Are there outdoor line-breeding operations in Vegas?
only for the bro-science award competition. my point is i can breed a landrace afghan here for my lifetime but it will still be a landrace afghan
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I think if you kept a starter clone and compared its offspring after 30 years you’d notice some differences.
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If you put selective pressure on a lifetime of generations, you’d think it would be moving towards heirloom or IBL status that deviates from the original diverse landrace population, no?
I’d drop an emphatic 
. We have Four O’Clock flowers that have been naturalizing themselves to my harsh climate for about thirty years. It’s too dry, too cold for too much of the summer.
But these plants are tough. And every year, a few of them come back to a place God never intended. I don’t actually know this is a fact, but I think a store-bought Four O’Clock would have a harder time competing than one crossed to these.
Edit: We’re planning to leave, but I just discovered my wife has been collecting these seeds for years.
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