Re: hybridizing question
Thank you everyone for your reply's. Chick you seem to be thinking in the same
area as me. From what little I know about genetics, I should stand a chance to get
what I'm looking pollinating either direction. Rick has answered my question,
although it will take many more questions (which I will save for another day)
until I can apply this knowledge. Next year I will be ready for hybridizing
Ray W z5
alias Dr. Frankenhosta
Chick wrote:
> Rick
>
> I still have some questions. I understand (barely) about plastids, but was
> under the impression that they were involved mostly with variegation.
>
> My confusion has mainly to do with leaf shape, size and texture. It seems to
> me that a nicely streaked plant with poor leaf characteristics crossed with a
> plant with excellent foliage yields mostly plants with poor foliage. I would
> expect that at least 1/4th of the seedlings would have leaf shape, size, etc in
> favor of the pollen parent. I recognize that there may be a combination of
> genes involved, and other factors that would skew the percentage, but it seems
> to me that darn near everything looks like mostly like mama. I don't think
> self pollination is much of a problem with the way I handle the flowers.
>
> Of course, if everything worked the way we expected, breeding new hostas might
> be so easy it wouldn't be any fun.
>
> Chick
>
> I deleted most of your message here to save space.
> Rick Grazzini wrote:
>
> > Chick, Clyde, Ran et al. ---
> > Let me jump in with a geneticist's point of view.
>
> > Rick G
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