I am looking for some violacea alba. Now wait a sec, yes I know people out there claim to sell them, and even more claim to have them. From what I have seen, this is a representation of scammers and the scammed.
They talk about their "alba" as semi-alba, or that most of the selfings turn out alba, some having a light amount of pink, etc. These are bogus, and are not the desireable alba, but merely a washed out form that is NOT alba whatsoever, even if you did manage to get one with the colors all white. In a selfing of an alba, they must all come out white, and even then this does not guarantee an alba, this is just the minimum standard. I'm looking for real alba, the kind that when you cross with a normal color variety, in the first generation you get only normal colored ones. If you get some that are a somewhere between, you have a fake alba, as most of you are aware albanism is recessive. It will only show up in the F2s, and should be only about a quarter of the plants or less. I'm even dubious of yellow in the flower, but I won't hold my breath. So in short, will the real alba please step forward? No hopefuls please, and no poorly represented anthocyanins. What reason do you have to believe that yours is other than reputation? Have you bred with it? Please let me know, Steve Topletz
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