A more purple Lavender?

[Ixchel]

Hey I haven't been here for a while but I was looking at images of Lavenders and noticed that most are very blue. I don't know if it's because of the photos not catching the true colours but they reminded me of a slate blue with a drop of red washed over them.
Anyways, I was thinking to myself that perhaps making a Strawberry Lavender for example might make it more purple or even magenta (which is 50% red and blue anyways)!
Are there any pics of Red Coat/Strawberry/Etc Lavenders? Is anyone working on these? Is it possible? I'm a little rusty with corn genetics.

 

[Ryan_J]

I've got a charcoal lavender with purple grey saddles and a pale purple body with alot of pink tones to him. Amazing looking snake but I just cant take a picture that shows his color.

 

[Ixchel]

Hmmm that's interesting. I wonder if it's the charcoal or if pictures really just can't pick up the red hues.

 

[Ryan_J]

Never posted pictures before but if it works thats him being held with an anery lavender (with the darker sadles) for comparison. I did push the color saturation to try to get his color right but Im not that talented. Sorry for the poor quality just a quick snap for you. He is still more pastelly purple pink than this shows,

 

[Ixchel]

Yes it worked! It's a lot more obvious against an anery. It sucks that you pretty much have to manip photos to get true to life colors. I've always considered getting a lavender but never seeing one IRL has stopped me. Especially not anything older than hatchlings.

 

[Susan]

I suspect, but can't prove, that this Sunkissed het lavender is red factored. Sibling Sunkissed and other Sunkissed I've hatched out or own can't compare to the red color he has. Unfortunately (for me anyway) I sold him to a great home.

I also suspect that his orchid (Sunkissed lavender) brother is red factored as his coloration was much more colorful and orange than any of his orchid siblings. HIM I kept! He might give you an idea what a strawberry lavender might look like. Their mother is known het hypo (or it at least paired with hypo as I've been told some of my hypos might be strawberry, but I have no proof again), father had unknown hets.

Oh, photos are after their first sheds, so they basically hatched that colorful!

 

[Ixchel]

Thanks for the pictures, Susan. That does help make things easier to imagine. It's interesting that the red factor might be making him more colorful overall. He's very orange but I assume that's from the Sunkissed? I forgot if it's purely a pattern morph when mixed... I know pure Sunkisseds are very orange. If it's true I think it's safe to assume a red factor lavender would more or less be magenta. :O
I think one of you guys needs to get on this. As much as I'd love to one day make my own morphs I'm no where near ready to start breeding animals. Salmon lavenders wouldn't hurt either now that I think about it... :licklips:

 

[Susan]

Sunkissed affects the pattern and may or may not have a hypo effect on the color. As for the increased yellow seen in quite a few Sunkissed, that tends to come in later (as it does in most morphs) and I wouldn't expect it in a hatchling after just one shed. That clutch was my first time hatching out orchids so I really can't say if that coloration is typical or not. Here are the only photos I have of each of the sibling orchids in that clutch. There was some severe kinking and other issues so none of these survived long. And as I said, the mother is known het hypo and the father was a virgin male from Serpenco so who knows what hets he might have been carrying.

 

[Ixchel]

True. In comparison he IS a lot more colourful. Well thanks for helping give me an idea either way.