Friday, April 11, 2025

Tolumnia 'Peppered Sunlight' --- Is it good enough?



Tolumnia 'Peppered Sunlight'


                        The last story introduced a Tolumnia with potential for promotion. 


                         Now we have a name that could help ---  'Peppered Sunlight'.  The name came from Kerri.  I like it.  It describes speckled bright yellow.


                           This plant is a one-in-four thousand find.  It has good characteristics.  It has vigor and high bud count --- eight flowers per spike.


                            It is one of those rare double spikes per fan --- three in 11,000.  Nobody knows if this double spike is culture or genetic.  Nobody knows if the double spike would carry through in the tissue culture process?  The flower stem is strong and thick.  The flower stem is very tall, but acceptable.


                            Is this 'Peppered Sunlight' worth entering it into tissue culture?


                            If I had a thousand of these, would they be valuable?





                            


 

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

Is this pretty enough?


                 


                 This Tolumnia has several special traits, but is it pretty enough to be selected for tissue culture production?


                   Propagation by tissue culture is very expensive and time consuming so only the most promising clones should be selected for this effort.


                    If this were a named variety and promoted as a very special small flowering houseplant, would customers buy it because it is stunning?