HYB: Planning crosses
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- Subject: HYB: Planning crosses
- From: D* E*
- Date: Sat, 13 Nov 1999 07:10:02 -0600
From: "Donald Eaves" <donald@eastland.net>
Hello Folks,
All those seeds to plant! Made me think about planned crosses.
Since I am interested more in using the aril family in making
crosses, I wondered how on earth to make plans. They tended
to bloom earlier than the TBs so how is one to manage the
aril x TB? Save pollen from one season to the next? Or just
plan on making the TB x aril and let the pod parent remain
primarily in the TB category. This last year I only managed to
get a pod set on one 1/4 aril, so any resulting seedlings I grow
will be TB by class. This was true of nearly all the seeds I
ended with. I have very few seeds which would produce a plant
which would fall into the 1/4 arilbred class, but nearly all I have
would be 1/8.
Which brings another question. There are several less than
1/4 aril cultivars out there. What is their makeup when/if they
get crossed back to the aril family? Are they likely to be classed
as 1/4, 1/2, 3/4 etc., but still contain more aril genes? Or do the
way the genes pair up in the original crosses make them pretty
much the same as any non aril ancestry TB?
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