Joined: 03 Mar 2010 Posts: 1503 Location: Schoten (Antwerp), Belgium
Posted: Sat 18 Sep, 2010 9:46 am
A couple of weeks ago I planted some valencia orange seeds, which are now starting to germinate. Today I noticed a seedling that is all white. Could this be a variegated seedling or is it albino? If it's an albino it will probably die soon...
Joined: 16 Nov 2007 Posts: 790 Location: Bergerac, France.
Posted: Fri 24 Sep, 2010 8:36 am
Crossing has nothing to do with variegation.
Variegated plants are chimeras.
As a seedling is made from one cell we might no be able to get a variegated plant out of a seed.
But we can imagine a mutation happening in one cell of the first meristem(s) leading to a variegated seedling. In fact few people have claimed that they obtain variegated seedlings.