Half Yellow Half Green Leaf?

[shauden]

I just honestly don't understand what or why it did this but 3/5 of the leaf is yellow with green flecks and the other 2/5 is normal green. It has stumped me. Can anyone shed some light?

 

[MrCompletion]

Variegation

[max_headroom]

Guess only...some kind of mould

[MrCompletion]

It's a chimera gene. Plants that are cross bred get this. It's not a canna specific thing. I've had it before. Usually in early stages of veg. As I said earlier Google "Variegation" there's a tonne of information on it. In fact it's a bit of a welcoming trait to some ornamental growers. In my cases and if it is indeed the same thing it's nothing to worry about.

[Frank Reynolds]

Looks variegated!! Might be a industry in the future for nice variagated cuttings

 

 

I thought a chimera was when two plants are grafted and then somehow at the graft line some cells from both plants are pushed and you suddenly have this deformed as fuck plant. Although i only have experience with Cacti chimeras. 

[MrCompletion]

Check it out on Wikipedia. Damn app won't let me paste a link. Not saying it 100% is but the symptoms and description lead that way. Also if you google "cannabis leaf half green half yellow" it leads to the same thing in majority cases.

 

But I'm no botanist, expert, model citizen or herbivor.

[Frank Reynolds]

All good, this is the only chimera i've heard of, very ratre inthe cacti world only done by grafting two together and then like a 1 in a million chance.

 

http://www.teratopia.de/hylo-chimera01.jpg

 

Two grafted cacti form to create one big WTF

[Calo]

I've had this a few times, I always thought it was nutrient burn

[louise]

Nothing to do with nutrient burn.

 

I've experienced chimeras in budgies, in that case 2 zygotes fuse to create one bird that expresses both base colours (white base on one side and yellow base on the other).

 

Net pic for eg.

 

AFAIK there are a number of ways the pigment can be blocked to produce variegation, but I don't think it's the same mechanism Frank or I am thinking of...

 

 

 

[Frank Reynolds]

I may be wrong re technical definition. As i've only come across it in the cacti world and that may just be a common term referring to that certain process