Branching Out's Seeds and Sprouts

[P Suckling]

Here too (thanks for telling me about the post Decoy). Showing sweet pea Enigma which is cream with pinkish red edging that later turned more and more red. This photo is from last year, but I had exactly the same this year. Early flowers were cream, later ones almost solid red. At first I thought it was an inverse of the flower colour, hence the labelling on the photo, but it seems to be another mechanism that causes the change.

Branching out, I harvested seeds separately, by the way, and the seeds from the red flowers also started cream white and turned red later, just like the seeds from the cream white pods did.

 

[Branching Out]

Here too (thanks for telling me about the post Decoy). Showing sweet pea Enigma which is cream with pinkish red edging that later turned more and more red. This photo is from last year, but I had exactly the same this year. Early flowers were cream, later ones almost solid red. At first I thought it was an inverse of the flower colour, hence the labelling on the photo, but it seems to be another mechanism that causes the change.

Branching out, I harvested seeds separately, by the way, and the seeds from the red flowers also started cream white and turned red later, just like the seeds from the cream white pods did.

Thanks for sharing this-- it's a fascinating anomaly, and perhaps more common than one would think. Gorgeous blossoms on your sweet pea plant!