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Feb 1, 2017 8:16 PM CST
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Name: Kent Pfeiffer
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It's unlikely that a pod parent would always determine one set of characteristics, while the pollen parent determines another set. Instead, each characteristic you see in a seedling is the result of the interplay of the DNA it received from both parents.

I doubt it matters much (in a general sense at least, I'm sure it matters in specific cases) which plant is the pod parent and which is the pollen parent. Hybridizers make reciprocal crosses now and then and get basically similar plants out of them. Uncle Charlie and Lady of Leoness are an example of that. For Lady of Leoness, Silverado was the pod parent and Honky Tonk Blues was the pollen parent. For Uncle Charlie, it was the opposite.



I grew both of them in my garden and could hardly tell them apart. Certainly, they are more similar to each other than many true siblings are.
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