RE: Pollination and seeds
- To: "'pumpkins@mallorn.com'" <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
- Subject: RE: Pollination and seeds
- From: "* C* <c*@chmc.org>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 11:55:10 -0700
John,
It's the seeds that get the characteristics of the parents not the
fruit. The results of your cross will show up in next years plants from
those seeds. The fruit you have on your plants this year will have the
characteristics it gets from it's parent plants. For that matter the
whole plant is the result of the cross of its parent plants. If you
have short or tall leaf stems or green or yellow vines all depends on
what it got from the parents.
Chris Michalec
Covington, WA
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Heilman [SMTP:jheilman@asd.sccoe.k12.ca.us]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 3:03 AM
> To: pumpkins@mallorn.com
> Subject: Pollination and seeds
>
> Before I read some posts here I naively thought that if I pollinated
> one
> of my plants with another, the resulting fruit would be have
> characteristics of both parents, just like humans. But I think I have
> read that the mixed characteristics will only show up in the seeds, so
> no results of crossing until next year.
>
> Which is it?
>
> Help!
> John
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