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can someone please explain to me how to produce a gold dust corn. would they be the result from 1st gen breedings or how would it work? thanks

Gold dust's are "ultramel x caramel, so starting from scratch, if you had say a male ultramel and a female caramel, and you bred them together, you would produce ALL normal "looking" corns that would all be 100% heterozygous recessive gene carriers of these traits that comprise gold dusts. Then you would need to breed the babies back to each other when they matured to produce gold dusts.

Both parents have to have the exact same "like" genes to produce any gold dusts in the very first breeding. That goes for ANY recessive trait morph.

~Doug
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thats what i thought. thank you. does it matter what parent is what morph? or is it as long as 1 is ultramel and 1 is caramel

No, that doesn't matter at all which one is which morph.

~Doug
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You could also breed an ultramel to a butter corn. All the babies would be ultramel het. caramel (golddust), or amel het. caramel (butter)with no normals produced. You still would not get golddusts in the first generation, but at least all would be ultramel or amel and no normals.

Yes, that's very true Kevin, and would certainly eliminate producing normal hets.

~Doug
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I think we forget about the nuances in coloration of the "normal" hets produced by some pairings. Certainly the blood red or diffuse gene affects some of the normal hets produced, and I think the caramel gene also influences the coloration of normal hets produced. It appears some of these genes actually work like coloration in locality normals with influencing the babies produced to some degree. Oh well, just aimlessly thinking!!!

You could get more golddust corns first gen with the following pairings:

golddust x golddust (gives butters, ultra caramels, and golddusts)
golddust x butter (gives butters and golddusts)
Ultra caramel x butter (gives all golddusts)