AG's
Mark can't tell you how glad I am to know someone out there that is reading
the same book.
So after reading it, my conclusion was, that the system of selection in
place was as good as any------choosing from the biggest and heaviest.
Selfing would be totally useless unless you weed out the bad recessives.
Which might happen naturally with the system in place that the best would
make it to the weigh-offs and do well and the others basically culled.
IMHO---I think pure-breeding(selfing) you could gain consistency but also
the size might cap off ..
It appears that the out breeding seems to leave the door open that
heterogeneity is necessary for the sizes were seeing now.
I like what Mike Nepereny wrote as to try and fix the weight- wall thickness
then breed out with big size genes like the 705 stelts.
What I like most about AG's is it makes you want to learn and learn all you
can about growing things....MB
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