Ti plants from seed

[MattyB]

In Spring of '07 Jerry Andersen was nice enough to let me collect some seeds from a couple of his Ti plants in Hawaii. Here's a pictorial of how the offspring can vary and not always be true to type.

Here's mother plant #1

It's the upper plant with the mostly green leaves

And here's some of the offspring from it's seed:

This one looks pretty similar to the mother

Same plant

Same plant again showing the undersides which are more red than the tops

[MattyB]

Here's another plant from Mother Plant #1

Skinnier leaves this time

same plant

[MattyB]

Here's the Mother Plant #2 from Jerry's:

Beautiful wide, deep red leaves

Here's some of the offspring from it's seed:

This first plant is lookin' really good! I love this one. It's the slowest grower.

This second plant has the wide leaves but is both green and red colored.

Same plant showing the intense red undersides.

That's it. Hope you enjoyed.

Oh yeah, and thanks Jerry!

[joe_OC]

Pretty cool Matt! Haven't seen ppl successfully germinate ti's before. Always have seen it done from tissue culture to get exact offspring.

[MattyB]

Joe I haven't seen people abbreviate the word "people" just to save themselves from haveing to type "e" "o" "e". There's a first for everything.

[joe_OC]

NO?! That's very common in my world...Acronyms for EVERYTHING

[MattyB]

AFE

[Al in Kona]

LOL

[Walter John]

RON

[FRITO]

OMG

[LJG]

Matt I have been growing this one for a few years. It does great through winter in SoCal. Snails love Ti's, but they REALLY love this one.

This first plant is lookin' really good! I love this one. It's the slowest grower.