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Jun 2, 2016 7:48 PM CST
Name: Rick Corey
Everett WA 98204 (Zone 8a)
Sunset Zone 5. Koppen Csb. Eco 2f
Frugal Gardener Garden Procrastinator I helped beta test the first seed swap Plant and/or Seed Trader Seed Starter Region: Pacific Northwest
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Have you ever checked to see how "pure" your outdoor production plants stay? I've seen estimates ranging from less than 0.5% to over 15% cross pollination, depending on variety and aggressiveness of insect pollinators.

What you're doing indoors sounds like it would keep the strain 100% pure forever, except for selection pressure favoring the traits of whatever individuals you choose to bring indoors. And I would call that "desirable selection" rather than "genetic drift".

I assume that you don't have many or any die off indoors or refuse to fruit, which would cause an "indoors" selection pressure.

I think the idea of staggering seed harvests is great. Gene banks do that, too.
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Thanks for the article!

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