shauden Posted February 2, 2015 Report Share Posted February 2, 2015 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrCompletion Posted February 2, 2015 Report Share Posted February 2, 2015 Variegation 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
max_headroom Posted February 2, 2015 Report Share Posted February 2, 2015 Guess only...some kind of mould Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrCompletion Posted February 2, 2015 Report Share Posted February 2, 2015 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Reynolds Posted February 3, 2015 Report Share Posted February 3, 2015 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrCompletion Posted February 3, 2015 Report Share Posted February 3, 2015 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Reynolds Posted February 3, 2015 Report Share Posted February 3, 2015 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calo Posted February 5, 2015 Report Share Posted February 5, 2015 I've had this a few times, I always thought it was nutrient burn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
louise Posted February 5, 2015 Report Share Posted February 5, 2015 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... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank Reynolds Posted February 5, 2015 Report Share Posted February 5, 2015 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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