RE: [SpaceAgeRobin] no SA offspring

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I will certainly try to do that.  I’m attaching a picture of the Elegant Girl X Happenstance seedling that interests me most because of its big pink beards.  I believe there is a small separation between the end of the beards and the fall.  That would make a tiny fuzzy horn and confirm that it is Space Age.  If so, that would make two of the eight that I remember from that cross SA.

 

Next year I plan to keep careful records of all the beard types on my SA crosses.

 

 

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From: SpaceAgeRobin@yahoogroups.com [mailto:SpaceAgeRobin@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Neil A Mogensen
Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 4:51 AM
To: Space Age Robin
Subject: RE: [SpaceAgeRobin] no SA offspring

 

Francelle, that is very useful data.

If you could flesh it out with whether and how many of the not obvious SA's
had the pronounced BS or BSE (thickened or raised beard spine, or beard
spine extension--a thickened area extending into the fall or the sail-shaped
termination of the beard, something not hair fiber, but a clear fusing of
tissues into a non-normal shape--that too would add to SA data, as it
appears this MAY be the minimal SA condition, and count with the "SA's" in
the total.

The thickened spine, noted by a number of experienced folk as characteristic
of those parents that are unusually productive, have included Sharon
McAllister and Don Spoon.  The "BS" and "BSE" term is something Michael
Michalis suggested and the group is pretty much settled on as common
language, more accurately describing the phenomenon than "ledge" or "shelf,"
which have been used but never caught on with many.

Particularly useful is the BSE, as this covers the range of variations, as
different structures appear, depending on how much fall tissue and how much
beard spine tissue, apparently a separate type, blend in the termination of
the beard.  AMETHYST FLAME, and its modern cousin, SWINGTOWN, are examples
of the BSE with fall tissue predominant, I think.

ADVANCE GUARD and those modern ones, often plicata derived or expressed,
that have the sail shaped termination including fused beard hairs and those
dominated by BS tissue, I believe.  Michael M. may have a more clear
opinion, more observationally based than my own, and undoubtedly more
pertinant, than mine.

Neil Mogensen  z 7  Reg 4  western NC mountains

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