Regarding Martian Double Red Sweet Corn

[Alan]

I know a lot of folks have had an interest in Alan Kapulers work with Martian Double Red Sweet Corn, Martian Jewels, and so forth. I was particularly interested about the lines that were bred from these experiments and what the parents of the crosses and resultant OP and segregates were so I asked him, the answer was pretty interesting. For those interested in the high Anthocyanin lines, here is Alan Kapuler's Response:

Martian Red=Purple Martian=Martian Purple came from the observation that the purple trait was all or none ie maternally inherited and it arose from Hopi germplasm in combination of one of the sweet corns we have been growing for decades, likely our selection of Platinum Lady to give True Platinum
now from this original line we crossed it to Ruby Queen and derived Double Red.
then we crossed it to Silver Choice and that gave rise to Martian Jewels
then we crossed it to Breeder's Bicolor and maybe one more.
From Double Red we have recently been working with the cross with seF1Miracle and have several generations beyond the very nice crop of F1 seeds. When I ran out of Double Red, I filled orders with F3 Red Miracle so folks wouldn't be disappointed. Seems to have worked.
So that is the origin of the high anthocyanin sweet corns; public domain plant breeding.
AMK

[Hristo]

I did not knew that Red Miracle is F3, thought it is F2 (was not marked on the package).

Thanks for the info!