Various Neos, 2017 in Review

[Shoreguy]

Originally Posted by Hakumin

He said that to make the hybrids, he chose a good Manjushage parent and a good colored flower parent and crossed them. Out of the offspring, the majority of them end up having white, single spurred flowers. Next in frequency are the colored flower single spurred plants. Next are the white three spurs which make up only 5-10% of the offspring, and finally only 0.1% of them bloom colored three spur flowers. Overall however, apparently only 1 or 2 out of 100,000 total seedlings will produce a nice dark color paired with three spurs and a good flower shape.

Does this apply to Neofinetia Mangekyo? Mine does have 3 pink spurs although I would not characterize the secondary spurs as being dark pink.

Barampung seems to have a number of them being offered over time, indicating higher percentages may be involved. Unless of course mericloning was done but I understand with neos that is frowned upon.

Another possibility is that he has built up a population of 3 pink spurred ones and is selling divisions. Considering that some of the offerings are single growth plants that don't appear to have ever flowered, that might be what is going on.