That's some mental gymnastics right there. I used the BackwardsN method successfully before but that one seems to have much better odds even if it's a longer line. I'll have to try it on my new island.
The Paleh method is slower than the BackwardsN method unless you're very space limited. Even though the probabilities are higher with the Paleh method, the extra steps will slow you down most of the time. The Asteriation genepool method is the fastest method on average. It's similar to the BackwardsN method, but you breed black and purple roses in the beginning to get 1010 red roses much more reliably (100% reliably in fact). It also includes a more reliable genepool where you clone and breed instead of just mix and breed. As a bonus, you're likely to get all of the other roses since the path requires purple and black and you're likely to get pink and orange as byproducts.
That’s an interesting thought. I may as well try it. I have lots of the hybrid reds and special whites and all other flowers.
Any orange rose should work okay. I just ran all of the possible orange genotypes through the flower breeding simulator and they all produce the special orange rose at least 25% of the time when bred with the special white rose. Just make sure when you are breeding orange roses with the special white roses that your orange roses are not in a position where they can clone (i.e. don't use a checkered pattern). Having individual pairs is best.
I like the guide by Khaelis, although I like Yue's guide more because it compares the different methods and goes into more of the technical details. I know most people are probably not interested in that, but making things as efficient as possible helps a lot especially if you're solo watering. The thing I don't like about the method you used is that it tells you to go out of your way to breed a pink rose when your ultimate goal is to get a rose without the extra gene that a pink rose has. The pink rose method gained popularity because it's obviously easier to tell a pink rose apart from a red rose than it is to keep track of red roses with different genetics, but it's not that hard to keep your red roses apart and going the pink rose route is a lot slower. With 5 waterers it's not a huge deal, but you're potentially adding months to the timeline if you're solo watering.
