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My corn is coming on 9 months or there abouts and his colours have just started to show alot more. But only in the head to about 4 inches down, and from the tip of his tail to about 3 inches up, but the centre is still fairly dull, is this common?

Cheers Anthony

This seems pretty common to me. I've noticed stronger colors and more pronounced patterns closer to the head. It seems common with young motleys. Maybe someone with more experience than me can explain why this happens. It's been bugging me for years.
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I tend to think this applies more for okeetee,classic,normal phases. Maybe its that some people breed corns to get a designer morph of their liking and the corns are further removed from their original genetic wild type colors. I would be surprised to find more than a handful of people that could sell you a wild type corn that is not het for something..LOL. I'm sure that has some influence on it.

I had a similar discussion about this on another forum in the past and its fair to say that to get an idea about how a wild-type corn will turn out, you should really see the parents first. This doesn't always apply with the morphs though. I think it has a lot to do with the fact that no one really knows what causes the reds/oranges/yellows to show up the way they do on wild type corns. Multiple genes at work as opposed to 1 gene affecting many of the corn morphs.

Anyway, just my opinion
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