r/VariegatedPlants

3000 Seedlings Grown, One Variegated Pea.

For context, I was searching for a variegated pea seedling (Pisum sativum) by growing out large numbers of seedlings in trays until one shown promise. When I first noticed the light green/yellow streaks, it had the first two sets of leaves. I waited a week to see if the new growth also had the variegation, and those leaves did. It's not super eye-catching, but it's good enough considering the sheer amount of seedlings I've sorted through over the last year.

What inspired me to do this is seeing some specimens online with variegated leaves, and the apparent difficulty in keeping variegated peas alive. With accounts of pests eating them, sunburn, etc. I personally would have liked to get a few seeds from charitable individuals, but as stated before, these plants tend to expire before doing so. Making my effort to brute force obtaining one the best avenue I can think of.

So far, this little guy is doing fine in a sunny windowsill. And has been growing at a normal rate, no apparent issues have arisen. If all goes to plan, I should get some seeds just over a month from now. And then I can plant a portion of those seeds to see if it's heritable, and get more stock to work with if it is.

u/Mortal_Mantis — 3 days ago

I just love cosmic variegation on African Violets! Space Fairy (ShN - Kosmicheskaya Feya): Semi-double white flower on a beautiful variegated rosette, leaves in bright white-yellow cosmic variegation.

u/stickersforthought — 4 days ago

variegated not nutrients or pest prob right??!?!

got some clones recently and while I was repotting I noticed some leaves that looked variegated, my bf thought it might be nutrients or something but I think it's variegation!!

u/Sufficient_Rip6807 — 4 days ago

Can Daily X-Rays Create Insane New Variegation? (Experiment Idea)

Here’s the crazy idea I can’t stop thinking about (this is what happens when my shower thoughts and stoner thoughts intersect):

What if you took a healthy plant, gave it a low-dose X-ray every day for a few weeks/months while it’s growing and flowering, then let it go to seed? Could the cumulative radiation stress trigger interesting mutations, leading to variegated babies in the next generation?

I know mutation breeding is a real thing (scientists use gamma rays and X-rays on seeds all the time to create new cultivars), but I’ve never seen anyone talk about doing gentle, repeated exposures on a living mother plant instead of blasting seeds once at a high dose.

Pros I’m hoping for:

~Potentially novel variegation patterns not seen in normal breeding

~Could work on species that are hard to tissue culture

~Mad scientist vibes while I water my plants

Obvious concerns:

~Will it just stress/kill the plant or reduce seed viability?

~Is the dose from diagnostic X-rays even enough to matter?

~Safety/logistics (I’m not building a home irradiator, don’t worry lol)

Has anyone here tried anything even remotely like this? Or do you know of any studies/papers on low-dose chronic radiation for inducing desirable mutations in ornamentals?

Drop your thoughts, horror stories, or better ideas below! I’m genuinely curious if this is completely stupid or a viable method of inducing variegation.

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u/QuarticMessy — 5 days ago
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Are firefly petunias prone to reversion? I bought a pink flared one earlier this year. Now it’s solid white

Three separate plants with three different care regimens (neglect mainly). All of them reverted to solid white

u/Calathea_Murrderer — 8 days ago
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One of my favorites!

One of my favorite Lophophor williamsii ‘s!

I got this plant about 4 years ago when it was only around 4 cm in diameter and sitting on a dead grafting stock.

Back then, I immediately regraft it onto a new, stronger stock - and now it‘s almost the size of a coconut!

Enjoy it!

Best regards from Germany!

Martin

u/moonshine-cactus — 10 days ago

Variegated Gerber Daisy

Found this variegated ‘Jaguar Yellow’ in a flat of normal ones at the nursery I work at.

u/-Mullet-Man- — 11 days ago

A small peek into my personal collection

Pic 1&2: Actinidia arguta (kiwi berry) 'Hokey Pokey'

3&4: Hydrangea serrata 'Euphoria pink' and its sport

5: Euphorbia pulcherrima 'Tapestry'

6: tomato 'Zuckertraube'

7: Hippeastrum reticulatum hybrid seedling, no name yet

8: tomato 'Appleberry red'

9: olea europaea

10: Poncirus trifoliata variegata, hardy orange

11: yellow variegated Satsuma mandarin 'Owari'

12: Hippeastrum hybrid (working name sonatini black-red)

13&14: just a lil spot variegation in my strawberry breeding work

15&16: Dionaea 'Spotty'

17: Tropaeolum seedling with super light leaf, bordering Aurea territory

18: golden leaf tomato

19: Agapanthus 'Black magic' variegated

20: yet another 'Zuckertraube' tomato seedling

u/FranaPlanta — 10 days ago
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What should I do with my Albo pothos?

Found this bad boy at my local Walmart for $15. It has incredible fenestration/variegations that were impossible to pass up, despite obvious leggings/damage. Assuming that my goal is to maximize maturity/variegation coming back, should I trim the longer leggy vine(s) node for node, propagate them, and then replant them in the same pot, or should I pin the nodes down to the soil, by spiraling the vine around the cuttings inside the pot? Second question, should I just repot the whole thing altogether? I know I’m gonna have to do something pretty drastic to the vine to make her (and hopefully her kids) bushy again. The substrate it’s in seems to have fine drainage, and it is also in a self-watering pot. Any advice, criticisms or directions? TIA!

u/BreathCompetitive117 — 10 days ago

Highly variegated monstera Thai con.

I have never had such a variegated leaf on any of my Thai constellations 🤔 I wonder if it will continue producing highly variegated leaves 👀

u/ZeQueenCate — 10 days ago
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is this a mint monstera/white monster

picked up a thai constellation on fb market place, and the man selling it offered me this mint monstera for 20 bc of the sun damage. is it a mint? i kind of thought it was because of the smaller leaves but im second guessing myself now lol.

u/crispycaprisuns — 12 days ago