I'll try again.

A second flush of fuschia flower buds have appeared. This time there are
root-like protrusions on many of the buds showing (see photo). Anybody
know whether these are actual roots? Can I propogate from these? Why
would this occur when the buds in the first flush were normal?

http://tinyurl.com/39lrwq

On 26/8/07 15:35, in article , "Frank
Booth Snr" wrote:

I'll try again.

A second flush of fuschia flower buds have appeared. This time there are
root-like protrusions on many of the buds showing (see photo). Anybody
know whether these are actual roots? Can I propogate from these? Why
would this occur when the buds in the first flush were normal?

http://tinyurl.com/39lrwq

I showed this photo to my husband, Frank, because we have a Fuchsia
greenhouse here and he doesn't recognise this problem at all. He can only
suggest some sort of bug is doing this but not that it's something you can
propagate from. I suggest you contact people who breed Fuchsias and grow
them as for showing, perhaps. This is one potentially helpful site:
http://www.fuchsiaclark.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/

--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove weeds from address)
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'

Sacha wrote:
On 26/8/07 15:35, in article , "Frank
Booth Snr" wrote:


I'll try again.

A second flush of fuschia flower buds have appeared. This time there are
root-like protrusions on many of the buds showing (see photo). Anybody
know whether these are actual roots? Can I propogate from these? Why
would this occur when the buds in the first flush were normal?

http://tinyurl.com/39lrwq


I showed this photo to my husband, Frank, because we have a Fuchsia
greenhouse here and he doesn't recognise this problem at all. He can only
suggest some sort of bug is doing this but not that it's something you can
propagate from. I suggest you contact people who breed Fuchsias and grow
them as for showing, perhaps. This is one potentially helpful site:
http://www.fuchsiaclark.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/

Thanks

A second flush of fuschia flower buds have appeared. This time there are
root-like protrusions on many of the buds showing (see photo). Anybody
know whether these are actual roots? Can I propogate from these? Why
would this occur when the buds in the first flush were normal?

Frank - I don't think that is a root. I have had something similar - its
when a petal becomes confused and is not sure if its a petal or a leaf. I
have had a petal, where part was green and part was red. The red part can
try to produce pointed leaf tips and consequently give all sorts of funny
shapes. The real test is to examine the petal closely. I suspect that the
pointed bit is just a bit of mis-shapen petal
Peter.

Peter's more or less right. Those protrusions on the sepals do occur
from time to time with some hybrids and species more prone to it than
others. A slight 'hiccup' in the growing conditions (cold nights,
excessive rainfall etc.) during the early formation of the flower buds
can lead to these or in more extreme cases, actual spurs or even fully
cleft sepals. Although superficially root-like at first glance, these
are aberrations of sepal development and not roots.

Dave Poole wrote:
Peter's more or less right. Those protrusions on the sepals do occur
from time to time with some hybrids and species more prone to it than
others. A slight 'hiccup' in the growing conditions (cold nights,
excessive rainfall etc.) during the early formation of the flower buds
can lead to these or in more extreme cases, actual spurs or even fully
cleft sepals. Although superficially root-like at first glance, these
are aberrations of sepal development and not roots.

Well all the years I've grown fuschias I've not seen this before. But
then there was a lot of rain while the old flowers finished and the new
buds were developing.

I have immersed one of the affected buds in a pot of soil, so I'll be
curious to see whether I get a new plant from this.