Mutant plants!
@OpinionatedLady (5965)
United States
May 7, 2011 5:06pm CST
Now this actually is from a few weeks ago and I took the pictures and wanted to post it but some how forgot. I was looking through my photos and found them and remembered
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Last fall I planted over 100 bulbs in my new flower boxes that hubby put in. I had bought a huge bag of 50 red tulips (may favorite by the way) and planted these all over the place. SO it is spring and they came up nice and clean. All where perfect except for two plants. They are mutants
. One of them has two flower heads while the other has 3! I thought they where so cool looking and just wonders of the spring for sure. Thought I would share this and was wondering if it was just me who grew mutant tulips.
I got one up here but do not know how to get a second one up...
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Last fall I planted over 100 bulbs in my new flower boxes that hubby put in. I had bought a huge bag of 50 red tulips (may favorite by the way) and planted these all over the place. SO it is spring and they came up nice and clean. All where perfect except for two plants. They are mutants. One of them has two flower heads while the other has 3! I thought they where so cool looking and just wonders of the spring for sure. Thought I would share this and was wondering if it was just me who grew mutant tulips.
I got one up here but do not know how to get a second one up...1 person likes this
5 responses
@celticeagle (168721)
• Boise, Idaho
9 May 11
You probably won't get another one of them. When I was still with my husband and planting a garden every Spring we happened to plant the english cucumbers next to the melons. We got a mix. Took it to the annex where they answer questions about such thing in the area. They were perplexed.
@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
9 May 11
hi I did that one time and it was sure different. I liked it but my husband and kids did not. Sort of a sweet slighly cucumberish flavor to the melon. also back on the farm my mom tended this sprout of an apple tree and it bore fruit but it was below the graft so the apples were sized like cranberries but had a sweet apple taste when ripe like crab
apples. they did make pretty jelly but you had to cut down on the sugar as they were already pretty sweet.
@celticeagle (168721)
• Boise, Idaho
9 May 11
I did try to eat some and it was not real good. Didn't save any seeds but did give the thing to the annex and they were trying different things. It was interesting. I believe they told us the same as what you said.
@OpinionatedLady (5965)
• United States
9 May 11
Well cucumbers and melons are relatives so there must have been some type of cross pollination..very interesting. Did you try eating any of them? Did they taste good? Did you keep any seeds to try to replant? Am I asking too many questions?
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@snyderblog (82)
• United States
9 May 11
I think that is the coolest thing. It has been a wierd plant year for us as well. I have some plants taht don't come up every year and there is 2 in my yard that shouldn't have come back that have come back even bigger and better than they ever have. This year was horribly cold and wet too. I was surprised. Mother Nature at her best.
@OpinionatedLady (5965)
• United States
10 May 11
Yeah we had more rain this year then I can ever remember. My poor flower beds half washed away with all of the flooding on my yard. SO many of my plants washed away but I am happy to say some actually are starting to come back. Not all my Blue berry and Honey berry bushes have grown in but I am hoping enough have to make a good year of it.
@webeishere (36313)
• United States
8 May 11
Not flowers but we have one area we always plant a
cherry tomato plant and each year we have about
10 new plants pop up from dropped seeds etc from the previous year.
HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB!!~
@OpinionatedLady (5965)
• United States
8 May 11
The cherry tomatoes are prolific! My dad used to feed the split ones to the turkeys we had when I was small. The summer after they where gone the pen they had been kept in was a jungle of cherry tomatoes!
@chinchoy (191)
• Hong Kong
8 May 11
Well, I have not seen this before. I didn't plant that many tulips back when I have a garden to plant things.
May be you get a genetic breakthrough somewhere here? Think about it, 3-headed tulips, if you can get them all grow 3 flower heads, wouldn't it be nice? Take good care of it, harvest the bulbs and see if you get the same next season. It may be a new breed that would be named after you.
lol that would be cool@OpinionatedLady (5965)
• United States
9 May 11
Wow that was a very hardy cineraria! DId you keep any of the seeds to try to replant?
