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Sep 29, 2012 2:10 PM CST
Name: Tina
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You are so kind to ask, and I've just been tending to them :D ... Sugar Baby (the sister) decided, like many early variegated seedlings, to turn mostly-green after her sugar diet. I've put her back in the shady area of the porch with her siblings, and though she remains much lighter yellow-green for now, I'll wait to see if she reverts to variegated or fills in with more color while she begins taking nourishment just from the soil. The albino kid is back (on her right), but so far is regular green (as he was initially the first time around, too). I'll wait to see if he goes albino again, and this time will be ready if he does. His sister did fine on the sugar diet, so now I'm ready if he needs it!

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Sugar Baby on the left; see how long and thin she got from no sun and the sugar diet; the 'feeding leaf' is the pointed-cut end closest to the camera ... Albino is to the right; I know to keep an eye on him. Last time, he turned albino almost overnight.

Oh, and they have a third sibling that is looking interesting, too! LOL I think this batch of seeds must have gotten hit by gamma rays, or solar magnetic bursts, or something otherworldly, because they are at least 50% 'unusual'. He's decided, at just 1-2 inch height, that he is not growing any bigger now, thanks very much, but will just start putting out lots and lots of leaves like the much older seedlings do, and make them kind of whirl around each other. While even my oldest (3 months) seedlings have only 5-6 leaves, he routinely has 8 of them, but ranging from just 1/2 inch to 1.5 inches long to their 7-8 inches. If I didn't know better, I'd think he was a prolif (seedling sprouted from a scape, instead of from a seed, like he was).

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They give me such joy, just watching and wondering at their very individual traits! Group hug
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