Re: Selfing
Well said Mike.............wayne
----- Original Message -----
From: Mike and Vickie Brock <vbrock@mcn.org>
To: <pumpkins@hort.net>
Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 4:56 PM
Subject: Selfing
> 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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