Awesome thread and posts!
I'm finally going to ask .. what is "lining out"? Even google can't help me with that ....
... and ... how do you get a bloom in seven months? Can you walk us through the life cycle of that seedling from sprout to bloom (rate of growth, care and feeding, amount of sun, temps, etc)? - I'm still waiting on a bloom from seeds planted in 2011, and we have 9 months of growing season ... and even if I started stored seed from the previous year during early spring I would miss getting blooms on all the EE, E, and EM's at the very least (too young at that point in the growing season...).
I'll second the question about the yellow streaking ... I know it is important to cull flaws, but I am also fascinated with how many flaws later turn out to be new breakthroughs down the line (UFs, etc). I think those of us who are hobby hybridizer-wannabes are more interested in pursuing the unusual or intriguing, but not if its just a bloom feature that indicates it is weak, sickly, or unstable (unrepeating)..
Also, thanks for mentioning that some DLs just die after blooming - I had a few do that this year and thought it was just because I was supposed to fertilize after bloom (though I did not do that for many others that ended up thriving after bloom... so I should have taken the clue lol!). Would you feel that is a plant characteristic that could be pretty easily bred out on an otherwise worthy cultivar, for those of us with too much time on our hands (hobby hybridizers)?
