Calibrachoa Balcabmiss Cultivar Star Pattern and Growth Habit

Resolve Bottlenecks,
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions

Solution Overview

Problem

Existing Calibrachoa cultivars lack attractive novelty flower coloration and balanced growth habits, with many exhibiting either low vigor or inappropriate flower patterns.

Innovation Solution

A new cultivar, 'Balcabmiss', resulting from cross-pollination between Conga Light Pink Star and CABARET Good Night Kiss, featuring medium purple and dark greyish-purple flowers with a central star pattern, medium green foliage, and a moderately vigorous, mounded-trailing growth habit, which is reproduced true-to-type through asexual propagation.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Quantity of substance

If existing Calibrachoa cultivars are used, then they have established growth habits, but they lack attractive novelty flower coloration and balanced growth habits

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveflower coloration qualityVSAvoidgrowth habit balance

Core Design Contradiction:

Quantity of substanceVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines two parent cultivars with different characteristics: one parent contributes flower coloration patterns while the other contributes growth habit. The cross-breeding merges these traits to produce offspring that exhibit both attractive novelty flower coloration and balanced mounded-trailing growth habit, resolving the contradiction between color quality and growth adaptability

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

2Quantity of substance

If cross-pollination breeding is performed to achieve novelty flower coloration, then new color patterns are created, but breeding time and complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveflower coloration noveltyVSAvoidbreeding program duration

Core Design Contradiction:

Quantity of substanceVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent performs preliminary selection of parent cultivars that already possess desirable traits before initiating the breeding program. By pre-selecting parents with complementary characteristics (one with excellent coloration, one with excellent growth habit), the breeding process is accelerated and the time to develop cultivars with both traits is reduced

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

3Stability of the object's composition

If asexual reproduction is used to maintain true-to-type characteristics, then genetic consistency is achieved, but propagation time and effort are required

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvegenetic consistencyVSAvoidpropagation time

Core Design Contradiction:

Stability of the object's compositionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs terminal stem cuttings for asexual propagation, which is a self-service method where the plant propagates itself without requiring complex external intervention. This approach maintains true-to-type genetic consistency while minimizing the time and effort required for propagation compared to more complex propagation methods

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUSPP34063P2<i>Calibrachoa </i>plant named ‘Balcabmiss’

Publication Date: 2022.03.22 BALL HORTICULTURAL CO

AI summary

A new and distinct cultivar of Calibrachoa plant named ‘Balcabmiss’, characterized by its medium purple and dark greyish-purple colored flowers having a yellow coloration forming a central star pattern, medium green-colored foliage, and moderately vigorous, mounded-trailing growth habit, is disclosed.