admmad said:
'Tahitian Sorbet' is a second generation offspring and from its registered information alone one cannot tell how the spotting might have been inherited since any hypothesis could result in no spots by that generation.
True, any time you cross a pattern (Pitter Patter) with a non-pattern (Ivelyn Brown) you can find the pattern's genes masked (Tahitian Sorbet). What I was referring to is that Spots and Stripe's hybridizer, Mussar, noted that some F1 offspring do show the spotting gene, as would also be expected. So, whoever crossed PP x IB on the way to TS probably saw some of it at F1, too, as well as anyone else who tried hybridizing with Pitter Patter in the four decades since its registration. I'm so glad they finally came forward with something to show for it. I'll be posting pictures as soon as my PP crosses bloom, too.
