Maybe me need more clarification
Correct on the by self and by Sib. ID's and even I goof them up.
Here is a brief explanation of various markings you will see on tags.
We will for the sake of argument consider the selfing of a wild collected Paphiopedilum venustum (So we don't anger the leave it alone envirenmentalist we will assume the plant was collected before 1970). The offspring could read on the tag Paph. venustum `Wild' X self. Now let us assume that those plants have grown up and that we have crossed 2 different ones in that group together. Now the tag could read Paph. venustum (`Domestic' X `Houseplant') Sib. cross or Paph. venustum (`Domestic' X `Houseplant') F2. If we were too take their offspring and cross them together we could say it was F3. If we were to take the protocorms (tinybabies in flask) and treat them with a Chromosome modifier such as colchicine or oryzaline and than had the resulting offspring chromosome counted to determine polyploidy we might call it Paph. venustum (`Domestic' X `Houseplant') 4n if the plant indicated a doubling of chromosomes or a tetraploid. If we than crossed that back to the mother jungle plant we could call it Paph. venustum (`Wild' X `Fat boy'4n) Outcross 3n.
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