Jo Ann, I did a lot of crosses of 'Orange Tip' with every red and got NO yellow seedlings, so the gold color is recessive. You can recover it in the F2 by selfing or sibbing these seedlings or a backcross to 'Orange Tip'. I'm hoping a few of my F1's will bloom so I can do the backcross.
Thank you so much for your comments on my chapter on hybridizing. That was a first draft off the top of my head to use in the clinic and written during a bout of swine flu!
For whatever reason the formulation of Quick Start seems to work especially well with seedlings. I gave Lynn her first bottle!
Kevin
