A question about Ginkgo Biloba trees:

I have five very young trees. Three are cuttings and therefor very likely to
be male. The two others look like to be grown from seeds. Now my question:
how many Ginkgos from 100 seeds are male and how many are female? I vaguely
remember there would be more female than male plants, but what are the exact
numbers?

Bjoern

You are not dealing with exact numbers here, only probabilities.

Ideally the numbers would be 50/50.


Bjoern Bartusch wrote in message
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A question about Ginkgo Biloba trees:

I have five very young trees. Three are cuttings and therefor very likely
to
be male. The two others look like to be grown from seeds. Now my question:
how many Ginkgos from 100 seeds are male and how many are female? I
vaguely
remember there would be more female than male plants, but what are the
exact
numbers?

Bjoern

"Bjoern Bartusch" wrote in message
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A question about Ginkgo Biloba trees:

I have five very young trees. Three are cuttings and therefor very likely
to
be male. The two others look like to be grown from seeds. Now my question:
how many Ginkgos from 100 seeds are male and how many are female? I
vaguely
remember there would be more female than male plants, but what are the
exact
numbers?

Bjoern

If you're asking because you want to know the sex of the seedlings as
distinct from just general interest, you would have to have them sexed with
a sex profiling procedure (similar to if you send a feather of a
hard-to-sex bird to a sexing lab.) On the other hand if you're planning to
live a long long life and your plants flower you'll know they're female.

whiteMemphis schreef
On the other hand if you're planning to
live a long long life and your plants flower you'll know they're female.

+ + +
If someone plans to use this strategy he had better plan to live a little
longer and see if the flowers yield fruits ('male' flowers don't)

On the other hand he could trust to other characteristics for sexing his
trees
PvR

"P van Rijckevorsel" wrote in message
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whiteMemphis schreef
On the other hand if you're planning to
live a long long life and your plants flower you'll know they're female.

+ + +
If someone plans to use this strategy he had better plan to live a little
longer and see if the flowers yield fruits ('male' flowers don't)

oops! yeah what I shoulda said was 'fruit' not flower, I'm losing my
edge, better up my dose of Gingko

whiteMemphis schreef
On the other hand if you're planning to
live a long long life and your plants flower you'll know they're female.

"P van Rijckevorsel" wrote
If someone plans to use this strategy he had better plan to live a
little longer and see if the flowers yield fruits ('male' flowers don't)

whiteMemphis schreef
oops! yeah what I shoulda said was 'fruit' not flower, I'm losing my
edge, better up my dose of Gingko

+ + +
must be a new method of achieving longevity by applying Ginkgo:
planting a 'male' tree and refusing to die before it yields fruit
PvR

"P van Rijckevorsel" wrote in message
...
whiteMemphis schreef
"P van Rijckevorsel" wrote
If someone plans to use this strategy he had better plan to live a
little longer and see if the flowers yield fruits ('male' flowers don't)

+ + +
must be a new method of achieving longevity by applying Ginkgo:
planting a 'male' tree and refusing to die before it yields fruit
PvR

lol, at last, the secret of eternal life, now I'll outlast Windows

whiteMemphis schreef
On the other hand if you're planning to
live a long long life and your plants flower you'll know they're female.

"P van Rijckevorsel" wrote
If someone plans to use this strategy he had better plan to live a
little longer and see if the flowers yield fruits ('male' flowers don't)

whiteMemphis schreef
oops! yeah what I shoulda said was 'fruit' not flower, I'm losing my
edge, better up my dose of Gingko

+ + +
must be a new method of achieving longevity by applying Ginkgo:
planting a 'male' tree and refusing to die before it yields fruit
PvR

"P van Rijckevorsel" wrote in message
...
whiteMemphis schreef
"P van Rijckevorsel" wrote
If someone plans to use this strategy he had better plan to live a
little longer and see if the flowers yield fruits ('male' flowers don't)

+ + +
must be a new method of achieving longevity by applying Ginkgo:
planting a 'male' tree and refusing to die before it yields fruit
PvR

lol, at last, the secret of eternal life, now I'll outlast Windows