Odd variegated seedlings common from a R. maximowicziana hyb

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The female parent of this seedling commonly has seedlings (about 10% or so) that look like this. So far over the years they all eventually died. Have others had parents that tended to have seedlings that do this?

Many from Schoener’s Nutkana did that for me for several years until I stopped germinating anything from it. Gorgeous plant in itself, but severely prone to rusty babies. Nothing ever germinated worth keeping for anything other than oddities.