Re: HYB: REB: Genetics

Chuck, I'd really like to be able to use some of my non-reblooming children from rebloom parents (IMM, HoM, TEA LEAVES, VIOLET MIRACLE, RENOWN).
Even just using cycle and summer rebloom as variables, I'm struggling to come up with a hypothesis that eXplains what I'm getting so far re: probabilities of rebloom.
If cycle and summer are dosage effects from the same set of allele or additive effects from two different sets of alleles, or (worst yet) are inherited and act completely independently, and are recessive, it looks like the probability of getting rebloom from non-reblooming half sibs from rebloom parents would be very small. But not so small as not to try. I.e., if it's 1 in 36, for me, that's worth trying.
But if one (or both, if there are two different sets of alleles?) is dominant, then I won't ever get rebloom that way.
Oh rats, my brain just scrambled - can't quite see how a recessive rebloom allele might interact with a dominant one, especially if they both have dosage effects from other alleles related to eXpression of rebloom.
Anyway, I need help figuring out how many seedlings I might have to grow from that type of cross in order to get any rebloom at all or at least to test some hypotheses. Especially since <eXpression> of rebloom is so dependent on weather, even when the genes are there to allow bloom. 

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