Re: Re: HYB: reliability vs health

In a message dated 1/22/2006 6:52:22 A.M. Central Standard Time,  
lmann@volfirst.net writes:

<<definitely following BB's advice to cross everything with  everything, 
although I
didn't know that was his advice!).  >>
This was mentioned in at least one of his catalogs in the last 5 years, and  
again in St. Louis this past spring.  May not be his EXACT words.  But  the 
idea is right.  
 
He doesn't seem to be mixing in the plicatas.  But he's is crossing  many of 
the TB's to medians.  Almost all of the medians in this years  catalog have a 
TB in the parentage.  
 
Since I'm pulling this information from his catalog, it's all 5-7 years  down 
the road from what he's actually doing in the garden.  


 
 
Make more  crosses!  If you don't cross them, you can't  plant  them! 
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