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Post by philagardener on Sept 3, 2015 20:39:25 GMT -5
Here's the f2 grow outs from CToT x Dolloff. Shape of beans, sizes, plant habit and productivity all extremely similar; flower colour and bean colours differ. Bean cross ferdzy , those are amazingly beautiful!
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Post by philagardener on Sept 3, 2015 5:45:34 GMT -5
reed , you are doing great there! As long as the parents were inbred lines (i.e. within each variety, their two copies of each gene were pretty uniform, so each was "pure" breeding with respect to the desired traits), the F1 should be relatively uniform but may be different from the parents (because each F1 gets one set of genes from each parent, the dominant traits will show). These plants can also show an effect called hybrid vigor (heterosis); there is a benefit to carrying genetic diversity, and that also is part of the allure of hybrids (and can also be a benefit in a genetically-diverse landrace). It is in the F2 that the different copies of each gene begin to segregate or reassort into different combinations (e.g. Mendel's peas). When two genes for a recessive trait come together, that individual will have a different character than its siblings that have genes for dominant traits (that will dominate or mask the recessive character). Reassortment continues over a number of generations (F3 and beyond), so depending on the extent of differences between the parental lines and the number of characteristics involved (pod color, plant height, etc. would be determined by different genes) it might take until the F7 to get back to a "pure" breeding line where all the offspring of a single plant look the same. But if you are selecting for only a single character, like purple seed, you can get there more quickly. And then you get to name your new variety! :>)
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Post by philagardener on Sept 2, 2015 21:34:00 GMT -5
Mine started out pretty good then a month of rain nearly everyday took it's toll. I have four foot tall broccoli that never made a single head, I wanted the spot to get ready for some fall stuff so transplanted it to a place it can just stay, maybe it will do something this fall or winter. My Spring broccoli finally started making buds a few weeks ago - hoping it might pick up some steam once cooler weather sets in.
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Post by philagardener on Aug 31, 2015 21:43:00 GMT -5
Really great looking, ethin !
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Post by philagardener on Aug 31, 2015 6:44:22 GMT -5
There is no username Brewster. That sounds like a very strange request.
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Post by philagardener on Aug 29, 2015 20:16:43 GMT -5
Those look great! Are the figs in the background close to ripe too?
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Post by philagardener on Aug 29, 2015 5:31:11 GMT -5
The offspring of two hybrids will vary due to different combinations of genes from the parents (each of whom was diverse).
Think of a bag with lots of different colored marbles and what it takes to draw out a certain set. The more marbles, the more different and complex the sets will be. It's an oversimplification, but there can be a lot of winning combinations. That keeps it interesting!
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Post by philagardener on Aug 28, 2015 5:50:42 GMT -5
It would be interesting to compare the data over a longer period to see how your growing season is changing.
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Post by philagardener on Aug 27, 2015 22:31:55 GMT -5
MMM, bresaola! There's a horrid cowswitz south toward Los Angeles that feedlots huge numbers of cattle, but they do/have made excellent bresaola. I dream of the day I have an earth-sheltered shipping container on the farm (the only way I have any hope of cool enough stabile temps to make salume or bresaola; farming where melons do well, I really want that sort of meat, to make my melons "sing". Wrap a thin slice of such dried meat around a piece of melon: opera! Maybe you could market those as "Diva in a Drape"
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Post by philagardener on Aug 27, 2015 22:22:18 GMT -5
Any public URL for a simple image file should work fine. The URL address must end with an image file type supported by Proboards (and most browsers) such as .jpg, .png or .gif Other kinds of URLs, like albums and other shells, are more complicated representations - essentially web pages containing a nested image. These URLs are easily distinguished because they don't end in one of those image file types. Such URLs cannot be used to insert an image because they are not simple image files (they can, however, be inserted as a link in your post). With some services, it is possible to get a direct URL to the image file in addition to the album representation, but for others that isn't simple. Unfortunately, Dropbox image "links" (which you can get by signing in to Dropbox and sharing an image) seem to be of this latter type and did not work on this forum when I tested them.
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Post by philagardener on Aug 27, 2015 6:19:35 GMT -5
Not that those beautiful pods are hard to see, by any stretch of the imagination, but having them carry further out is nice, as is the two pod per node trait.
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Post by philagardener on Aug 27, 2015 6:16:22 GMT -5
After growing inbred lines for some many years, growing out crossed material is just amazing! Every pod is like opening a new present! Those look really nice, oxbowfarm !
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Post by philagardener on Aug 26, 2015 20:38:26 GMT -5
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Post by philagardener on Aug 26, 2015 20:25:25 GMT -5
When the sun comes out after a storm has passed, the light on the hills can be amazing . . .
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Post by philagardener on Aug 26, 2015 20:21:20 GMT -5
Maybe the downside of using black plastic is that at harvest time the melons are sitting in little puddles of water... All the other ones i tried were not so good. Those look great, philip ! I've seen some folks elevate melons on small block of wood to help keep them drier.
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