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Cindy, you can't a get a job---then who would make us laugh so much???
Bill, those pictures are amazing.....the flowers are fantastic--the colors, and the quality of the pics......love them! How many MegaPixels is your camera???? I'm saving for a good one now so I have it to take to the ocean.
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Bill, your petunias are stunning, I have a question. I know this is impossible but last year when cleaning up my containers I had one window box of petunias that were still blooming so I brought it into my greenhouse and watered it about oh, twice in the winter. The pets never died so I left them and they bloomed again this spring. Also I had two kinds of pets last year the lacy large single pale purple dark veined, and some fushia single small petunias. Now in that container I seem to have got a mix of the two, and from the seeds I kept, (I'm frugal) I have some wonderful variegated purples with white edges..have they hybrided? How did they live and bloom more than a season? how can I post pictures?
OOPs that's more than one question, sorry.
PL ok I figured out the picture part (maybe???), just two questions. If I've committed some horrible faux pas, please forgive.....
* * * * Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. -- Brendan Gill Plants: 12 | From: Michigan | Registered: Jun 2004
| Seeded: 216.65.171.167
* * * * Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. -- Brendan Gill Plants: 12 | From: Michigan | Registered: Jun 2004
| Seeded: 216.65.171.167
quote:Originally posted by petunialover: [QB] I brought it into my greenhouse and watered it about oh, twice in the winter. The pets never died so I left them and they bloomed again this spring.
Hi PL! There are a few biennial Petunias but they are fairly uncommon. If the conditions in your greenhouse (heated?) were favorable for the Petunias, it is possible for even annual varieties to have survived to bloom again.
quote: Now in that container I seem to have got a mix of the two, and from the seeds I kept, (I'm frugal) I have some wonderful variegated purples with white edges..have they hybrided?
Petunias will cross-pollinate and hybridize themselves. From the photo I can't tell for sure, but it looks like there are both variegated and non-variegated flowers on the same plant. (Is that the case?) I'm not positive at all, but it seems that for it to be a true hybrid all the flowers would be the same. The seedlings produced by this particular plant could easily be a hybrid though.
You've got a very cool Petunia regardless! If it was mine, I'd tell everyone that I created my own "mutant Petunia" and let them wonder....
* * * * Plants: 11227 | From: Cedar Hill Washington | Registered: Aug 2002
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I am planning to save the seeds from the best of the white edged variety to grow next year. I have mixed the colors in all my boxes this year, next year I will be more scientific about it. Bill, I plan to say they are a new variety, (oh baaad me!)
The ones I have that are a mix of the fushia and light purple/dark veining, I am going to save seeds from that plant, but the best bloom is gone, Alas!
And since I wrote this my grlfriend in Seattle told me her petunias overwintered too. My "greenhouse" is a sunroom attached tomy house, I left both florescent and incandescent lights in there 24 hours a day. I suppose that affected the petunia, but I know my friend didn't care for hers.
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