Re: Bloom Report
- To: i*@Rt66.com
- Subject: Re: Bloom Report
- From: t*@Lanl.GOV (Tom Tadfor Little)
- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 11:37:30 -0600
Sharon writes
:Maiden bloom of first-generation halfbreds was exciting, but "awesome" better
:describes the maiden bloom of the first seedlings from my crosses of a
:first-generation halfbred with conventional halfbreds. "Grandfather" was
:CHINESE
:EMPRESS (Blyth, 1988) and "grandmother" was one of the Holden tetraploid
:seedlings. Typical seedlings were much better than the average halfbred
:seedling in form and I was quite pleased with the range of colors and patterns
:that showed up.
This is good stuff! Please elaborate. What aril characteristics do the seedlings
have? Are there characteristics you can attribute to the use of a modern TB
in the breeding?
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Tom Tadfor Little tlittle@lanl.gov -or- telp@Rt66.com
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