Posted by: ian ®
12/11/2005, 13:55:17
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Hello! I have about 10 royal purple and this summer I bought 3 lavender. In the summer I plan to cross each lavender with a royal purple. The result ought to be equel parts of pearl, royal purple, lavender and coral blue. Next summer the logic step would be to breed the coral blue which would give me 9 colours but you say that royal blue breeds true. If the genes in the chart are correct it is impossible. I believe you are right but what will happen if I cross coral blue with lavender? According to the gene chart I will have two more colours:porcelain and opaline. Porcelaine is a homozygot and must breed true. Violet can I get from two royal purple, slate from violet X coral blue and powder blue from slate. Do I understand it all or am I wrong somewhere?
The only way to get a correct gene chart is that all of us hobbyists make some controlled crossings each year and report the result in some place. When we got enough trials let a specialist in genetics look at the result.
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