So, if a plant throws a bloom of a completely different solid color, that is a sport? Yes and a sport can affect the whole plant or just a part of plant like one stalk. Your sport affected the whole plant.
And if it’s variegated, it’s just genetics having a little fun - which may or may not stay variegated? No, it has a transposon that is now active.
Unless the gene has jumped to the point of no return? No, they generally all can return to the location where they are active. Occasionally, the transposon gene may be zapped by radiation or some such thing and be gone forever. Not likely.
And does that mean all variegated varieties have the potential to be solid? Or have they been grown long enough to show stability in the variegation, and they won’t - take Mingus Toni for instance.
Mingus Toni has sported to solid many times over the years. Some are more stable than others. My HH Spreckles has never gone solid in my garden and when I bragged about that someone came up with one that had sported solid. Never say never.
So basically my plant started to jump . No, the transposon gene became activated probably by the loss of another gene.
And it could stay this way, or it could return to OG Jessie G at some point. Yes, but more likely to stay this way.
Tobi should add some personal data to your name on this site. For example if you live in Antarctica I might give you different cultural information than if you lived down the road from me.
