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maf · February 5, 2015

Since Early Girl F1 is PL both its parents must be too. I have no idea what else will be segregating in Early Girl genetics, depends how close the parents are, but there will be some segregation. Maybe for flavor, maybe for disease resistance, maybe for any number of traits. Always a good idea to grow several F1's when one or more of the parents is an F1, you will have quite a bit of segregation in the F1 of this cross, although not much of it will be obvious at this stage.

Edit: to put it another way, the half of the genetic information inherited from the stable parent will be the same in all F1's, but the half of the genetic information inherited from the F1 hybrid will be segregating like an F2 would.

February 5, 2015	#4
maf Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: England Posts: 512	Since Early Girl F1 is PL both its parents must be too. I have no idea what else will be segregating in Early Girl genetics, depends how close the parents are, but there will be some segregation. Maybe for flavor, maybe for disease resistance, maybe for any number of traits. Always a good idea to grow several F1's when one or more of the parents is an F1, you will have quite a bit of segregation in the F1 of this cross, although not much of it will be obvious at this stage. Edit: to put it another way, the half of the genetic information inherited from the stable parent will be the same in all F1's, but the half of the genetic information inherited from the F1 hybrid will be segregating like an F2 would. Last edited by maf; February 5, 2015 at 12:59 PM.