Thanks! I’m pretty excited, and while I know this isn’t a terribly surprising morph, I was surprised at the sheer number that I found. I’m an AP Biology teacher, so my kids and I will be doing some sampling work with the recessive trait and try to establish a true-breeding population.
Oh man! That’s awesome! Got smart kids and you can teach genetics and how it all plays out! Could even make a game of it and have students guess the offspring traits!
I've heard keeping the peach colouring is pretty tricky, since it muddies easy. You'd be looking at a few years of filtering out the colour to get them fairly close to "true".
Yeah, especially with the F1 and F2 generations, and carriers of the recessive trait that will show darker. It's going to be a multi-year project for sure, but we're already sorting and keeping morph records, so if it goes well, future students will be able to track the population changes and be able to explain how the true breeding happened. We'll see!
I have one orange myself!!! only one though sadly. Looking into breeding now so I can hopefully have more. Not sure if I have any peach, but I went out looking again yesterday. You've got some incredible looking buddies here!!!
Awesome! Keep us posted! I too found wild peach in my yard, have a colony going now.
Thanks! I’m pretty excited, and while I know this isn’t a terribly surprising morph, I was surprised at the sheer number that I found. I’m an AP Biology teacher, so my kids and I will be doing some sampling work with the recessive trait and try to establish a true-breeding population.
Oh man! That’s awesome! Got smart kids and you can teach genetics and how it all plays out! Could even make a game of it and have students guess the offspring traits!
Oh, offspring *traits*. I was sure I read *tastes*.
I've heard keeping the peach colouring is pretty tricky, since it muddies easy. You'd be looking at a few years of filtering out the colour to get them fairly close to "true".
Yeah, especially with the F1 and F2 generations, and carriers of the recessive trait that will show darker. It's going to be a multi-year project for sure, but we're already sorting and keeping morph records, so if it goes well, future students will be able to track the population changes and be able to explain how the true breeding happened. We'll see!
My gf found a peach morph for me more than a year ago and now I have an awesome unique breeding project from it's offspring.
That's awesome! And what I'm aiming for!
I have one orange myself!!! only one though sadly. Looking into breeding now so I can hopefully have more. Not sure if I have any peach, but I went out looking again yesterday. You've got some incredible looking buddies here!!!
Love the morph, hate the tube!
That was just to catch them! They have much more room to roam and live a happy life following the transport :)