Plants – Rose – Climber
Patent
1993-11-22
1995-05-02
Locker, Howard J.
Plants
Rose
Climber
A01H 500
Patent
active
PP0091260
ABSTRACT:
A Chrysanthemum plant named Warm Megan particularly characterized by its flat capitulum form; decorative capitulum type with many disc florets in natural season fall flowerings, to daisy capitulum type with many ray florets in spring flowerings; warm orange-bronze ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum of 45 to 54 mm when fully opened; branching pattern is spreading and prolific, with 6 to 9 breaks after pinch when grown outside under natural daylength in fall flowerings and in 10 cm pots for spring flowerings; natural season flower date of August 23 to 29 when planting rooted cuttings on June 21 to June 23 in Salinas, Calif., and September 27 to October 5 when planting rooted cuttings June 15 to June 18 in Hightstown, New Jersey; flowering response of 48 to 49 days after rooting in no light
o shade program sin spring; plant height of 30 to 36 cm when grown in fall under natural daylength with no growth regulators in N.J., and 15 to 25 cm when grown in 10 cm pots in spring with 0 to 1 application of 2500 ppm B-9 SP; and durable, uniform performance.
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Locker Howard J.
Yoder Brother's Inc.
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