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Originally Posted by TZ-Someplace
It was not supposed to have the red ring around the petals and lip. Neither parent had that. I am wondering if it is luck of the draw from the genetics or if growing the bud cool (low to mid 60s) contributed (I read someplace that cool temp bud development enhances/darkens color). I guess I'll find out from the other two plants of the same cross but they won't bloom until hot weather.
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This is a fairly complex hybrid... so the genetics can give you surprises. One of the charms of getting seed crosses (as opposed to mericlones) - you'll get variation, and may get something really special. They'll all be good... SVO uses excellent parents, but within the combinations, characteristics from several generations back can pop up here and there. Fred Clarke does very few mericlones - he prefers the creativity of new crosses to "predictable" clones. (He cloned some of the earlier Fredclarkeara After Dark cultivars, so very popular, but even there now he's do doing new hybrids rather than reproducing copies of what was popular in the past)
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