popular flowers.
When one goes beyond pollen dusting, they learn that certain parents will pass
on certain traits. Mass market Euro hybridizers and propagators only use
specific parents for their pot plant requirements and are very hesitant to
introduce other genes into that line of breeding. Basically they seek first and
foremost, only plants that will grow on their own root. Afterward, they must
be early bloomers, for otherwise they take up space on the bench to mature.
They must produce multiple branches when pinched or pruned, large flowers
are somewhat selected against since they don't ship well and they must be
floriferous. Moreover, they augment compact size and floriferousness by the
application of grown retardants. All of that has resulted for the most part in
ignoring the flower, meaning if the other characteristics are there, the
prettiest blooms will do. You would be shocked at the beautiful seedlings they
destroy, since the other criteria are not there.
Other hybridizers like myself are more interested in the bloom, but of course
still want as many of the other desirable characteristics as possible. First one
quickly learns red and pink are quite dominant and that white is a rarity.
One also very quickly comes to find there is a relationship between blue and
brown spectrum cvs, i.e., crossing blues can produce browns and visa versa.
Sometimes putting a dark brown on a blue will intensify color in both
spectrum seedlings. In this regard one also comes to find that certain
parents will produce, for example, a lot of white rims in the progeny (Grand
Hyatt, T. Cherry Blossom, etc.), some large dark eyes (Herm Geller), etc. I
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