Thank you, admmad - I believe you were one of the people who was in some of the discussion I remember from years ago...
Though Julie says she has a converted Ed Murray, I don't believe they were that common back when I remember the discussion about it being used on tets and dips.
In one of the links I gave above, without going back and re-reading, I believe Benz says that the non converted Ed worked just as well as the conversion, and also that Ed is not a triploid? It's all confusing... but interesting! Triploids are generally considered sterile, aren't they?
I am curious, then, how Ed Murray shows up as having child plants where it is both the pod and pollen parent of tets yet seems to be only pollen parent on dips?
I didn't keep track exactly, but looking down through the child plants, the tets look about even on if Ed Murray was on the pod or pollen side when a tet was registered.
Midnight Magic - Tet with EM as pod parent
Serena Dark Horse - Tet with EM as pollen parent
Diploids - far fewer intros than tets - I think there were 5? but EM was always on the pollen side.
Jupiter Lighthouse - dip - Night Wings x (Black Cat x Ed Murray)
Thornbird - dip - Little Grapette x Ed Murray
Bangladesh - dip - Yazoo Beauty x Ed Murray
