I wondered! I thought the middle one was, and knew the yellow one looked a little dippy too.
If the middle one is My Cup Overflows, it is more white rather than pink in real life, right?
I think it would be very nice in pale pink. I bought several newer releases in Tets with it
being the parent from the converted dip version. Can't wait to use them. Pete Harry has
his Cyclops in the Garden and it should be coming in a couple weeks. It is pink.
As for this topic, Dips have been an important part of Tet production with all of the conversions.
I had almost gotten out of the Dips until the Kaleidoscopes and a few others came out. Where
they are concerned, I think the patterns show up nicer on the Diploid version in the ones I have
seen, and I really like that. I am getting my first seedling out of the Tetra version of Rose Kennedy
and from what I have read, the Tets have surpassed the Diploid version with some of them having
thicker flowers with better substance that hold up in rainy conditions better than the Dip seedlings.
In my own garden, I will say that the dips seem to be a more rugged plant than the tets and will
often take more abuse and neglect- but for range of colors, I go for Tets more. I don't buy a lot of
heavily ruffled releases, but do have several, and you don't get them in Dips like you do in Tets.
For myself, I tend to judge equally, and grow both, because each have their own individual traits.
I agree with Mike that some are difficult to tell apart, but in others it is quite evident with some
experience. I think I grow about 10% dips.
