So, I can’t say for sure with Freakshow. I haven’t made any crosses with it, only increase of Supafreak. For ABC crosses (I know you didn’t ask about those), the first generation will not exhibit any mutant leaves. The 2nd generation should have about 25%.
I want to say @RandomHumanoid has better info on Freakshow types and how they cross.
ETA: I’ll try to find his post about it in a minute.
I made that thread kind of long and messy imo. But the main thing with freakshow crosses is gonna be that there’s an X-linked recessive gene in there. So its better to use Freakshow females in your cross. Then in the F1s all the males will be slightly freaky and distinguishable from the ladies. If you use a freakshow male in the first cross, the F1 males will likely be lacking that gene.
yes that will work. Or you can use both F1 males and females together, but the ratios should be way better if you just do a backcross to the original full freakshow female.
Once you get to F2 and are looking for freakshows again, be careful because there is a lot of freaky looking offspring that aren’t actually full freakshows. Like they only got part of the genes. So just plant a ton of seeds, so you can weed out the regular plants, then a little later, weed out the partial freakshow plants. Sometimes its more obvious, and some times it takes a little longer to see.
I just got some through to Queensland 2 months ago, standard greeting card with flips and washers. My boy out there warned that they might not make it because if the scanners but is sailed on through. It took a month but he got them.
Edit: little more than 2 months. Sent March 9th recieved April 13th.