WinterLager You have mail.

I've had 3 people ask for seeds. There are still plenty of seeds left. For the price of two stamps you get to raise a few dozen Neos. That's the initial cost. If you do raise them to adult size it will cost much more.

Quite viable. These are 10 days old.

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I guess that the parent was a cull (not significant), presumably the grand parents were not culls. That means the F2's are going to be like the F0's, not the F1.

Hey, there is even a stupid patent on improving this:

"In a typical plant breeding experiment, two parent plants are crossed and the resulting progeny (the F1 generation) are screened and a plant (termed the F1 plant) identified that possesses a desirable combination of phenotypic traits. The F1 plant is then self-fertilized to yield a population of progeny plants (termed F2 plants) that must be individually analyzed to determine which F2 plants possess the desired combination of phenotypic traits originally introduced in the F1 plant. If, as is often the case, the desired phenotypic traits derive from the combined effect of several genes, then the number of F2 progeny plants that must be screened depends on the number of genetic differences between the parents of the F1 plant. Thus, the greater the number of genetically-controlled differences between parents of the F1 plant, the larger the number of F2 progeny that must be grown and evaluated, and the lower the probability of obtaining progeny with all the desired traits..."

im interested to see how the plant are doing
would you mind putting up a few pics of the seedlings?

I killed most of my first batch. Here is a thinned out second batch that is doing well at 5 months despite the horrible pot. I don't expect anything exciting to happen anytime soon. Knowing what they are kind of makes it boring. I like the fun of the unknown herd.

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Here are how mine are doing =]

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i put one in a small pot was this a bad idea?

The whole point of this exercise is to find out what works. So putting one in a small pot is good since you'll find out if it's a bad idea or not.

My limited experience has been that small pots with small plants are a pain since they dry out so quickly and are easily knocked over or spilled. However, small plants are real easy to transplant so if you only have a few plants, you can certainly transplant them to what ever container is good for you.

Once you have too many plants growing, you will learn to cull and like it. Here is my "culling ground" where I dumped a bunch of culls last weekend. A few may even survive for a while, but they'll have to do it on their own.

I'm finding that I'm keeping about 6 decent sized seedlings and dumping the rest. Although I'm sure I'll keep more if it is something real interesting. On quite a few of my more oddball crosses keeping 6 isn't a choice since I usually get fewer that survive more than a few months.

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