"BTW Stout considered evergreen to be dominant in hybridizing"
That's interesting. It may camouflage the dormant genes or it may result in those that show semi-evergreen tendencies. I ended up with a bunch of pods from Calico Spider which is evergreen and on most of them I didn't have the pollen parent marked. Lillian's Vapor Trail was the 'go to' pollen donor for dips when it was blooming and when the sweat bees hadn't robbed the pollen, so it would be the odds on favorite for the parent, but other DLs were used at times. I ended up accumulating those pods that weren't marked and throwing them all together into a couple of larger pots. Germination was very good, so I have two pots of Calico Spider seedlings that are fairly crowded. Mostly those seedlings retained green leaves like the known parent, but I thought some simply died as would be expected in a crowded situation. However, I was poking among all the mess and there are those that appeared to have died re-emerging. Probably less than 20% of the Calico Spider shut down, but at least some did. If the evergreen expression is dominant or partially dominant it would easily fit the scenario of what I can observe there. However, conversely Grey Witch seeds, no matter who the pollen parent was purported to have been, shut down. That was also true of all the seeds where Milady Greensleeves was the purported pollen parent. I thought crosses involving those parents had simply died. I'll have to track down those pots containing those crosses and see if the other parents are considered evergreen or not. I know at least one cross using two evergreen parents had mostly evergreen seedlings, but have siblings that show dormant behavior. I hope I get time to check it out. Those that have restarted are catching up fast with those that stayed green all along.
