Its not “mistakes”, i wouldnt classify it as that… I just happen disagree with the formula:
I get what yur saying but ive never seen someone go that way… maybe this is normal in the States, where people just make polys from the chemdawg line, but not in the rest of the world man.
What yur saying is:
(p1xp1) = f1.
((f1xp1) x f1) X ((f1xp1) x f1) = f3 (I think that’s yur fourth generation of seeds)
Yur formula seems counter-intuitive to me, to rely so heavily on the f1 and to keep going back to the f1. Its yur Purple p1 that yur trying to replicate, not the f1. The f1 doesnt provide an accurate representation of what’s all in yur genes… u cant see anything… u gotta go (f1xf1) to be able to see everything… it would make more sense, if u kept going back to p1 over generations…
and to then stop at yur “f3”, doesnt make sense. . you’d lose something in the process and would have to backcross to a parent… u couldn’t sell those f3 seeds .(unless u made yur customers aware that theyre not stable)., they wouldn’t breed true and would loose vigour too… you would be better off by simply releasing the original f1’s…
“So, P1+P2=F1, then F1+F1=F2 would be unlikely to create the desired purple in a low number of plants in this situation, contrary to the way it did in Mendel’s project.”
– Its very likely, all you have to do is line-breed and select purple, and once u stabilize it, you go back to parent to reinforce lost vigour and potency…It may take 4 generations, or it may take 20 generations, but its how we have been doing it for decades.
Ive shared yur posts with my Dutch and Canadian peers, and now I have a half dozen old heads asking me: wtf?.. So the million dollar question is, have u done a ((f1xp1) x f1) X ((f1xp1) x f1) = f3 , and if so, did it breed true? Was that generation stable and and a marketable? You have data (grow notes) or pix?
Maybe we are wrong, Im open to new or different ideas. I learn new shit every day man… its the only way we can “grow” as growers, no pun intended… Nobody is a master, nobody knows it all.
Thanks for taking the time to read! cheers!