Breeders and people working with interesting crosses, what are your thoughts on backcrossing with regards to our beloved fire breathing fruit? I know the canna community discusses this quite a bit, but was wondering if it holds any value in the chile world.
Backcrossing in case you are not familiar with it, is taking the progeny of a plant cross and recrossing it with one of it's parents in hopes of stabilizing certain traits. With the canna folks, typically it means each successive progeny is backcrossed with the original mom.
Now let's take for example [member='smileyguy697']'s Tepin x Lemon Drop. I was talking with Mike about this cross last year and he was saying how it's been really hard for him to get the phenotype he was wanting---slightly enlongated if I remember correctly. I wonder if backcrossing with the Lemon Drop might help in bringing out that particular trait.
It is of course more complicated than just that since there are so many traits to look out for, but I really wonder if this might not be helpful.
Backcrossing in case you are not familiar with it, is taking the progeny of a plant cross and recrossing it with one of it's parents in hopes of stabilizing certain traits. With the canna folks, typically it means each successive progeny is backcrossed with the original mom.
Now let's take for example [member='smileyguy697']'s Tepin x Lemon Drop. I was talking with Mike about this cross last year and he was saying how it's been really hard for him to get the phenotype he was wanting---slightly enlongated if I remember correctly. I wonder if backcrossing with the Lemon Drop might help in bringing out that particular trait.
It is of course more complicated than just that since there are so many traits to look out for, but I really wonder if this might not be helpful.