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Old December 4, 2016   #209
joseph
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Today I came home from a trip to find fruit ripening from one of the crosses in the promiscuous pollination project. Between them, the ancestors of these plants had 3 genes for orange fruits, and one for pink. Therefore when fully ripened, expected ratio of yellow:pink is 1:1:

I used blue tape to mark plants with exerted stigmas. I also attempted pollination of these fruits with F1:[Domestic tomatoes X LA1777]. There are a number of traits that will make some successful crosses obvious: huge flower petals, black fruits, hairy fruits, habrochaites leaf type, striped fruits, green/white fruits.

I'm intending to let them ripen a few more days before harvesting and immediately planting the seeds. It would be nice to get F2 plants before spring.

F1: [WXO x [Sun4 X Pink]] (A triple-cross hybrid)

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