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Mon, Mar 10, 03 at 22:16
| hi, i'm really new to hybridizing plants, but how exactly do you hybridize?
pollenate the flower with a different plant? |
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- Posted by ultraeco 6 (ultraeco@hotmail.com) on Wed, Mar 12, 03 at 19:38
| You take the pollen from one type of plant and put it on the blossom of another type of plant that is related to it but not the same. They can be close crosses : zucinni squash X crookneck , or wide crosses zucinni squash X big max squashkins or pumpkins . I do not know what you plan on crossbreeding. hybrids is when you combine (crossbreed )2 diffierent parents and get an offspring different than either parent.cross a red rose and a white rose and get a pink rose as the result . |
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| Just get pollen from one plants stamen and with a brush place it on the stigma of another plant of the same family (e.e. Sweet pea 'streamer' x s/p 'horizon'). You can also cross two totally differant plants. But the odds of getting a new plant are something around 1:1000. Some breeders do it though, and make loads of money. Hope that helped. |
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- Posted by maxfarms 6a Mass. (maxfarms@hotmail.com) on Wed, Apr 23, 03 at 14:15
| Carol Deppes books " breeding your own vegetables" and a second one for gardeners and farmers will be a big help to you . see if you can get them from interlibrary loans. WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF CREATIVE GENETICS !! |
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- Posted by maghahalaman Philippines (My Page) on Sun, May 18, 03 at 23:13
| To be successfull in breeding plants you need to study the structure or morphology of the plant you are interested in breeding. Observe. This way you will know how to pollinate them properly. Choose plants that are related to each other by genus or by family (tip: one is more successful in breeding two different plant types of the same species than in the genus level, the probability of being sucessful in producing a cross goes down as you go farther up in the taxonomic groups (genus to family). Trivia: Very unrelated plants/ organisms can only be bred through genetic engineering ex. Tobacco that glows in the dark by adding a gene from the firefly. Goodluck! |
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- Posted by postal_blonde (My Page) on Tue, Aug 11, 09 at 16:41
| so when you try to hybribize 2 lilies. to try and get a different color do i save the seed so to speak that is there after the flower or will this go down to the bulblets of the plant. I have a yellow and white i want to try to cross. And I find nothing on doing lilies (asiatic ect). Just on daylilies. Thanks for any help....I have 3 blooms so can do up yo 3 ways. |
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| Hi! I would like to try to cross two daylillies... Are they easy for a biginner like me? |
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| Hi Adam, Daylilies are easy to cross, because their flower parts are large and accessible. You will have a better chance of a knowledgeable response over in the Daylily forum. I hybridize zinnias, because they are also easy to cross, and you can see the results of your crosses much sooner than with Daylilies. ZM |
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