Different flowers on one fuchsia plant
By Cestina
South Bohemia,
Czech Republic 
One of my biggest fuchsias - several years old - has two quite different flowers. The plant used to be two shades of pink and there are still some stems of pink flowers but the bulk of the plant is now mauve and red.
I thought at first I might have put two plants in the pot but I have explored carefully and they are all growing from the same stem.
Can fuchsias revert like this? I have been growing them for about 20 years and have never met it before.
27 Jul, 2011
Answers
Thanks Bamboo. What a nuisance. It was the only one that I had of that type. I'm taking cuttings of the pink stems but presumably they could go too?
27 Jul, 2011
Reverted growth, if allowed to remain, eventually takes over everything, yes. You could just hack out all the reverted bits, just leaving the pink ones behind - might or might not work.
27 Jul, 2011
No I don't think I can do that - about 75% of the plant has has reverted and it's a nicely shaped big bush so I will just live with it and hope that the cuttings from the pink stems come true to the previous pink
27 Jul, 2011
Previous question
Yes, they can revert, that's obviously what's happened. One that reverts often is Fuchsia gracilis variegata, you often get plain green shoots with different colour flowers on that.
27 Jul, 2011