Thought I would post a comparison here of two very similar crosses with surprisingly different outcomes. The two crosses are from Teresa Hill and both with objective of making spotted white and pink flowers. The first is blockbuster x white queen and the second is white knight x blockbuster. Blockbuster is heavily spotted on both the dorsal and petals with less red coloring so using it as a parent would hopefully get more spotting versus pink color. I’ve bloomed out several from of both crosses but here are the two most recent. The white queen cross has made spotted pinks across the 3 that I’ve bloomed whereas the the white knight cross has had finer spotting (possibly since the spotted was not used as the pod parent) and the dark brown lines on the petals. White queen and white knight are both skip Bartlett crosses but white knight uses green mystery as the green parent while white queen uses via virgenes. I believe green mystery (also a parent of elfstone) to possess recessive genetics for these lines whereas via virgenes does not as far as I can tell. I have also included a photo of a cross of smokestack lightning x stone lovely displaying the same lines (green mystery is a grandparent of stone lovely). I have seen similar markings on other stone lovely cross as well. It is wild how different these two flowers are for how similar the genetics are.
