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color changing flowers
danielg
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Has anyone ever heard of color changing flowers. I found this crowdfunding project on IndieGoGo that is developing color changing petunias that turn red from white using biotechnology. Are there there other types of flowers that can change color?
Link to the project: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/color-changing-flowers
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Seems a bit weird but I suppose it's not that different from plants that bloom a different colour depending on the pH of the soil.
no weirder than this lot
http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.Xmulti+coloured+roses.TRS0&_nkw=multi+coloured+roses&ghostText=&_sacat=0
In the sticks near Peterborough
Pulmonaria start off pink and change to blue.
Lots of roses change colour as the flowers age.
So I don't really see why it is that novel to be honest. From a science point of view, it just seems a waste of biotechnology. I understand engineering crops to make them pest/ disease resistant or to express higher levels of vitamins. Things that will have an impact on world hunger etc. But a petunia that changes colour when you give it alcohol? Don't get it at all.
And nut, what on earth is that eBay listing?!? What worried me most is it claims that 300 people have actually bought them.
Is Daniel promoting the cloudfunding enterprise or is he interested in growing colourful petunias? I'm not clear what his post is about
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It looks like a dreadful scam to me.
Send $10,000 and get a lot of plants in 2017.
Actually for that amount I could fit out my garden with a super duper new greenhouse and grow lots of things myself, with plants from the best nurseries in the country.
Precisely!
Methinks the OP is being disingenuous
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I'm always a bit suspicious of a first post with a link to a company
PP Yes 300 people
In the sticks near Peterborough
I think my wishlist with $10,000 dollars or £7.000 in english, would be lots of hellebores from Ashwood, daffs from Ron Scamps, Roscoeas from the national collection, rare specimens from Crug farm, Citrus trees to go in the conservatory in winter, Roses from Davis Austin, a trip around Burncoose nurseries, a firepit and some nice garden furniture to sit with friends and give the garden a good looking at. And some nice red wine, which always results in a colour change... it makes me flush red. Which is why I try and stick to sauvignon blanc.