My orange cosmos bred....a pink cosmo?

[Ably.Saucey]

I've been breeding all the random hybrids that show up in my town lately, but when I was walking a long my beach, I discovered that my four natural orange cosmos had a pink one in the middle!
I didn't know that could be done, it's kinda neat.
My 3 purple pansies bred an orange pansie, (they were kinda close to another orange pansie to be honest, but I've always thought that particular one to be hacked) so I have some weird hybrid luck in my town, I guess.

 

[Lanstar]

I think I know why odd breeding pairs happen:

When you breed and get non-hybrids, those non-hybrids gain a property of the two flowers that came from it. For instance, if you paired a white and red cosmos together, and bred a red one from them, that red one you bred has properties of both the red and white parents!

What may have happened is you took a red cosmos bred like that, and derived an orange one from it. Thus the 'white' properties transferred to that orange cosmos, and was chosen to breed that pink one you just got.

 

[Ably.Saucey]

I think I know why odd breeding pairs happen:

When you breed and get non-hybrids, those non-hybrids gain a property of the two flowers that came from it. For instance, if you paired a white and red cosmos together, and bred a red one from them, that red one you bred has properties of both the red and white parents!

What may have happened is you took a red cosmos bred like that, and derived an orange one from it. Thus the 'white' properties transferred to that orange cosmos, and was chosen to breed that pink one you just got.

Cool, thank you for the info.

 

[tinycomet]

Hi! I was recently directed to this site which shows the possibilities of breeding, and just as Lanstar said the two orange could make pink due to the properties carried by other flowers.

 

[allainah]

i've had orange cosmos breed from pink ones before and vice versa,
i guess similar to what Lanstar said but i think it's just because orange ones are "red & yellow cosmos" and pinks are "red and white" so on the rare occasion it will do that

edit: ooo nvm what i said doesn't make sense now ^^^ haha. I was thinking of you having pink & orange cosmos next to each other but that wasn't the case. I agree w/ what Lanstar said though

 

[Lanstar]

If it was 2 pinks making an orange one, It would be due to one of the pinks deriving from a red cosmos that was bred from a red-yellow pair. Thus, the 'yellow' property got passed on to form the orange one.