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2006 Plant List
Annual Flower Research at Bluegrass Lane - 2006
Petunia Madness Red Morn

Source: Ball Horticultural Company


Comments:

15-June: washed out looking color, floppy corolla, yellowing/browning leaf margins, needs dead-heading; 30-June: horrible petal damage, dying flowers are spotted, wet flowers look horrible, flowers look ragged; 15-July: everything about it is bad, tall, gross colors, needs dead-heading, botrytis; 30-Jul: botrytis, few blooms, not enough flowers, leggy, washed out; 15-Aug: botrytis, climbing, no height uniformity at all, washed out spots; 30-Aug: all blooms closed, botrytis, hate this variety.


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