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TradescantiaHub , 16 hours ago to plants group

I'm liking the look of this T. zebrina seedling. In good light the leaves develop purple speckles and a pronounced central stripe, over a bright green background.

I've had about fifty seedlings, and it's really tricky narrowing them down and deciding whether any are worth keeping. Especially when there are so many zebrina cultivars already! Is this different enough from 'Discolor' and 'Burgundy' to be interesting?!

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Closer view of the leaves. The background colour is bright green, with speckles and a central band of purple, as well as two silver stripes on each leaf.
View of the leaves on another stem, with the same pattern of purple speckles.

TradescantiaHub , 5 days ago to plants group

I gave my friend some tradescantia cuttings for their hanging pots 🪴

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Close up of a pot in a blue rope hanger with several different types of tradescantia
Pot in a pink rope hanger with lots of tradescantia cuttings
Another pot in a blue rope hanger with several tradescantia stems sprawling out

TradescantiaHub , 9 days ago to plants group

My tradescantia hybrid seedling started to open its first flower overnight, so I made a timelapse recording.

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Timelapse video of a pink three-petaled flower opening on a tradescantia plant.

TradescantiaHub , 12 days ago to plants group

It's Tinantia pringlei invasion season - my own other plants cause more of a weed problem than anything coming from the wild 😆

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A pot of green and white striped Tradescantia, with another spotty Tinantia leaf popping up
A different striped Tradescantia. The audacious Tinantia seedling is emerging directly in the centre of the pot.
A pot of green Tradescantia fluminensis with a very small, but recognisably spotty, Tinantia seedling emerging at the bottom.

TradescantiaHub , 15 days ago to plants group

My shelf full of seedlings, they're all starting to show their most dramatic colours outside now ☀️

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Another angle of the same tray
A different tray of T. pallida plants, similarly varied from green to purple
Another angle of the same plants

TradescantiaHub , 20 days ago to plants group

Exciting announcement! I have bred a new interspecific hybrid - Tradescantia brevifolia × hirta. This hybrid is previously undescribed and unnamed.

The seed parent was T. brevifolia 'Scout', and the pollen parent was T. hirta 'Swifttale'. I cross-pollinated and collected seeds in summer 2023, they germinated that autumn, and of the two surviving seedlings the first one just flowered for the first time this week.

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One stem of the previous plant, with a bright pink three-petaled flower.
Closer view of the flower. It has dark pink stamen filaments and yellow anthers, with slightly ruffled edges to the petals.

TradescantiaHub , 22 days ago to plants group

Remember the mystery seedlings I've been teasing about since last year? It's finally time for the big reveal... but it's a bit disappointing.

As a few people guessed, the seed parent is Tradescantia 'DRATRA01' (aka Roxxo), and the seedlings are identical to that cultivar.

🧵 For the full story!

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TradescantiaHub , 25 days ago to plants group

This large-form mutation of Callisia repens 'Bianca' is flowering! They look like tiny fluffy pompoms. 🌸

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Slightly wider view of the flower stalk emerging from a vegetative stem, which has bigger spread-out oval leaves with pink and green stripes.
A different stem which is reddish from sun. On this one the only visible part of the flowers are the puffball stigmas emerging from the base of each leaf.
Another stem with striped leaves with only the puffbal stigmas visible.

TradescantiaHub , 30 days ago to plants group

I found a weird little mutation on this T. zebrina Superba. From the top it looks totally normal, but from the underside there are random sectors with no purple.

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The same stem flipped over. The leaf undersides are purple but there's a some random stripe of silvery-green on each leaf too.
The underside in different lighting.

TradescantiaHub , 1 month ago to plants group

Another T. pallida seedling I'm definitely planning to register and distribute. This one has adorable flowers with super rounded petals, and the leaves seem to stay very small even in different growing conditions. Not sure what I'll name it yet 😁

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The leaves lower on the plant, they're pointed oval shapes, dark green with slightly reddish-brown edges and scattered white hairs.

TradescantiaHub , 1 month ago to plants group

I'm always impressed by the size of the flowers on T. zebrina 'Leprechaun'. Here's one (right) next to 'Purpusii' (left).

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TradescantiaHub , 1 month ago to gardening group

I made a little video of my repotting process. I never usually make videos but it's quite fun to see all the action compressed like this!

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1-minute compilation of short clips of my gardening-gloved hands repotting plants. First I pick up one plant from a pile, and pull apart the long tangled stems. Then I cut short pieces from the ends of the stems and make a neat pile. I pull out the dead parts from the pot and throw them to one side, then cut off all the remaining live stems and throw them somewhere else. I tip out the soil and break it up, removing most of the roots. Finally I mix up fresh soil, hold a handful of cuttings in the middle of the pot, and fill the soil around, finishing it off with a label. Audio is the rustling of my actions with some jackdaw calls in the background.