chalyse said:
Would you feel that is a plant characteristic that could be pretty easily bred out on an otherwise worthy cultivar, for those of us with too much time on our hands (hobby hybridizers)?
I think it's just something that happens. I really have not seen it as a fault in a cultivar such as all the seedlings from a certain cultivar do this or a majority do; it's sort of a hit or miss kind of thing from my observations. It may just have been too much for it to bloom so soon and couldn't handle the stress or it could have just been a weakling from the get go and wouldn't have mad it anyway. It also could have been crowded and shaded out by the others around it and just didn't get enough sun and such to survive. I have had this happen to mature plants that get crowded out by those around it and can't get enough sun, they just kind of struggle and are leggy and scrawny and look like they are on deaths door step when I find them in the middle of the others.
