Re: Bottoms Up (RL's question),

Randall, (and others interested)
 
BOTTOMS UP is an introduction from last year from Mike Sutton,  It is from a cross of Bye Bye Blues x Bugleboy Blues, both of which are from Dauber's Delight x Honky Tonk Blues.
 
If found this pedigree especially interesting since Mike had mentioned that the SA's from HTB had been a quite significantly lower percentage of the total number of seedlings than found in parallel crosses with Yaquina Blues, a half sib (and then some--the other parents are not unrelated) of HTB.  The most extreme form of the SA traits had been spooned types in the F1 Honky Tonk Blues crosses, whereas Yaquina Blues produced flounces.
 
Here, in a second generation cross of two seedlings, each from the same parentage, we have a variety with an elaborated flounce the Sutton catalog describes as a "feathered flounce."  Not only is Bottoms Up an attractive flower, the genetics involved strike me as being particularly significant. 
 
If we can get a handle on *why* offspring of HTB, which throws spooned seedlings at best, can, when crossed in the F2 generation, produce something as elaborated as a "feathered flounce" we may be laying open a major piece of what gives with SA traits and their variation.
 
I rather like that descriptive term, "feathered flounce," by the way.  It has a nice "ring" to it--sounds like a term we might consider adopting for the type.
 
Neil Mogensen  z 7 western NC

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