I am growing a lot of seeds this year from crosses I made. I will not have room for all of them when they get large enough to remove from the cups they are presently planted in. There may not be an answer to this but I was wondering, What would be the best chance of getting nice keeper plants...to plant as many seeds of just a few crosses as I have room for , or to plant maybe only a few seeds of a lot of crosses? I prefer the planting of a lot of different crosses and just a few seeds of each, just more interesting to me. Also I have noticed that a lot of times if a hybridizer hits on a good cross he will register several plants from that cross, it's like finding a good set of parents is way more productive in turning out keeper plants. The method of planting more crosses with fewer plants also lets you see the result of what you might expect so you could further pursue some of the more interesting crosses later on.
Thoughts, opinions, studies, statistics?
