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Aug 2, 2013 12:29 PM CST
Name: Ken Ramsey
Vero Beach, FL (Zone 10a)
Bromeliad Vegetable Grower Region: United States of America Tropicals Plumerias Orchids
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Hetty, or anyone else with this knowledge, how do you label seedlings? Even though the seeds come from a "parent" plant, their DNA cannot possibly be exactly the same as that plant. They had to have been pollinated (by the wind, insect, or by hand) from a different plumeria plant, and thus the seedlings by their very nature are a different plant. The flowers may be the similar or even look exactly the same as the parent plant, but the plant nonetheless will not be the same.

I have never grown plumeria from seed or bought a seedling (as far as I am aware), so I just wondered how the labeling is done. Thanks for the info. Ken
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