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Post by templeton on Apr 11, 2014 18:49:13 GMT -5
How should I name mass cross seed lots? Is there a standard way of doing it? For example, I've crossed up carrots by growing them next to each other. I know one parent of the seed, that is the plant I harvest it from. So how should I designate the seed from that parent? For example, if I've mass crossed 'Baby' carrot with 'Lobbericher', and I collect the seed from 'Baby', I'm currently calling it 'Baby' F1 X mass cross. Does that sound reasonable, or is there a better or standard way of doing it?
T
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Post by diane on Apr 11, 2014 20:26:31 GMT -5
I just call such seed o.p. (open pollinated)
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Post by oxbowfarm on Apr 11, 2014 20:37:42 GMT -5
You could do any number of things. It might be useful to give the mass cross population a name like "Carrot MC 2013" and then you can keep track of the female parent lines if you like by regular crossing conventions like you stated- Baby F1 X MC 2013. If you don't care about the mother lines then I'd just name the population by the year you did the cross.
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Post by templeton on Apr 11, 2014 21:12:02 GMT -5
Diane,
I like that use of 'open pollinated' as well, but lots of folks in heritage vegetable circles use it to mean something else.
Thanks for the suggestion Oxbow, - of course, I've complicated things by mass crossing the mass cross with another variety, but the MC 2013 designation would work, at least for the first generation. depends how I proceed from there, I suppose.
T
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Apr 12, 2014 0:19:12 GMT -5
The first year I typically call things by the name of the parents such as "Glass Gem X popcorn". Then invariably by the F2 I discover types that I want to keep separate and I give them a name such as "blue popcorn". For ongoing projects I call them names like "Butternut squash 2009" "butternut squash 2013" etc... With the red podded pea project I called them "Red podded F1", "Red podded F2". I am currently at "Red podded F3". When I save the seed this year it will be divided into many groups with names like: "Yellow snap pea", "Red snow pea", "Purple Soup pea", and etc.
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Post by billw on Apr 12, 2014 11:32:59 GMT -5
I name mine "Mother x OP". If I don't know the mother, then simply "OP". Obviously, these designations have nothing to do with stability in this context.
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Post by raymondo on Apr 12, 2014 17:13:28 GMT -5
Once things start getting mixed up it's not realistic for the name to hold all the relevant information. Any designation will do. Keep the details elsewhere.
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