My theory is that when you "splint" the bulb, it happens at some random spot in the middle, but not the exact middle. If this is true, then we could say the giant gene is so far to the left of fracture that it never gets split into the right side. And the magenta genes of blush are near the middle, which is why its offspring can show magenta no matter whether it was the right or left splint, and sometimes offspring of blush don't have any color at all. -Aryana
Observations*
| Crown | Petal color: magenta on left, yellow on right |
| Blush | Outer petal color: magenta on left. Inner petal color: both sides? Speed: ? |
| Clarity | Size: mini on left, giant on right |
| Fracture | Size: giant on left, mini on right |
| Energy | Speed: left |
Results of crosses:
| Cross | Outer Petals A | Outer Petals B | Inner Petals A | Inner Petals B | Outer Stamen | Middle Stamen | Inner Stamen | Size | Bulbing Speed |
| blush x clarity | Magenta 1 | Pink 2 | white | Magenta 1 | white | Magenta 1 | Magenta 2 | normal | unknown |
| crown x fracture | white | white | white | Magenta 2 | white | white | white | normal | unknown |
Also see this page: pyrite
Extract from forum posting on : http://www.atitd.net/forum/showpost.php?p=63824&postcount=8
White is just the absence of any colour. Let's take an easy example: Say you are looking at one type of petals, and for these CC adds one cyan, MM adds one magenta, YY adds one yellow. (Note: This example is over simplified - in reality, it is more likely that you need something like YYP for yellow petals, and that maybe PYCM enlarges the lily a bit, etc).
Now if you had a genome like MCMMYCMYCMYMM, this would mean that your petals look magenta (2 times MM for magenta in there). The petals would be white if you had something like MCMYCMYCMYMYCMYCY, where there is no instance of CC, MM, or YY.
Your Morning X Crown crossbreeds all resulting in different flowers is not surprising - if all crossbreeds were deterministic, we would have a very limited total number of crossbreeding options. The left and right parts of the genomes are not necessarily split up right in the middle, and there appear to be additional random mutations, the nature of which we can only guess at this point. Looking at your page, I would argue that CMY looks correct - quite a few children of flowers that have "red" characteristics seem to end up having magenta in those places, which means that they have lost the yellow part of the characteristic and kept the magenta one.
One problem with crossbreeding is that you can only take the entire left part of one flower's genome and the entire right part of another's. So let's go back to the silly example above and say you want blue. Let's say that your yellow flower has YYMYYCYYCMYMYCYM (3 instances of "YY"), and your cyan one has MCCYMCCYCCYMYCMCYMY (3 instances of "CC"). There wouldn't really be any good way of combining these two, since all the colour genes you want to keep are on the left hand side. Without stress breeding, you can't move any of these genes to the right, and you can't even say for certain where the characteristics you want to keep are.
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