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I'll second the question about the yellow streaking ... I know it is important to cull flaws, but I am also fascinated with how many flaws later turn out to be new breakthroughs down the line (UFs, etc). I think those of us who are hobby hybridizer-wannabes are more interested in pursuing the unusual or intriguing, but not if its just a bloom feature that indicates it is weak, sickly, or unstable (unrepeating)..
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Becky also wrote "What would cause that yellow vein streaking through the blooms like that? It's a characteristic from a gene?"
The parents of this bloom are both trying to be dominant I suppose
The pod parent is red and the pollen parent is yellow so that's where the red and yellow of the bloom comes in at, but what made it do this streaking is beyond me. A few others in this cross did the same thing, but they got tossed also. If I remember correctly the blooms cleared up slightly but they were still terrible looking. We joked about that very thing how flaws turn into the next "big thing".
