gasrocks said:Mindi, do tell everyone that you now own 2 cutting from this plant.

Hi Gene!!

Gene is very kind and gave me quite a few plants!! I have some happy cuttings from his variegated philos!! At the moment my leaves are green but one of the stems has a bit of white. Getting ready to bring them all inside 😀😀😀

Hoping that over the winter inside they grow more new leaves. It's very fun to wonder what color they will be. If they sprout white I will post them here!! 😀😀😀

Mindi

Different pot. ALL WHITE LEAF !!

Gene, Tiffany posted your link re:my post this morning

for the informative post you did, I'm hoping mine stays white, one has splashes of green, so very pretty

Thanks. I was just about to take some more pix of new leaves.

I get these on my propagations of Philodendron White Wizard and on my ALocasia macrorhizza also-variegata a lot. They can't photosynthesize due to the lack of chlorophyll so they die off pretty fast. I've also gotten all white leaves on my variegated gingers before. I got a single part of a frond on a Carlyota gigas palm turn out variegated once, the variegation did not recur on any other frond. Which is a real shame that would have been a true rarity.

Very pretty Gina 💚

Thank you Christine!
All white leaves are not a good thing. They don't photosynthesize and you can lose a plant if it starts producing nothing but all white leaves. That is how I lost my Ae Ae banana. It was huge, produced bananas, had several pups that I divided off as the mother died (all bananas die after they flower and fruit). The last incarnation of my original plant produced only all white pups, none of which survived. So I ended up losing the succession of plants. Although they look cool, all white leaves are really not your friend.

How heart breaking to loose your banana, I'd be crushed if I lost my Zebrina

It was kind of heart breaking. These were so terribly expensive (still are if you can find them) but I was fortunate in that I received mine as a trade. I had a succession of 4-5 (can't remember) progeny before the all white pups ended the reign of my Ae Ae banana as King of the Greenhouse. Ae Ae became unpopular among collectors eventually because it is very finicky and does have the propensity to have corm rot for no reason and do what it did to me, revert to all white specimens. It went from being highly sought after (kind of like the variegated Monstera deliciosa is now) with people paying $200-300 for a small pup to being kind of an ignored plant in a relatively short period of time. This is a hand of banana I got from it, yes, the nanas are variegated too!

Gina, Did your banana fruit produced seeds? I know there are some kinds that do. I think the large edible ones don't.
I just googled banana and found a whole 'bunch' about them.

I'm giving you an acorn for that pun LOL. The bananas were edible so we didn't save any seeds

This morning I finally had the time to straighten up a corner that plants that had spent the summer out in my screened in porch that I just stuck there, low & behold there on another of my pothos her leaves are changing
colors, what in the world, I've had both of these plants for many years, they have never been in the same pot,both were given to me as clippings from 2 different people, the only thing they have in common is the water I give them, I love them both the same I've never talked to one more than the other, so whats up, here they are

A lot of these plants have the genes for variegation even if they don't show it right away.

Did someone mention my name?

Gene, I was hoping for your input too

@Christine, variegation in most plants is caused by changes at the cellular level of the leaves. These mutations can be naturally occurring, of engineered by man. In addition there is more than one type of variegation that can be caused by more then one natural change. Variegation is patterned, or non-patterned (think a striped draecenea vs a variegated Monstera)

Variegated plants usually are weaker than non-variegated ones, and need more light. The more light they get, the better they can photosynthesize with the GREEN parts of their leaves (the non-green parts don't photosynthesize). And the better they will maintain their variegation.

Variegated plants can revert from being variegated to not being variegated for a number of reasons, the most common being as a protective mechanism that will give them more usable green leaves to ensure their survival. But with plants like Epipremnum (which is what your 'pothos' is) it is most commonly due to being grown in low light (which is what makes this plant so desirable as a houseplant in the first place).

The variegation will start to reassert itself sometimes if the plant gets more light. The genes are there, and will express themselves if given favorable conditions

Gina 💚 So very interesting 💚

One thing I do like about my white leaf Philo. sport is that the stems also can be white. New leaf emerging.

we have twins LOL

And they said it wouldn't happen. Another all white leaf.