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Jun 8, 2015 6:15 AM CST
Name: Becky
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I must confess that I really don't understand what happens to the genetics of a tet or dip conversion. There is a possibility that the seedlings might produce the opposite if the conversion reverts back? It's a concept that seems to complicate my hybridizing because it goes beyond my scope of understanding. If the genes were to convert back, does that mean the seedling would be a sterile daylily? Sterile pollen AND pod? Or does that mean it would be "opposite" fertile? ("Opposite" meaning if it was a tet conversion and reverted back, it would be a dip ..... or a dip conversion reverting back to a tet.)

And what genetic traits would such conversions carry? If a tet conversion, would the genetics still contain the dip pedigree? Or would those dip genetic traits end when converted to tet (... or a reverse conversion of a tet to a dip)?

I came up with my own Daylily Pedigree template and this particular seedling pedigree chart shows the tet conversions in the genetic line:
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Also, where does the pink petals come from? No "pink" back through the 4th generation. Could Celestial Eyes be pink? If so, would that petal color be considered a "recessive" gene?
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