2007 yellows with red pets

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2007 yellows with red pets

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Seedlings from this year. One is 1 yellow bunny Ear, and the other is very wavy, got to think up a name for that one...
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I've been removing the lower leaves on them, and the wavy one is sending up another eye.
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Very cool!

But why are you removing the lower leaves?

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Yellow with red

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Very nice!
Looks to be a great combination.
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Because they turn brown and die off, then new eyes pop up from below :wink:
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Very :cool: !!
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These are the only seedlings that I can find that have yellow or somewhat yellow leaves and red petioles.
Neither is as good as yours but I like the red up into the back of the petiole on the Akane seedling.
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wzbt03, I think they are lovely! Akane is a good one for getting some red in the seedlings, I don't have that one :cry: . Way to go!
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those look promising. very nice

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Post by thy »

They all look cool

:hmm: that mean , you can be lucky to see ruffles very early :wink:

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Superb yellow seedlings......I love them already...i hope you show them als whemn they are bigger.....any parents????
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:o :o Linda, that wavy edged one is :cool: :cool: :cool: !!
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Thanks Reldon, I hope they stay that ruffled. Jeroen, I believe them to be from Liberty Bell seeds. That is really the only seed of my own that I started this season early on about late Oct. I got tons of streaks, many green with red pets, and about 6 or so yellows, some streaked, and some like these above. I just love that Liberty Bell as a pod parent! All the next sowings are of seed I won/&or purchased from others, those would be the tiny, 2 leaved ones I have posted pics of. I started my last tray of seeds this week, now I am out and will have way, way too many to care for until they go outdoors.
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Ooooh! I like the ruffles!
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