greywind
Well-Known Member
. . .They were represented to be stable F2 beans.
You need to brush up on your Mendelian genetics if you think F2 generations will produce stability across the board. Even starting with homozygous parents to breed the F1 generation (most breeders work with heterozygous [poly-hybrid] parents), you'll see variance and representation of both dominant and recessive traits from the F2 breeding round, regardless of selection (see Punnet Square). Hence the testing status of these beans. It sucks that the test round went so bad, but that's what testing is for.