New Colors of Spring💗

The image is a mutant of the flower color of Viola soloria which bloomed for the first time this year.

The original parent is a gardening variety called Freckles (meaning of freckles), and originally there are countless purple dots on the petals of the white background.

She is a strange child, but she is quite beautiful and my favorite violet.

While the variety is blooming with spilled seeds, I found a flower color that I had never seen until last year!

It is light purple and Hana is slightly larger than other varieties.

Originally in our house, Freckles has the characteristic that individuals with different flower colors are easy to come out if you repeat the seedlings for generations, and until now, there are no dots and the color of the petals is slightly light blue Hana individuals (temporary name is Aqua), and in the year before last, one Hana bloomed in half vertically on a white background and two purple blooming individuals, but this appearance of light purple was quite surprising, I was surprised when I found it.

If there are dots on this light purple petal, it will be a variant-derived variety called Dark Freckles, which is already known, and the appearance rate is low if it is from Freckles which is quite rare and circulating in Japan.

It seems that it is not so because there is an image on the seed bag of the mix in foreign countries, but general sales in Japan should not be almost yet.

Actually, I already have a dark fleckles that emerged from a sororia mix that I previously purchased from a foreign seed company's seed bag through a private import agency, but since it is an important thing personally, it is isolated in a fairly distant place on the premises to prevent crossbreeding. And in the area where the new color Hana grew this time, I bought it from a home improvement store a long time ago, and only one stock grew in large quantities over the years.

In other words, originally it should not have been of a system that could have produced Dark Freckles.

Even Dark Freckles are still rare in Japan, but it is not surprising that Hana, who was born with no dots, will emerge from the premises of my home...

If we were to give it a name, should we call it "Dark Freckles Less" because it is a lost (less) individual with dots of Dark Freckles?

It sounds like a tongue twister...

Moreover, two of these flower-colored plants are growing now. Probably they are seeds that fell from the same pods.

There is also a feeling that I want to replant it in a pot and cherish it and grow it, but it is not uncommon for the plant to wither in the spring when it is cultivated in pots due to the severe cold of winter.

However, if I can manage it carefully, there is a way to promote it.

In the case of violets, if it is a seed of the fruit attached to the bloomed Hana, even if Hana different from the parent sometimes blooms, it inherits exactly the same characteristics as the parent strain "Seeds taken from the fruit of the closed Hana" are collected and sown immediately in the soil.

However, pansies and violas do not have closed Hana fruits in the process of improvement and all bloom as Hana, so it does not apply... Commercial seeds of pansies and violas are old varieties that have been repeatedly selected and fixed by generations when Mericron technology was not yet established.

Almost all types of violets can take out seeds before the pods explode if the pods of the fruits face directly above.

Seeds that are collected and dried and stored become dormant, and have the property of sleeping in the ground for many years until germination conditions are optimal.The same is true for commercially available violet seeds, if the dormant type is still shallow, it can germinate if soaked in a liquid dissolved in gibberellin and subjected to dormant breakthrough treatment, but if it is a seed of a deep sleeping odor violet, even if gibberellin powder is sprinkled on the seeds and sown, the germination rate does not necessarily increase...

Sororia bears a large shell-shaped closed Hana fruit from the ground late in the fall, so before the pods of this new color pop, I will split the pods and collect seeds and sow them in a pot prepared in advance.At least I pray that it is not an individual that is difficult to produce closed Hana fruits like other varieties...

Soloria's gardening varieties have various characteristics of flower colors and petal shapes and patterns, and some varieties are derived from crossbreeding with different species, and it is possible to crossbreed with odor violets that should be quite far away, so it is probably derived from crossbreeding There is even a variety called apricot that is indistinguishable from Sulphrere. I ordered it because it was listed in a foreign catalog as a variety of Soloria, but unfortunately I let it go because I was concerned about crossbreeding with my home's Sulphrere because it was too similar to Sulphrere.

In the area that appeared this time, there are various odor violets blooming nearby, but the possibility of crossing with that may not be denied...

It depends on the luck of the next few years whether I can leave the flower color of this rather rare existence... I am also old and my body is not strong, so how many years can I go out with this Hana...

Previously, individuals with variegated patterns appeared on the leaves. The variegated genes of the odor violet did not stabilize and disappeared, and the fleckles without dots on the white petal somehow did not disappear, but it did not grow easily... The plant that bloomed vertically also bloomed only in one purple flower after that year. In other plants, some variegated branches and yellow-green leaves also appear and lose...

Violets sororia and odor violets have large varieties and crossbreeds here and there on the site, and there are many insects that pollinate pollen because there is a large forest next door. Also, ants carry seeds to the best place for germination and growth, and it is easy to grow clumps, so if you like the soil and environment here, you will grow a lot of seedlings, so the probability of appearance of such mutants is sometimes relatively high. I think.

In the past, hybrids of local wild blue violets and odor violets can repeat generations, and now the genes are inherited to each odor violet hybrid individual, and I posted an image before, although the characteristics of the strain are close to the blue violet, Hana blooms is a characteristic of the odor violet I was able to confirm this year.

However, in cold regions where winter is severe, whether that rare thing will remain forever is "luck."

How many times have I been discouraged by finding and disappearing mutations including other types of Hana?

If even a new variety candidate that can be left to nature is in such a state, it will surely take at least 10 years for individuals and seed companies who are making new varieties by making full use of technology in earnest.

Considering that, I am grateful that a new color came out from Hana that can leave the fruit of closed Hana and the characteristics of Hana that have definitely changed.

After that, if you can provide seeds to some extent because you belong to a certain violet lovers' association, you can entrust it to the next generation of violet lovers by transferring seeds, and if you can enjoy this Hana by spreading distribution to the general public in the future, if possible, Miraie who does not know yet may be able to realize the birth of this new flower color with joy, and the next generation of violet lovers who may inherit the proliferation I am thinking.