spring will come and it will warm up!
Mine did that last year too..
This year I got>
that is the neatest thing....I like it looks like a party in progress!
how neat
Love it.
Neat!
Wow, Nancy! Your "Trailing Psycholeus' looks just like the coleus called 'Careless Love'. It is amazing to get all those variations on one plant ...
PV
are those sports?
LOL!
NO!!! REALLY!!!
yeah I would think so... would keep them for sure
DGer wrote to say those ARE sports.
I wonder if a sport continues with the coloring it has or reverts to the parent.
I'd imagine it would continue.
I'd also be curious as to just how many sports a coleus can produce once it starts going off track or if it just produces the same sport repeatedly.
DD says any verigated plant is that way due to a virus ,introduced by the hybredizer to make it verigate.
When the virus works its way out of the plant the verigation ends.
I'm not sure this applies to coleus sports or not.
A DG person from long ago, drdon, also subscribed to the virus theory.
Just talked to DD ,She says yes a virus is introduced but not necessarily.
So we re back where we started.
I have taken a cutting from the only full grown Watermelon Sport thats living.
I just want to see what happens.
I think Dale thegardner answered the question on sportage but I'm too lazy to search.
OH! I had no idea what you were talking about, JoAnn!
I never heard the word "sport" before in regard to plants.
This was one of the coleus I purchased from Rosy Dawn thru the co-op here at DG.
Nancy
My RD co-op coleus Trailing Psycoleus has sported like yours.
I have taken in a sport from Watermelon.
Very interesting. Wish the print was a lot larger.
you can click the magnifying glass to zoom in
I did find it through Google. Thanks!
the next time I run into him I am going to buy a copy
Ray's book is a good value. I hope he is saving up photos so that he can make the next one include more varieties.
Electric Lime, one of my favorites>
I was kicking myself in the butt for not buying it when I went to Atlock and met him last year
About sports - I would shy away from the virus theory. Virus' produce random colors, not all the sports I have seen have the broken colors in their leaves - like Chato>
Some sports are stable in leaf color - a trait I would guess that is new genes.
The Red Delicious apple was an odd branch on an orchard tree - it is very stable genetically speaking.
This sport stayed stable>
pretty one too
I took a cutting from a Watermelon sport I planted this spring.
Just for kicks to see what happens.
Dale- love electric lime too.Its doing well inside for cuttings this winter.
Some parents have given up growing vigerous stems so my projections for lots of plants is getting pulled back.
Coleus is a greenhouse plant in the the lower 48 states, if you want them as a perennial.
Glennis>
Glennis is great
ok books? coleus sports? you all lost me....there for a second I thought my coleus was playing soccer or something when I wasn't looking....LOL I learn something new everyday!
