When delenatii is crossed with armeniacum, color suppressing genes in delenatii suppress the yellow in armeniacum, making the beautiful, white flowers of Paph Armeni White.

Does anyone have any idea what might happen with an F2 generation cross of Armeni White to Armeni White? Will some of the recessive genes assert themselves resulting in yellow or pink color? I know that Armeni White was back crossed to armeniacum and the resultant hybrid was named Paph Many Are White.

When delenatii is crossed with armeniacum, color suppressing genes in delenatii suppress the yellow in armeniacum, making the beautiful, white flowers of Paph Armeni White.

Does anyone have any idea what might happen with an F2 generation cross of Armeni White to Armeni White? Will some of the recessive genes assert themselves resulting in yellow or pink color? I know that Armeni White was back crossed to armeniacum and the resultant hybrid was named Paph Many Are White.

Could be!:confused:

Ramon:D

Ross -

According to current wisdom, a backcross of a primary hybrid should produce offspring that display varying degrees of its parents' traits, and trend toward displaying one parent's traits over the other. So an Armeni wWhite that looks like a delenatii, or like an armeniacum. But you might get a white flower with tesselation, or a solid pink without any markings (which is what it sounds like you are trying for). At any rate, I think too few backcrosses of primary hybrids are made. Not necessarily selfings, but out crosses.

Ross,

In theory you should get 25% yellows, unless there is more than one gene involved, in which case you would get a much smaller percentage (or none).

Kim