SchmidtGenetics

Wait… I found the issue, where did I say the plants magically change colour? Your entire argument has been about something I’ve never stated and you assumed that I meant they randomly change colour?

Go back through the comments and you’ll see that I don’t state that, in fact my comments all talk about how they die end of season and come back differently. I also dead head, so they couldn’t have hybridized, but of course this is another point you just ignored in your bloviated rant….

You insult MY reading comprehension, when you started an argument over something YOU assumed?

All I said was they change colour, than every comment you go and explain how they do while thinking I was talking genetics? Please show where in my comment you got this stupid idea from. Show the class, please. Of course some die, the environment conditions (which is what I was talking about) affects those. I never argued any of these points, yet in every response you assumed I was arguing with you. Get help dude.

? I’ve addressed everything you’ve said that’s relevant to my post, just because I’m ignoring irrelevant shit doesn’t make me lack reading comprehension..

You’re actually the one ignoring the relevant bits that show you don’t have a clue here.

Why haven’t you addressed the fact that you’ve ID’d the plant wrong and are talking about a totally different country and situation? Maybe once you pull your fucking head out of your ass you could see how fucking wrong you are here. It’s embarrassing that you’re claiming you’re right, when for the umpteenth time. You didn’t even ID the plant and are taking about a totally different country and situation.

Give your fucking head a shake dude, I do have some basic plant biology experience. Clearly your own ego can’t let you see you fucked up. I’ve even explained this multiple times and you STILL can’t get it? You’re a special one dude. If you can’t ID a plant or atleast acknowledge when someone says they don’t LIVE IN THE FUCKING USA, why should anyone take your advice? All you’ve shown is you don’t listen to what people say and bloviate about whatever you want.

Also, all your comments all look like they went through an LLM, you’re weird. Congrats on using Google and llm to appear smart, maybe that’s why you can’t seem to understand nor seem to want to even acknowledge the information I’m providing. Your llm can’t understand and just ignores it.

If you’re a commercial plant breeder I feel sorry for your clients.

In your last comment you say there is only a few resellers, which is applicable in the US, where I don’t reside. You also link the McKanas giant mix. Which clearly my 1” blooms aren’t… so your entire claims should be brought under question. I even stated this in my previous comment, which you of course ignored since it shows your lack of comprehension.

You are the type of person who just googles something and runs with it aren’t you? Your first link even talks about how they do change colour, so it really sounds like you have a surface depth knowledge and are bloviating about adjacent topics to make yourself look smart.

You can’t even provide a source that backs up your claim, and almost all other sources and nurseries say otherwise. __ So yeah, if you are actually a commercial breeder, people either need avoid you, or you probably aren’t what you claim.

I also haven’t argued with you about anything, you keep going off on tangents when I talk about my plants shifting colours as they naturally do, like your own link even states… so if you enjoy arguing with yourself, you should maybe go and get checked out mate. Because this is completely one sided.

You mis ID the plant and have talked with such confidence about the US situation…. where I don’t even reside… for the umpteenth time.

It’s not McKanas, there’s more than one mix of columbines.

I’m also not in the USA.

This isn’t just one nursery dude. Your own link doesn’t even corroborate what you’ve said. We shopped multiple nurseries. You’re literally the only one on the internet claiming this.

I know this is more than one plant…. That’s why the colours shifting, because some have died out, and some have changed colour. Again for the third bloody time, this never started with red in it. And nothing you’ve provided have said they don’t change colours. In fact they say they do, I even provided the part of YOUR source that states this.

You’re wrong dude, leave it.

And you don’t seem to be able to comprehend that most people don’t have large enough gardens to supply proper hybridization, so it naturally goes back to the natural colour. If I had a large garden, what you said CAN happen, but in almost all situations, it doesn’t properly interbreed, it reverts to its natural colour.

Also, again, no reds to begin with, and I’ve dead headed the plant every year, it’s never seeded itself.

Most people will have columbines that shift back to the natural colours, not provide hybridization since there’s not enough to compete with the naturals, so they take back over. So what you’re describing, isn’t what most people will see with their plants. If you want to talk about edge cases like it’s the norm. Go and bloviate dude.

This was all stuff we were warned about ahead of time by the nursery.

Your link doesn’t support what you say. Like at all.

Over many years, interbreeding can result in a stable population that is a completely different color. Alpine meadows filled with columbines of an intermediate color have been observed throughout the western United States.

They change colours, the specifics are moot. Red is what’s natural here, so they will usually shift back to that colour. If blue is natural where you are, the flowers will typically shift back to that colour.

The mix didn’t have any red to begin with either.

Hah, we have a rather unique weather phenomenon up here. I learned a little ago, it causes stuff in NE States as it goes too.

often from below −20 °C (−4 °F) to as high as 10–20 °C (50–68 °F) for a few hours or days, then temperatures plummet to their base levels.

Alberta Clipper

Looks like some type of rose?

I’ve got Campfire Rose, similar colour, but it’s faded instead of mixed. Mine should be blooming in a couple weeks here.

I miss the multicolored, but these being one of the first bloomers always marks the little spring we have.

Mine haven’t, I’ve been judicious with the dead heading though. May let it go wild this year or collect the seeds.

I tried doing some from seed this year myself, but they aren’t easy seeds to start inside!

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That’s not true, coloured columbines typically shift back to wild red after a few years. Most flowers shift colors depending on environmental factors.

They used to be blue, white and yellow.

Oh to make it funner, it was 26c last week, and will be 27c next week as well.

There’s no real spring, straight from cold to heat.