Just to give you all a break from all of those eyes and large green throats
, here is the sibling to my lemon seedling which I posted way back on page 4. (If I posted this before on this thread, my apologies... I did a quick look-through and didn't see it.)
The bloom is smaller than that of the lemon sibling (first bloom was almost to 3.5"; subsequent blooms are somewhere around 3-3.25" - still a small flower but heading in the direction of a mini). I'm not sure if it is an EMO (I haven't been out early enough when it was in bloom). Two of the three fans have 6 buds
, the other has a whopping 12 buds.
What is somewhat interesting to me is the color change in this seedling. The lemon sibling starts out as a solid lemon, then fades in color so that by late afternoon it is a paler lemon, but with a darker (same color as in the morning?) lemon throat/eyezone area. This seedling starts out as a solid color somewhere on the spectrum from golden yellow through peach to gold. By late afternoon, the petals have faded in color to almost a near-white, leaving behind a solid throat/eyezone area similar to the original color (somewhere between golden yellow and gold). The contrast between the tepal color and the throat/eyezone color is stronger here than on the lemon sibling.
The substance holds up (at least thus far) during these color changes, on both seedlings. I find the color change somewhat interesting. (With the pathetically low bud count, I'm not sure if I find them interesting enough to keep. I may try a cross or two, if the parent I have in mind blooms for me (it's a new plant), to see if this "feature" (not a bug!
) is retained.)
Here are two images from this second sibling; they are of different blooms, taken at different times of the day:
5-13, at 12:32 pm
The solid color doesn't make this small bloom look all that interesting, does it? Yawn.
5-20 at 6:42 pm In the morning this bloom looked the same in coloration as did the earlier bloom, imaged above.
"What a difference a day (er, few hours)
makes." 
Is this a different flower?!
(This image was taken in shade; I tried not to lighten it up too much in Photoshop.)
