Re: hybridizing
Hello,
Remember that in simple Mendelian genetics, crossing two alike parents
reproduces a proportion of the parental genotype 'exactly' only with regard to
one 'trait', such as wrinkled pea skins.
In practice with siberians, color and shape and size and texture are all
controlled by a multitude of genes which are statistically impossible to
reproduce even by repeating the same cross hundreds of times. In essence,
there is only one Careless Sally, no duplication of the cross that produced
careless sally could produce the same exact combinations again in less than
millions of tries.
This isn't to say that similar things could not be produced, however, this
opens a whole new area of debate. I personally feel that a nurseryman who sells
every old looking blue siberian as "Caesar's Brother" is committing a crime.
They may be similar (but usually aren't) and the fact is they are just not the
same plant.
What would be the benefit of producing purebred seeds? It takes siberians
three years to grow and bloom from seeds, so why not work with established
divisions?
Andrew Wheeler
Hybridizer in Chief, Fox Brook Iris
Lewiston,ME/Colrain, MA
Zone 4,5
No permanent sig line, my spanish prof and my track coach, along with my
girlfriend and my study groups don't need to know or would just ask why it wass
on there...
Peter & Debora Totoonchie wrote:
> I have a question about hybridizing... if you cross a plant with itself
> (example....careless sally X careless sally) what will the seeds produce?
> Is it like an F1 generation where 1/4 are true to the parents or will each
> seedling produce a different flower like a scramble with each seed having a
> different genetic code.
>
> Are there any Siberians that are purebred enough to produce true
> marketable) seeds???
>
> On another note, I finally have a personal webpage up ,it does have a page
> on Siberians, Jan and Jean-Marc have kindly granted permission to use a
> couple of their photos until I have more of my own. If you have time to
> check it out and let me know how it works on you computer, I would
> appreciate it. If you like it of course, but also if you find any errors,
> Spelling is not by high point!!LOL
> Just click on the link below and if you are on line it should take you
> there.
> Starting from scratch ( learning HTML) was a long learning process, but if
> I can do it *anyone can*.... If you have been dreaming of having a website,
> there are links to resources I used to build my site on the home page.. so
> go to it.. deb
>
> http://www.geocities.com/debinca1/index.html
>
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