Hungarian Heart potato leaf mystery

strax · April 23, 2011

I have flat of Hungarian heart seedlings. Out of the 36 plants, 7 have potato leaf foliage. This seems wrong because pl is recessive. A neighbor gave me 3 Hungarian heart plants last year and they were all regular leaf. i saved seed from 2 of them. The only thing that makes sense is that the plants that were given to me were grown from (unknown) crossed seed. I'm not sure about that either because all 3 plants produced identical fruit and I think he said that he usually grows only the Hungarian hearts. Human error is possible, but I am normally very careful. I have another batch of @12 growing, but they dont have their first true leaves yet.

any ideas? is it ever possible to see pl in a f1 (with one rl parent)?

thanks,

strax

April 23, 2011	#1
strax Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: z5 Posts: 146	Hungarian Heart potato leaf mystery I have flat of Hungarian heart seedlings. Out of the 36 plants, 7 have potato leaf foliage. This seems wrong because pl is recessive. A neighbor gave me 3 Hungarian heart plants last year and they were all regular leaf. i saved seed from 2 of them. The only thing that makes sense is that the plants that were given to me were grown from (unknown) crossed seed. I'm not sure about that either because all 3 plants produced identical fruit and I think he said that he usually grows only the Hungarian hearts. Human error is possible, but I am normally very careful. I have another batch of @12 growing, but they dont have their first true leaves yet. any ideas? is it ever possible to see pl in a f1 (with one rl parent)? thanks, strax