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Old 11-26-2009, 09:31 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Default Re: Ice Cream X Basjoo

There is a chance you may get seeds, but then there is the issue of if the seeds will be viable or not, and from there selecting good candidates out of the progeny. Classically, banana breeding involves many different crosses and backcrosses before anything useful is obtained. You may end up with something, but it will not be easy, and there is no guarantee that what you end up with will be much of anything.

As far as seed set goes (which is one of the very first steps in a long series of steps of banana breeding), you will likely have the most luck using M. basjoo pollen on the 'Ice Cream', but if you can get any pollen from the 'Ice Cream', try doing it both ways.
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