Author Topic: percentage of zygotic seeds in key lime (and two hybrids x Yuzu and citrus cavia  (Read 361 times)

Lauta_hibrid

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These are the hybrids I got from different pollinations. You can see my Key Lime x Citrus Caviar and Key Lime x Yuzu. Both are given away by their shape and the anthocyanin growth they express. This allowed me to get some statistics on the percentage of hybridization for Key Lime. Keep in mind that my plant is called "subtle lemon" here, so I don't know if it's the same strain used in other countries, but it is the same species: C. aurantifolia. There may be more hybrids yet to be discovered, since the plants are small, but for now the rest are all the same to the naked eye.
There were 18 seeds, from which 21 seedlings emerged and I only obtained 2 hybrids. So I would have only 11% zygotic seeds. That is considerably less than what I have obtained in Genoa lemon and Rampurg lime when crossing it with Poncirus (30/35% zygotic).







 

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