permaculture

[Georg Parlow <s+l2@nextra.at>]

At 21:39 03.04.00 -0700, you wrote:
> or through other tax-funded research, I feel an obligation to defy patent
> laws. When I get the seeds, I'll give them away to whoever wants them. Of
> course, if the second generation still doesn't taste good, I won't grow
> them again! I'm assuming that these purple carrots are simply the result of
> classical breeding, but I would like to know for sure that they're not in
> any way genetically modified.


way to go! you propably know this, but for everyones bvenefit please let me 
repeat some advice: assuming that this is an 'ordinary' breed (not 
genetically engineered) it still is a very young breed - which means that 
it can impossibly be stable yet. or in other words: a fairly high 
percentage will not come true to parent, which isnt a proble as long as we 
know and keep rigidly culling our seedstock. over the years  the breed will 
get more and more stable. so, even if it should be an F1 hybrid, as long as 
it is fertile at all (very likely) a stable breed true to type can be 
selected over the years - only the percentage that is Not true to type will 
be Very high in the first few years. (every heirloom started off as an F1 
one day in the more or less distant past...)

keep up the good work!

georg