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Old March 29, 2010   #7
jackdaniel
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Originally Posted by travis View Post
Varieties with genetically extra large fruit, yellow epidermis and fasciated flowers is what you'd want to start with. You could use pink varieties, with clear epidermis, so long as you cross to a parent with yellow epidermis to obtain more elastic skin. The Mountain Series has some jumbo parent lines but the blossoms are not fasciated so seldom produce fused/multiple ova.
What's the theory behind this? What's the reasoning?

I'm trying to wrap my head around the whole breeding, genetics, crossing thing, but it's like a career's worth of education. Science was not my best subject. Thanks!
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