It's really just a way to be safe on your sales. If it's not a big obvious striper, but a little bit of a stripe you call it a het and if it proves to be a straight up stripe your customer is happy regardless. From what I have experienced with stripes and hets some of the "hets" that have maybe just a few blocky saddles throw babies like a stripe. An actual striped boa could be anything from blocky saddles to a full stripe. Just better safe than having someone buy a boa as a stripe and it throwing babies like a het would numbers wise.

Bottom line is the homozygous striped boa is not always a defined visual look.
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Ed Lilley, www.constrictorsnw.com
www.reptileinsider.com

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