Re: Selfing
Just a theory; open for disagreement, only time I have used selfed is when
I haven't
had a choice, how many are the same & just trying to, make that non choice seem
like they planned it. I grow 5-6 plants but have been caught on occasion
with out male
flowers on planned breeding & resorted to self. Am I alone ???????
At 05:56 PM 2/5/03, you wrote:
>Here are some thoughts that I posted on BP.com and thought it a good subject
>to get going on both lists. So what are we seeing these days? Whats
>working?
>
> Most of the hotties come from heterozygous(outbreed) parents. The idea of
>selfing is to isolate a gene that gives you a desired trait. It works well
>when you have a specific trait in mind like flavor or color. By selfing you
>can increase the probability of seeing the trait you want. But you can also
>drop traits such as vigor and disease resistance invisible traits. Of course
>the idea we want with selfing is to increase the predictability of monsters.
>I think that we are always going to be stuck with a small amount of seed in
>a batch that demonstrate huge and heavy and the rest somewhere in between.
>Why because there are many genes that contribute to that outcome and the
>trait were looking for is so heavily influenced by the environmental
>factors. If a gene is like a coin and the law of probability says you can
>hit heads 50% of the time ...imagine the probability of lining up 5 coins
>and hitting heads. So I don't see how selfing is going to work if you don't
>plant out the entire stock and pick the best....and do it again and again
>what exactly are we trying to isolate large root system, triple tap roots at
>each junction...we have to be specific and all the seeds would have to be
>treated equally........but the jury is still out...not enough data...to
>know...MB
>
>Will the odds ever improve?
>
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