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From Seed to Cultivar

Cultivar work is a cycle: cross, grow in numbers, select, stabilise. At every station of that cycle sits a printed myth – here you get the documented mechanics instead. Fourth course of the breeding series.

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1

Pollination – One Grain Is Enough

The process everything starts with is faster and thriftier than almost every source claims.
2

Collecting, Keeping and Applying Pollen

Almost everything practice has made of it follows from the biology of the previous lesson.
3

The Seed as a Store

A seed is life at rest. How long it rests is decided by two quantities you control.
4

F1 – Uniformity Has a Condition

Why "F1" on a label can mean a great deal or nothing at all.
5

Inbreeding & Stabilising

The road to a homozygous line has a price hardly anyone names.
6

Backcrossing – One Gene Moves House

How to bring a single trait into a proven genetic background without losing the rest.
7

Landraces, Bottlenecks, Drift

Why an old population doesn't die from crossing but from small numbers.
8

Polyploidy – the Gigas Myth

More chromosome sets make bigger cells. What they don't make is the core of this lesson.
9

Autoflower – Two Genes and a Gap

Four widespread claims about autoflowering, and what has actually been measured.