RE: Re: HYB:Pink:out crosses

Thanks for you reply Neil. 
It is a complicated process. The best one can hope for is about 1/36 but this ratio can be a bit higher considering tetraploid  recombining. I won't even try to explain it here. Having tttt doesn't guarantee pink. It could also have anthocyanin ( thus a purple with a red beard), depending on what the parents had  or be a white or a blue with a red beard, again considering other genetics or even a yellow with a red beard, allthough a rare condition, as this is where we have the alternative pathway to (beta?)-carotene which doesn't come from lycopene and is a recessive trait.

Not the route to go to get good pinks. 

Crossing a pink to a half pink will give about 1/6 offspring with red beard, but again this doesn't mean that the flower is pink, this depends on the other genetics, see above. 

Best bet is pink x pink and select from there, or study up on genetics and use the check lists to get parentage.

Chuck Chapman 



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