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Originally Posted by Cookiemonster
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This is a side note but what is the difference in offspring of selfing and of sib cross... Im trying to figure out which would produce I guess more of the desired traits found in the original. Someone had mentioned that selfing often yields to less attractive plants with fewer desirable traits than the original.
If you have any info I would love to hear about it. |
Selfing limits the available genetic possiblilites to just the one parent, so the offspring would most likely be less variable. An outcross has double the genes to choose from so there are more possible combinations and should result in more variable seedlings.
We often don't know what a cross will yield. If your "desired traits" are not dominant it's just a shot in the dark. Breeding gets a bit tricky but we can get an idea of how a plant breeds by looking at some of its offspring crosses. Sometimes growes raise thousands of seedlings just to find the one genetic needle in a haystack.