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My potted marigolds grew into huge bushes of green blossoms. They had started out yellow. Here one is next to one of the yellow ones. I looked up aster yellow, but other than having a green flower, the plant seems healthy. No wilting, no yellowing of hte leaves. It keeps growing bigger with more and more green blooms. The other plants, salvia, alysum, in the pot are doing fine as well. Big, bright and beautiful. They are just like all the others planted around the house. My nneighbors keep asking me what the green one is. Any help on what could have caused this? And will it re-germinate green or yellow - because when the green blooms die, it leaves seeds just as a marigold, but reblooms with the green still.

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annshade wrote:

Saving the seed of hybrids (& most modern plants are hybrids) does not necessarily produce the same flower as the parent seed. If you had heirloom plants (non-hybrid) the resulting seeds could still be different if they 'crossed' with a flower from the same variety in a different color. Likely this is a virus of the 'color'. A plant with green leaves will produce chlorophyll no matter what. Variagated plants also will sometimes revert back to the all-green, whether they flower or not.

5/13/2010 05:59:24 PM Report Abuse
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