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cwhitt said:Much of the genetics involved crosses over to most plants. For instance, coloring of flowers. Which colors are dominant? Knowing this would help to decide which plant would be the seed parent and which plant would be the pollen parent when doing a cross.

You've inadvertently hit on the very reason why there are hybridizing threads on specific forums. In you example, different flower colors are dominant, depending on the kind of plant. There is no generality. And for some plants, which parent the color comes from does make a difference; for others, it makes no difference at all.

I do understand your frustration about the information being scattered about... an inherent characteristic of forums in general. At least we are not like Facebook in this respect. The moderators of the Lily forum are quite forward thinking with their thread organization, with the purpose of preserving information for future member use. http://garden.org/forums/view/...