Re: [Sansevierias] S. 'Black Jack' and Superba

At 03:16 PM 4/5/2014, you wrote:
>
>
>Fooling with chemicals, maybe, but I understand 
>for every standard size trifasciata variety (for 
>example 'compacta'), there is the possibility of 
>an equivalent color pattern in the Futura and Hahnii classes.


Oh certainly a possibility, and the higher the 
number of propagations, the greater chance that 
something will show up. But consider that 
trifasciata laurentii was for many years the most 
popular houseplant in the USA due to 
indestructibility and being large enough to make 
a statement, it was grown in lets say football 
field sized areas in places like Apopka Florida, 
and distributed all over the USA. and how FEW 
aberrations did it produce left to its own 
devices?  let's say 75 years go by and you get a 
Bantel's Sensation and some hahnii things. out of MILLIONS of plants.
now suddenly all I am saying is hardly a month 
goes by that something NEW AND DIFFERENT does not show up.

hermine

>  Many of these color patterns have already 
> shown up.The Futuras and the Hahnii's tend to 
> have wider leaves than their standard sized 
> cousins.  Chemical treatments will never 
> produce a color pattern that mother nature 
> herself can't produce given sufficient time. 
> Scientists have introduced genes to make 
> thornless blackberries and the like, but I 
> don't equate this with chemical treatment of 
> sansevieria rhizomes to produce variegated plants.
>Also, the sudden appearance of a number of 
>Florica designed Futuras might have something to 
>do with the time involved to raise, by tissue 
>culture, the number of plants it takes to supply 
>all the Lowes and Home Depots, and other plant 
>places around the country and all in time for 
>Spring The Mrs. and I visited Costa Rica a few 
>years ago, and we saw vast acreages devoted to 
>shade cloth where various plants are produced en 
>masse for export.  Agriculture is a very big industry in C.R.
>Mike
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Hermine Stover <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Sent: Sat, 05 Apr 2014 18:21:12 -0000 (UTC)
>Subject: Re: [Sansevierias] S. 'Black Jack' and Superba
>At 08:41 AM 4/5/2014, you wrote:
> >
> >
> >'Black Jack' was patented by Florica Farms. They have been busy
> >fooling around with Sansevieria Futuras. Check out the following
> >URL. It might pay to pay more attention to Lowes and Home Depots as
> >we travel around the countryside this summer.
> >http://stks.freshpatents.com/Florica-Farms-Inc-nm1.php
>
>I had noticed that the place itself has been dabbling in Sansevierias
>and Dracaenas. one of their Dracaenas i saw in the mid sixties in
>Roehr's nursery. Roehr's used to grow stock material in Puerto Rico
>and have VAST boatloads of propagating material shipped to them. I
>saw this brilliant chartreuse striped Dracaena, only three plants in
>their propagating area, and those three were not for sale. it was not
>until the mid eighties I saw plants of that kind of colouration. Of
>course the same variegation or colour aberration can pop up anywhere,
>any number of times. I suspect Florica has been fooling around with
>chemicals because wow suddenly they have several "new and different"
>Sansevierias popping up. And Dracaenas.
>Roehr's was owned by Graff, who put out EXOTICA.
>hermine
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