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Apricot seedling
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Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1058069089 8194176 66.188.211.104 (16 [63726]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030506 Thunderbird/0.1a X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Path: kermit!newsfeed-east.nntpserver.com!nntpserver.com!skynet.be!skyne t.be!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!66-188-211-104.roc.mn.charter.COM!not-for-mail Xref: kermit rec.gardens.edible:59015 Sherwin Dubren wrote: Hi Bob, Well, I don't see any explanations of your last posting. There is no hocus pocus about genes recombining in an unusual way. Like with any other species, a mutant variety may arise, but on the whole, the resultant peach tree will retain the characteristics of it's parents. If those parents came from the same tree, it is almost a certainty that the offspring will carry the same genes as the parent tree. That's how cloning is done in other species. Sherwin Dubren zxcvbob wrote: Sherwin Dubren wrote: Hi Christina, I'm following this thread with interest. Seems like most people don't understand about pollination. When you plant a seed or stone, the resulting tree is a mix between the original tree and whatever tree supplied the pollen to do the job. With fruit trees, like Apple, this can produce strange results, like a crab apple pollinating a Red Delicious. However, with Peaches there is a better chance of good outcome because Peaches are self fertile. This means that unless there are a bunch of other Peach trees of different varieties nearby, the original Peach tree will probably pollinate itself, thus preserving the characteristics of the original tree. What is lost in this process is the ability to regulate the size of the tree. If you start with a semi dwarf Peach, the planted stones from that tree will probably develop into a full size Peach tree. The only way to control its size is to graft a piece of that tree (scion) onto a semi dwarf Peach rootstock. Well, that's the end of my little tutorial on planting Peach stones. Hope it clears the air. Sherwin Dubren Midwest Fruit Explorers (MidFEx) The peach trees' genes will recombine, and the seedling characteristics are pretty much unpredictable. Best regards, Bob It's parents are probably both hybrids -- and not even F1 hybrids. The seedlings will be peaches, but there's no way to predict what they'll be like. But a peach is such a short lived tree, it doesn't take all that many years to find out. Bob |
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