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| Sinningia 'Cindy-ella' |
Sinningia ‘Cindy-ella’ is a plant I learned about some 40 years ago. In the house plant boom of the 70's, plant shops sprang up on every street corner. Gesneriads were among the hundreds of collector plants that people looked for. Mini Sinningias were produced as rapidly as possible.
S. ‘Cindy-ella’ was one that came true from seed which made it easily producible. The original hybrid was S. ‘Cindy’, a cross between concinna and eumorpha. Since ‘Cindy’ was sterile it was doomed to slow propagation by division, tip cuttings and leaf rooting.
Through the use of the mutation chemical, colchicine, a tetraploid version was created which restored fertility. Through this particular technique, the seed produced by self-pollinating ‘Cindy-ella’ are identical to the parent. A seed pod may have 40 – 60 seed.
‘Cindy-ella’ flowers easily and has pretty, slipper-shaped, spotted flowers. It’s a good one.
Will it return from the past?
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ReplyDeleteI looked thru my seeds in the Refrigerator. I have never grown this one but do have seeds I was planning on eventually using. So I will be planting some this week. When I acquired Cindy Ella Seeds I had no idea they would bloom true from seed.
ReplyDeleteI grew 'Cindy-ella' and should have it again.
ReplyDeletePlease grow your seed and see how nice it can be. Maybe you can self-pollinate it and get some seed for all of us?
I've returned home from the Gesneriad convention with 30 new Primulina hybrids. Great progress is being made.
I hope to be able to go to the convention one day. I’ve been busy getting things together to try Home Tissue Culture on a couple mini and Micro Sinningia. There was an interesting study from 2023 that I read recently about tissue culture on Mini Sinningia. I remember it was a Fu’s Hybrid. But I would have to go look at which one. While looking for Micro or mini that bloom true from seed. Dale Martens said ( Sinningia 'Isabelle' by Rebecca Gmucs comes true from seed because she spent quite a few years making that happen. When used as a parent, often the seedlings nearly all look alike, lots of pink dots. Is is a smaller miniature, but not a micro) Have you even grown Isabelle? I’m going to try to find it or seed from it.
DeleteI don't remember having 'Isabella' but it could be what we ae looking for.
ReplyDeleteWe need self fertile that give seedlings with high bud count. They don't have to look alike, just not plants with two flowers.
Dale Martins says she has it and plans to self cross for seed this fall. Also someone claimed that Dollbaby and either Orange Zinger Or Super Orange also come true from seed.
ReplyDeleteAnother that self pollinates and makes almost identical offspring is Jung’s White Crown
ReplyDeleteSounds good. I will need seed of all of these.
ReplyDeleteI need to be in production of any mini Sinningia that's available.