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Variegated Hop Question.
(Oops sorry for posting this in the "What is this nut tree?" thread)
I have an old male Hop (Humulus Lupulus) from which late in the season has budded out a variegated shoot (direct from rhizome). The first two pictures are of a rooted cutting of the shoot. The third picture is another cutting taken later from that cutting which I took because of the strange mosaic variegation and odd leaf shape on this bine (note that only five variegated leaves are showing in this image as other leaves are from older 'normal' hops growing in the same area.) Both of these plants are now about 1M height (they will soon die back for winter) and will produce small rhizomes. When I grow them both up to maturity next year and use the pollen to fertilise some of my Hop cultivars, Goldings, Tettnanger, etc. Will they transfer this trait to some of the seeds? 1 http://tinyurl.com/2ek3lg 2 http://tinyurl.com/2u86jb 3 http://tinyurl.com/2jwx3k Was hoping to produce a variegated ornamental female hop Rupert. |
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Variegated Hop Question.
"Rupert Bear" wrote in message
... (Oops sorry for posting this in the "What is this nut tree?" thread) I have an old male Hop (Humulus Lupulus) from which late in the season has budded out a variegated shoot (direct from rhizome). The first two pictures are of a rooted cutting of the shoot. The third picture is another cutting taken later from that cutting which I took because of the strange mosaic variegation and odd leaf shape on this bine (note that only five variegated leaves are showing in this image as other leaves are from older 'normal' hops growing in the same area.) Both of these plants are now about 1M height (they will soon die back for winter) and will produce small rhizomes. When I grow them both up to maturity next year and use the pollen to fertilise some of my Hop cultivars, Goldings, Tettnanger, etc. Will they transfer this trait to some of the seeds? 1 http://tinyurl.com/2ek3lg 2 http://tinyurl.com/2u86jb 3 http://tinyurl.com/2jwx3k Was hoping to produce a variegated ornamental female hop how flattering that you have mistaken us for plant geneticists ;-) are all hop cultivars given the same name (humulus lupulus)? if so, i should think you'd have some chance of success, although heaven knows how many seeds you would need to germinate successfully in order to gain the success, but if you're into hops that will be fun anyway. if the cultivars are significantly different as to be of different... um, you know, the genus/species/etc you might be trying for nothing. hope i'm not too off the mark here (someone will correct me if i am, don't you worry ;-) - what i know about this is based on dwarf beans g kylie |
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Variegated Hop Question.
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, Rupert Bear writes (Oops sorry for posting this in the "What is this nut tree?" thread) I have an old male Hop (Humulus Lupulus) from which late in the season has budded out a variegated shoot (direct from rhizome). The first two pictures are of a rooted cutting of the shoot. The third picture is another cutting taken later from that cutting which I took because of the strange mosaic variegation and odd leaf shape on this bine (note that only five variegated leaves are showing in this image as other leaves are from older 'normal' hops growing in the same area.) Both of these plants are now about 1M height (they will soon die back for winter) and will produce small rhizomes. When I grow them both up to maturity next year and use the pollen to fertilise some of my Hop cultivars, Goldings, Tettnanger, etc. Will they transfer this trait to some of the seeds? 1 http://tinyurl.com/2ek3lg 2 http://tinyurl.com/2u86jb 3 http://tinyurl.com/2jwx3k Was hoping to produce a variegated ornamental female hop Rupert. Variegated plants are often chimaeras. If this is the case the variegation won't pass through the pollen. (Depending on which genotype contributes to the pollen you may pass the trait for the variant leaf colour onto seedlings; this may well be recessive, but could be made homozygous by backcrossing to the variegated plant. (Any homozygous plant may be weak due to low/absent chlorophyll.) But the above is not always the case. You can but try. -- Stewart Robert Hinsley |
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Variegated Hop Question.
