Thank you so much Maurice. This information really helps me understand what I am seeing in my seedling bed. We have had 5 or 6 frosts at this point, and what was previously a solid mass of green foliage looks like this:
Looking at some row comparisons, I see that row 11 is EV/SEV crosses, and the foliage is still green, but frozen. Row 12 is all DOR crosses, and the foliage is mostly yellowed, brown, withered.
Another example, Row 13 has SEV/DOR crosses and is yellowing, Row 14 has SEV/SEV and EV/EV crosses, which are green, but frozen at this point.
So it looks to me like seedlings strongly inherit the dormancy factor of their parents, with perhaps DOR being dominant. Many of these EV and SEV crosses came as bonuses with other seed purchases, though I think I did buy a number of SEV crosses, because I believed that they would survive here.
I am hoping that the energy that these ever-growing crosses will not have expended too much of their energy on creating foliage which gets frozen and can't function.
