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Brassica crosses.
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Posted by lieven Belgium! (My Page) on Sun, Jan 14, 07 at 16:07
| I’m into brassicas, and into tomatoes, squashes, lettuce & other edibles, too. You’ll find some info on me & most of my seeds on my site mentioned below.
So far, I’ve made the following brassica crosses (seeds available):
Granddad Maycock’s Collards x Nine Star Perennial F1 (both parents are short-lived perennials) My aim: a wide range of hardy perennial broccoli to choose from.
Purple Peacock x unknown broccoli F1 & F2. PP came from wildgardenseeds.com, but they don’t seem to sell it anymore. My aim: a beautifully dark broccoli, with oakish leaves. Purple colour indicates higher anti-oxidant levels, I guess.
Colorsa (a red cabbage x savoy) x Stanton (a white cabbage x savoy) F1. My aim: hardy cabbages for our Belgian climate. Also, savoys & reds contain more anti-oxidants than white cabbages.
Well, that’s it so far. Crossing brassicas requires lots of space and/or time, because of the outbreeding & all those bees.
I’m still planning lots of other crosses, but I think & know I’m not the only one at these projects. Nutritional values & taste & hardiness & even beauty are nice goals to work towards, but if you are a brassica breeder too, we could exchange seeds & info, & work together.
Lieven
www.freewebs.com/delusthof
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RE: Brassica crosses.
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I have no land now so there is no need for seeds . I do not have or want them at this time .
My goals were to cross all brassicas with the Giant varieties and also with the most extream conditions tolerant ( disease, drought , frost , resistant strains .
In cabbage there is OS Cross 65 pounds and I have heard of larger ones.
Then after I have a giant brassica that can grow anywhere and survive anything , I would try to breed in the high oil and protein content of rape seed , the taste of mustard seed , the leaf bud of the cabbage and its quick cooking ability the less smell of the collards , the root of the turnip , the stem of the kholrabi , the long keeping of the rutahbaga, the flower buds of the broccolli , or cauliflower the rapid growth of the bok choy ,the kale frost resistance and colors , and brussel sprouts and the best vitamins and resistance from all of them . There is no legislating taste , so that can be bred in later . |
RE: Brassica crosses.
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Interspecific crosses are not easy here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brassica will give you an outline of the brassica species.
The link below shows a chart of some of the relationships between them.
I'd rather cross within a few species, as there is enough interesting genetic stuff present. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Brassica chart
RE: Brassica crosses.
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try this link
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://waynesword.palomar.edu/images/cockap1b.jpg&imgrefurl=http://waynesword.palomar.edu/hybrids1.htm&h=365&w=424&sz=49&hl=en&start=9&tbnid=rJIr2atJTpJhkM:&tbnh=108&tbnw=126&prev=/images%3Fq%3D%2522animal%2Bhybrids%2522%26gbv%3D2%26svnum%3D100%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DG
Also there is the "kholbaga " developed by the University of New Hampshire . |
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