HYB: TB: question - making wider falls/hafts etc?



Linda, since the keeper odds are one in a thousand, I would risk saying that the characterictics you described (narrow, marked hafts; drooping falls, etc) are dominant and the overlapping, ice cream scoop falls are recessive. Or, maybe some just have better luck than I, or, maybe, they have more space and seed. 

I think I remember Keith writing he planted 18,000 seeds last fall.  Whew!  Mind boggling.  And, he is a one man operation.  I couldn't provide for that many.

Then, there is Schreiners with lots of help whose employees do the actual mechanics of hybridizing.

The Schreiner and Keppel output doesn't vary all that much either.

I think Rick Ernst smears most of the pollen for Cooley's with an equal output.

All seem to be quite careful in what is released.  I am sure a lot of us would be quite pleased with some of their culls.

Walter Moores
Enid Lake, MS USA 7/8 (with a budding TB)



 

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