Re: Parentages
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- Subject: Re: Parentages
- From: R* R*
- Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 18:31:40 -0400
excerpt from Harold,
> Keep in mind that the female contribution to all four fruits is
>identical. Therefore, if you selfed all 4 fruits, the seeds from all the
>fruits are similar and there is no reason not to put them in a single
>jar. In practice, I might cross the first female flower, self the second
>flower, and sib or testcross the 3rd and 4th flowers. I guess a ....
In genetics tc probably has an importance, but in competitive pumpkin
growing, I think that very few will actually have more than 2 pumpkins per
plant.
Very often, a grower will use pollen from several male to mate 1 female. If
the male flowers come from a different plant than that of the female, this
is obviuosly a cross. If using multiple male flowers (from the same plant as
the female) to pollinate, what happens to the genes? Are the male flowers
from a same plant genetically different? Should this type of pollination be
note?
A few not so serious names for this type of pollination come to mind...
open-selfed, cross-sibbed, self-crossed...you get the picture ;-)
Till next time...
Rock jenaipas@netrover.com
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