Albino Verschaffeltia splendida, young

[meridannight]

Thought I'd share my albino Verschaffeltia splendida seedling. Seeds were planted on Nov 10, 2020, germination started on December 15, 2020 and ended on January 4, 2021. I had 10 seeds, of which 9 germinated, of which 8 seedlings survived, including this albino specimen. I am aware it shouldn't live for long, and will probably soon die. I haven't treated it any differently from my other seedlings. I thought about feeding it a sugar diet, but decided against it. It's getting watered and fed, and lives under the same conditions as my other V. splendida-s.

[Meangreen94z]

Interesting. Keep us updated if it somehow survives.

[meridannight]

It actually survived for quite a long time, to a 6-leaf stage. But it was extremely slow-growing and the albino leaves tended to brown easily, so it didn't exactly look attractive. Which is why I never posted any more pictures. The leaves were also much smaller than of normal plants from the same germination batch. Then, at some point I forgot to water it for a while and it all went downhill from there. Dead by now.

I also supplemented it with sugars, but I'm not sure if that had any benefit, since I only started it when it had 3 or 4 leaves.

Could have made a few bucks off it had I kept it alive, but really, it was slow and the brown patches on the leaves made it look sad. But all in all, it survived longer than I expected and died only due to fault of mine.