Hi, Pat!!
Aha!
Thank you for this info. I've heard that varigation is not passed along through seeds, but not the nuts and bolts of why.
I read where the doubles are bred, the single to Doxon, the offspring back to Doxon, and the "grandchildren" have a chance to be doubles from seed. Oh, The very first double, a red, was found by a breeder in Viet Nam in 2007, or '08, and is called by various spellings of Doxon.. He posted about it in the Yahoo Adeniums group, saying he wasn't sure if it was a true plant. Created somewhat of an explosion in the varieties of flowers, for sure.
I saw where new coleus colors are often a side shoot of a bigger plant that are true growing. ??? I don't talk right, use the right words, tho' I sometimes actually know what I am talking about, wheeee.
I am breeding my doubles to themselves, and crossing with other doubles, but have yet to have any 'babies' bloom. Sigh, maybe in the spring. I have several seedlings of "Moonlight" a pale cream/yellow double. And more than twenty pairs of pods on various plants.
I have started foliar feeding the pods, and some of them are getting as fat as cigars!
And, I am looking at my more primitive obseums, or original pinks, to begin breeding them for good caudex form. I haven't seen any seed for caudex(es) for sale. Caudices. Dr. Dimmitt, know him? ...Says some of the newer flowers do much better, stronger and better blooming, if they are grafted. I have plants grafted onto arabicum rootstock, which I suspect inhibits growth and bloom frequency. Arabicums most definitely go dormant in winter, as obseums do not, in tropical places. Where I live in the Caribbean is supposed to be tropical. I sure freeze half to death on some winter nights here.
Moonlight
