My 1st ? albino ?

[2cents]

Have you ever seen one of these?
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[rainbowgardener]

Your picture doesn't magnify very much, but it is a baby corn plant? Growing right next to its normal green sibs?

Nope... never seen anything like it!!

[2cents]

Rainbow,
I've been gardening a long time and don't recall anything like this.
There are some small, faint green lines in the leaves
It is now in the ground and half the size of his/her siblings
Tell me how to get a better picture and I'm willing to try.
If it survives I'll invite you over late in the season... ..
Praying...Please produce an ear or two
Sorry to have missed your plant sale, keep me posted next year

[rainbowgardener]

Well of course it isn't doing very well, it has no chlorophyll to gain energy.

I did look it up and there is such a thing as albinism in plants (I had never heard of it). I found e.g.s of albino redwood trees. But albino plants that survive are ones that can basically live as parasites off the mother plant.

Apparently there is such a thing as albino corn plants:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC540640/

you would have to buy the article to read it, but see also the reference list below.

Also:

https://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/4259450?uid=3739840&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&uid=3739256&sid=56215344543

Very interesting... had to have arisen as a spontaneous mutation.

[Ava]

I had a Dwarf Broad Bean seedling like that! Really strange. It died eventually, though.

[2cents]

After 10 days or so, there is very little life left in the little guy.....Very sad .
But, I fertilized today just in case I could pep him up

[ReptileAddiction]

I don't know how old this thread is but how is the little guy doing? Try grafting on a leaf from one of the other corn plants so it can photosynthesize.

[2cents]

Thanks for asking,
The little white albino corn plant has long gone over the rainbow to be with dorothy & toto.
But he was real, and not a fictional character.
He never made it past 4 inches tall. In fact the photo is about as good as he ever looked.

[ReptileAddiction]

That sucks. It would have been neat to try to graft on a leaf.

[GardenGnome]

Once I opened a pumpkin and had a white plant growing inside. I would guess it was white from the dark. But it was still cool. I died.

[optimusprime]

Have you ever seen one of these?

Sorry for reviving this super old thread I noticed today one of my corn seedlings was white so I searched for "albino corns" and this came out. I also shot a quick video of my plant:



Is it really possible to graft a leaf as some have suggested ? I really don't want this poor guy to die

I will keep ya updated

[rainbowgardener]

Well, albino animals and people can survive pretty well, because we don't need our pigmentation for survival, just protection from the sun, etc. The "pigment" in plants is the chlorophyll and they do depend on that for survival, to manufacture energy. So I doubt any albino plant is going to survive very long. It's why they aren't common.

[A Happy Seedling]

Sorry your little white wonder died, if you ever get another, try fertilizing immediately when you see it, then attempt to graft a leaf onto it--OR try "root surgery", when you find a plant with a large taproot, cut a hole in the taproot, snip off the very tips of the albino's roots, dip the albino roots' cut ends in rooting hormone, and place them in the large taproot. Pray that the albino's roots will grow into the taproot so they can suck life from the taproot.