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Posted by Nathan Gutman on July 17, 2008, 9:20 pm
If you were Registered and logged in, you could reply and use other advanced thread options paghat wrote:
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>> Two years ago a friend gave me some balloon flower cuttings to plant.
>> After planting they developed nicely and produced nice blue flowers.
>> This year the flowers are white.
>> Why the change in color?
>> How do I keep them blue?
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> I've never read why they do it but balloon flowers can indeed from one
> summer to the next turn spontaneously from blue to white, or to white
> striped, sometimes even to doubles. If you get a good oddity you can take
> cuttings and get lots of them.
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> -paghat the ratgir
Would this maybe have any connection with the soil being alkaline or acidic?
Nathan
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Nathan Gutman
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