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Originally Posted by Orchid_Tapestry
Wondering what the incidence is of Neo's Morphogenesis reverting back to it's original growing characteristics?
Are there certain varieties that revert back easier than others?
I love the smaller sized morphs but they rarely seem to be photographed as a larger species. Is it because new growths revert back? or are the changes strictly from growing conditions?
I ask because I purchased a lovely 3 fan Mikado, with a nice central stripe and smallish wide almost lanceolate leaves. However this years new top growth is now growing narrower and longer than the original fans. Any suggestions to get it back on track? (I'll add a photo as soon as I can get it loaded)
I grow my neo's under lights, but this Mikado became rather red pigmented, so I backed it from directly under light and now leaves are growing longer. Could that be the issue??
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What do you mean revert back? I thought you originally were talking about small sized morphs of varieties like Tamanishiki vs Nishidemiyako, but you began talking about Mikado, which doesn't have any size morphs other than the typical size variations caused by cultural conditions that apply to pretty much any neo...
Most neo varieties will grow somewhat longer, narrower leaves when grown in lower light, and somewhat shorter, wider leaves when grown in higher light. Some varieties are affected more in this way and some less. Other shifts in cultural conditions can directly affect the vegetative characteristics too. Oemaru-Shima and by extension, Mikado, is somewhat more prone to this sort of variation, while a variety like
Kujakumaru is an extreme example of this sort of variability.
This level of variation though, is not considered a morph, but standard variation that will respond back and forth with changes to cultural conditions. Learning how to adjust cultural conditions to get the specific characteristics you want is one of the important and rewarding aspects of growing neos.
Proper morphs on the other hand are generally not controllable. You can do things to encourage certain morphs, but you can't reliably expect a specific cause and effect relationship with cultural conditions and morphs.
For example, a Ginsekai can morph out of any Nishidemiyako. When it does happen, it's not because you changed your growing conditions, it's random chance. A Ginsekai reverting back to Nishidemiyako is likewise a chance happening, not something you can control beyond minor encouragement.
When speaking about the likelihood of proper morphs reverting, it's variable between each variety and strain of the variety. For example, some Ginsekai strains are prone to morphing back into Nishidemiyako, while others are more stable and tend not to revert back. On the other hand, another morph of Nishidemiyako, Saikaku was a one time morph of Nishidemiyako, and it has never reverted back into Nishidemiyako. There's really not much you can do about it other than doing research and purchasing the more stable strains to begin with.
In any case, large specimens of small morphs of various varieties are not uncommon. If you've not seen photos of those, I'm thinking you haven't been looking in the right place.
Reverting Morphogenesis in neo's
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