"0tterbot" wrote in message ... "Rupert Bear" wrote in message ... (Oops sorry for posting this in the "What is this nut tree?" thread) I have an old male Hop (Humulus Lupulus) from which late in the season has budded out a variegated shoot (direct from rhizome). The first two pictures are of a rooted cutting of the shoot. The third picture is another cutting taken later from that cutting which I took because of the strange mosaic variegation and odd leaf shape on this bine (note that only five variegated leaves are showing in this image as other leaves are from older 'normal' hops growing in the same area.) Both of these plants are now about 1M height (they will soon die back for winter) and will produce small rhizomes. When I grow them both up to maturity next year and use the pollen to fertilise some of my Hop cultivars, Goldings, Tettnanger, etc. Will they transfer this trait to some of the seeds? 1 http://tinyurl.com/2ek3lg 2 http://tinyurl.com/2u86jb 3 http://tinyurl.com/2jwx3k Was hoping to produce a variegated ornamental female hop how flattering that you have mistaken us for plant geneticists ;-) are all hop cultivars given the same name (humulus lupulus)? if so, i should think you'd have some chance of success, although heaven knows how many seeds you would need to germinate successfully in order to gain the success, but if you're into hops that will be fun anyway. if the cultivars are significantly different as to be of different... um, you know, the genus/species/etc you might be trying for nothing. hope i'm not too off the mark here (someone will correct me if i am, don't you worry ;-) - what i know about this is based on dwarf beans g kylie Thank you Kylie for your reply, Have been breeding brewing hops for 3 years just for fun, I usually grow around 10 plants to maturity to check out what I have, which I would only have to do for any tiny variegated seedling that popped up. It will be very easy to sprinkle a few thousand seeds in a small area and dig in and re-seed many times over summer until I came across a variegated one to grow on to maturity to find out if it was a female. As far as I know there is only one hop cultivar that's not Humulus Lupulus and that is the Humulus japonicus variegatus which is a banned import as it's an invasive species. It has a beautiful variegation: http://tinyurl.com/2ga2a4 There is the ornamental Humulus lupulus 'Aureus' which has been long available in Australia but it just has a golden-yellow leaf ...as far as I know there isn't a variegated Humulus Lupulus. how flattering that you have mistaken us for plant geneticists ;-) ...I have just found sci.bio.botany and posted my question there as well, I wasn't sure to which newsgroup to post to. Rupert. |
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Variegated Hop Question.
"Stewart Robert Hinsley" wrote in message news In message , Rupert Bear writes (Oops sorry for posting this in the "What is this nut tree?" thread) I have an old male Hop (Humulus Lupulus) from which late in the season has budded out a variegated shoot (direct from rhizome). The first two pictures are of a rooted cutting of the shoot. The third picture is another cutting taken later from that cutting which I took because of the strange mosaic variegation and odd leaf shape on this bine (note that only five variegated leaves are showing in this image as other leaves are from older 'normal' hops growing in the same area.) Both of these plants are now about 1M height (they will soon die back for winter) and will produce small rhizomes. When I grow them both up to maturity next year and use the pollen to fertilise some of my Hop cultivars, Goldings, Tettnanger, etc. Will they transfer this trait to some of the seeds? 1 http://tinyurl.com/2ek3lg 2 http://tinyurl.com/2u86jb 3 http://tinyurl.com/2jwx3k Was hoping to produce a variegated ornamental female hop Rupert. Variegated plants are often chimaeras. If this is the case the variegation won't pass through the pollen. (Depending on which genotype contributes to the pollen you may pass the trait for the variant leaf colour onto seedlings; this may well be recessive, but could be made homozygous by backcrossing to the variegated plant. (Any homozygous plant may be weak due to low/absent chlorophyll.) But the above is not always the case. You can but try. -- Stewart Robert Hinsley Thanks for that information Stewart, its good to know it's not a total impossibility. It will be fun to try this next season. Rupert. |
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Variegated Hop Question.
"Rupert Bear" wrote in message ... big snip ...I have just found sci.bio.botany and posted my question there as well, I wasn't sure to which newsgroup to post to. Rupert. At the risk of taking you away from Usenet, you could also try posting to the ABC's Scribbly Gum site. It's a moderated site, so your posts may take a little while to appear. However, if you register (and that process may take a day or two) you can post, and have it appear immediately. http://www2b.abc.net.au/science/scribblygum/ |
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Variegated Hop Question.
"Harold" Harold [at] clotmail wrote in message u... "Rupert Bear" wrote in message ... big snip ...I have just found sci.bio.botany and posted my question there as well, I wasn't sure to which newsgroup to post to. Rupert. At the risk of taking you away from Usenet, you could also try posting to the ABC's Scribbly Gum site. It's a moderated site, so your posts may take a little while to appear. However, if you register (and that process may take a day or two) you can post, and have it appear immediately. http://www2b.abc.net.au/science/scribblygum/ Thanks for the link Harold, yes that would have been a good place to post, but now have a reply on sci.bio.botany, which with Stewart's reply here gives me the answer I was looking for and that it's worth a try for an outside chance. It's easy to do and a lot of fun, am a very optimistic person ...always checking my garden for a mutant blue Bottlebrush Rupert. |
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