NOIDs, mystery NOIDs, and mystery NOID babies

First, breaking news: pink More Lips NOID has aborted her seedpod. Apparent mistreatment saw the base of the peduncle rotten and nothing could be done. Experts suspect that confinement in poorly ventilated solitary quarantine cell is to blame. The pod is plump, but only a couple of months into development, and authorities strictly warn against hope for seed viability.

She's in full bloom though, and beautiful.

Her sparkling raspberry pink is gorgeous.

She's also now confirmed as infected--I'd have lifted her out of the solitary confinement cell for the photo, but then I saw the thrips larvae scooting on the bottom of the cell. Despite regular peeping, I haven't spied activity on flowers, buds, or new baby leaves. She'll get sprayed, of course, and will spend additional weeks in confinement (a large white drainless pot with DYI skylight lid). Luckily she seems to like it there just fine.

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Most of my AVs right now are good ole NOIDs¹. Here's something of a list:

- More Lips cultivar with plain single pink pansies that open a soft baby pink and mature into a deep raspberry. Currently breaking in full bloom.
- Ylitalo cultivar with frilled single white pansies with violet edges. Currently de-budded due to war against a straggling cell of guerilla thrips.
- Ylitalo cultivar with attractive full rosette. Total mystery. I don't think I've saved any photo of the thing in bloom and have no memory of her. She may be single white pansy with pink/lilac thumbprints but only time or archaeological findings will tell. Currently making tiny little buds.
- 3 babies of an Ylitalo single white star/pansy with heavy bloom, robust habit, and slightly lighter green leaves with white backs.

- 3 young plants of a local traditional single plain darkish violet pansy with plain leaves
- 2 nearly established suckers of the edged Ylitalo
- 1-2 babies of multiple different Absolute Mystery NOIDs

Most of those mystery babies come from leaves I had rooting this spring, and every single leaf has  produced profuse numbers of babies.² I just separated and potted three pots into six, and had to discard at least six more babies. Later dates will see me culling more.

Of course these leaves weren't mystery NOIDs originally -- I even had an archival system, of sorts, to identify leaf per parent plant. Well brain stuff happened and I've lost much of that archive. Coming up: baby AV batch 2.

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1. To be less than exact, I have 1 named adult, 3 NOID adults, 3 NOID youngsters, 11 NOID babies/leaves with babies, and 12 named cuttings rooting.  ^↩
2. I guess discarding tertiary babies is a fair toll for getting some experience and confidence in leaf propagation before my inevitable collapse³ into full-out AV fancy. ^↩
3. Inevitable, but not necessarily occurring in the near future. I've noticed that my taste is pretty different from what's in vogue in the AV world. Story of my life, eh. ^↩