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Nov 7, 2015 6:50 AM CST
Name: Davi (Judy) Davisson
Sherrills Ford, NC (Zone 7a)
Dennis616 said:That was very helpful. Makes sense.

I was thinking that with all the extra genetic information present in tets there would be lot more “hidden” genotypes that could appear after a cross, more readily enabling the appearance of different variations in the children...


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That's why I find tets so appealing....I think many things remain hidden within the tetraploid gene pool that are hinted at from time to time when you have a focused program. Curt Hanson's program is a good example of a focused program that is revealing some of these hidden things through the development and stabilization of his sculpted forms. Curt gave me some seedlings early in my hybridizing career that are entwined so heavily in my program now that I'm seeing some pretty unusual things such as midrib cristation and ruffles on the BACK of petals, extreme pleats, toothy projections on petal surfaces.....weird, wacky things. One has to sort out if what you are seeing is just a weather related mutation or some hidden genotype that is trying to express itself. And stabilizing anything new so that it appears consistently takes many generations. But to me, that is what hybridizing means....moving daylilies forward to create things that do not now exist....not just crossing one pretty face with another pretty face to reinvent the wheel. And the possibilities are greater with tetraploids in a focused program. Of course, some of those "unpredictable" outcomes are not always pretty!!!

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