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This is the first year I am experimenting with seed-starting indoors - a modest setup of cucumbers and tomatoes. During the first thinning, I really took note of how certain individual plants were out-performing others, and it has gotten me interested in plant genetics.
If I were to select for, say, only the most robust of cucumber plants, and upon fruiting, selected for the plants with, say, only the brightest color, how many successive generations would need to pass before a distinct cultivar would form? Furthermore, would cross-pollination of cucumber cultivar be a reliable, low-tech, human-controlled method of expediting this process?
What about individual fruit - do you select for seeds from a specific fruit, or are the fruit just a potential indicator of that specific plant's ability to produce desirable characteristics?
Thanks in advance.
