I bought yellow and white chrysanthemums and planted them together in August. Now in November they are all yellow. I read in another "Answer" that the soil condition will make them turn pink. Not the case here as mine are all yellow now. I am wondering if I had planted them separately that I would still have white ones.
2007-11-08 02:00:41 · 5 answers · asked by nosouix 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
That will always happen when you plant other colored mums next to yellow ones.... yellow is the predominant gene color in mums. The others colors are hybrids and when planted next to yellow, they will always revert to yellow.
To have them maintain their individual colors, they have to be planted away from each other... the other side of the house, the other side of the yard. I'd say at least 20 feet away from each other. It's genetics. I can't explain it beyond that.
2007-11-08 05:35:59 · answer #1 · answered by such a princess 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Chrysanthemums with white color are yellow color variants with carotenoid (yellow) pigments degraded. White plants digest their carotenoid pigments in the flower petals using a protein called Carotenoid Cleavage Dioxygenase from the CmCCD4a gene.
http://cabiblog.typepad.com/hand_picked/2006/12/index.html
The protein is expressed only in the petals not in the root, stem or leaves yet it does sound as if the yellow plants secreted some for uptake by your white plants. Separate the plants, washing all soil from the white cultivar's roots and replant it. Does it produce white flowers once more when it next blooms?
2007-11-08 08:24:03 · answer #2 · answered by gardengallivant 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am so glad to read your question! A cyber friend in northern Calif. had the same experience. She is an expert in growing mums and has been for years and years. When she enquired at the County Extension Service, they felt it was the lack of rain and the climate changes.
2007-11-08 05:42:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
A virus, the soil, being in close quarters or adding dye will cause it.
2007-11-08 05:01:41 · answer #4 · answered by Jamerican Steve 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my chrysanthemums changed colour from yellow to bright red, yellow, and white, all in one plant. I was told by ALL garden centres, (that's impossible) The colours are all in clusters.... Why.....?
2015-11-12 08:16:39 · answer #5 · answered by DENNIS B 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