Jayb shared seeds with me from her Elisabeth x Kent Blue cross. I had both pink and purple flowered, green mangetout podded, peas from these seeds. I am just packing these seeds. I have kept the pink flowering separate. The second packet is mixed, just randomly collected pods from pink and purple flowered plants. Looking at these two batches of F3 seeds, there are differences in the seeds. The pink flowering plants produced sand or brown coloured seeds, the sand coloured seeds have brown dots. The second batch contains seeds that have purple spotted seeds. There are no purple spots in the pink flowered batch. I wonder whether purple spots signify that a plant is going to be purple flowered? And I also wonder whether purple spots would have allowed Jayb (or myself) to preselect the F2 seeds (although there are some dark brown seeds in both batches, so it would not have been a definite preselection perhaps).
I am thinking about the other cross ElisabethxSugar Magnolia (Sugar Beth), where I had no pink flowering plants at all. Is it possible to predict from the colour of seeds arising from a cross, whether the result will be pink or purple flowering?
Two photos added showing the pink flowered batch (no purple speckles) and the mixed batch (which contain seeds with purple speckles). Hope the difference shows up on the photos
I am thinking about the other cross ElisabethxSugar Magnolia (Sugar Beth), where I had no pink flowering plants at all. Is it possible to predict from the colour of seeds arising from a cross, whether the result will be pink or purple flowering?
Two photos added showing the pink flowered batch (no purple speckles) and the mixed batch (which contain seeds with purple speckles). Hope the difference shows up on the photos
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