Hybrid Hipp blooming

Del Allegood npublici@yahoo.com
Mon, 12 Apr 2010 05:33:08 PDT
I believe that yellow may be recessive,but it is certainly co-linked with red to produce orange,which seems to be the dominant color in my 25 years of breeding Hippeastrum.Years ago I selfed Pasadena, a tetraploid double hybrid,having red with white stripes coloration. The majority of the seedlings were reddish orange or orange. Del--- On Mon, 4/12/10, J.E. Shields <jshields@indy.net> wrote:

From: J.E. Shields <jshields@indy.net>
Subject: Re: [pbs] Hybrid Hipp blooming
To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Monday, April 12, 2010, 12:22 PM

Dell and all,

I haven't studied genetics of Hippeastrum, but in Clivia, the yellows 
(there are two different types) are recessive.  The peaches are recessive 
as well, although I'm not sure we would pick up a partial penetrance of the 
peach mutation just by eyeball.

Regards,
Jim Shields


At 03:59 PM 4/10/2010 -0400, you wrote:
>I have the first bloom on a Hippeastrum cross from seeds that someone
>donated to the BX awhile back. It is H. 'Desert Dawn' x 'Green Goddess' - an
>unusual cross to say the least. When it is fully open, I will send a photo.
>It looks like it will be really pretty. Who donated the seeds?
>
>It seems that when I grow hipp crosses, the usual bloom resembles either H.
>puniceum or H. papilio, depending on what is in the genealogy. With clivia,
>all crosses that I have bloomed, so far, come out looking more or less like
>the orange C. miniatum. There must be some strong genes in play. Does anyone
>know what this is about?
>
>Dell

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