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Yellow watermelon update
« on: June 26, 2009, 08:00:02 PM »
Yellow watermelon is putting up new leaves and lots of blooms and the leaves are staying striped with vein patterns.
  I love this plant.

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Re: Yellow watermelon update
« Reply #1 on: June 26, 2009, 08:07:34 PM »
WOW, that really looks really cool  @O@

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Re: Yellow watermelon update
« Reply #2 on: June 26, 2009, 08:09:22 PM »
What's not to love!  Tom

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Re: Yellow watermelon update
« Reply #3 on: June 26, 2009, 08:38:53 PM »
That's a very cool one! I'm adding it to my list!

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Re: Yellow watermelon update
« Reply #4 on: June 27, 2009, 09:12:10 AM »
Me too, me too! lol
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Re: Yellow watermelon update
« Reply #5 on: June 28, 2009, 07:52:32 PM »
New leaves coming on.  Still veiny and light colored. 

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Re: Yellow watermelon update
« Reply #6 on: June 28, 2009, 08:21:51 PM »
are there any other variegated lilies.. might be something if you have created the first.

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Re: Yellow watermelon update
« Reply #7 on: June 28, 2009, 10:26:18 PM »
That is cool.  I've never seen anything like that.   :o
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Re: Yellow watermelon update
« Reply #8 on: June 29, 2009, 01:42:35 PM »
Wow, that is pretty darn cool! O0
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Re: Yellow watermelon update
« Reply #9 on: June 29, 2009, 03:58:13 PM »
Yea it's the first that I've ever seen and I've been through the VA photos and I'm sure there is nothing registered.  And it blooms real well, almost always 2 or 3 flowers per crown.  There are only 2 crowns making flowers now and one more starting to put up leaves. I'm going to take that baby and transplant it to start a bed of them all by themselves and this fall I will transplant the big crowns and make a big bed of them. right now it's mixed with other test plants.

  I do have another plant that has watermelon leaves and it's very nice with a big light pinkish yellow flower grading to nice pink sepals.  Ive shown it before but not the leaves.  It's not nearly as variegated and the striping is weaker but there are colors in the leaf instead of just green and spotted.
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