RE:HYB:Plicatas

Betty, a yellow self genetically can be either of two primary things (a couple
others are remotely possible but unlikely-)--it is either a "dominant white"
relative to the plicata pigments or it is a yellow glaciata.  You can tell the
difference by looking at the area of the fall under the style arms.  If there
are haft markings in brown or violet, it is probably a dominant "white"--which
is confusing as all get out, so TWOI uses an entirely different approach of
"reduced anthocyanin," as such flowers can be any color from white to cream to
pink or any variation on yellow.  What they are *not* is violet or brown, red,
plicatas or whatever.  The "I" inhibitor affects only violet to blue pigments,
not yellow.  The couple other remote possibilities look just like "I"
non-blues, but breed differently.

It will be interesting to hear what your seedlings look like.

 A yellow self crossed with plicatas can produce quite a range of different
things.  If it has plicata ancestry or hidden plicata genetics you might even
get plicatas.

If it is an "I" (anthocyanin inhibitor) non-blue, about half, perhaps even
three-fourths of the seedlings will also be non-blue, the remainder a mix of
blends, violets and mud colors--with a stray plicata possible.

Now, that's on the average over large progenies.  With crosses like most of us
raise with few to several seedlings, the ratios won't mean much.  Most
anything can show up.  That's what makes seedlings fun.

Neil Mogensen  z 7 western NC mountains

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