Re: Selfing

Perhaps... I don't have enough personal experience to
say one way or the other, I'm just going on what I've
read and what I've seen from history.

Its not necessarily selfing that produces an F2... but
some limiting of the gene pool. Cross a good seed with
it's own mother for example. And, its not really the
"self-ed" seed that we're after, but the product of
two pure lines. Once those are crossed, that seems to be
when the fireworks start.

Selfing for consistency, then crossing for vigor...

I'm probably way in over my head by now. Anyone else
want to jump in?

Regards, Cliff






From: Mike and Vickie Brock <vbrock@mcn.org>
Reply-To: pumpkins@hort.net
To: <pumpkins@hort.net>
Subject: Re: Selfing
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 15:27:22 -0800

Cliff ,

My experience from selfed seed has not been good.  I must have gotten some
of those rotten recessives....you flush out

In one case the plant was extremely hard to work with and brittle......

In another case lack vigor......

Poor fruit set...etc....

Personally I would endorse sibbing.....unless you can weed threw the
crap...MB

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