What's going on everyone?

What's going to be?

What's going to be?

What's going on,

what's going on everyone? Welcome back to another awesome episode here on the

Epic gardening podcast. Kevin Spiritu here and I'm joined again by Adam

Mosley. He's the research and new product developer

at Pleasant View Gardens, which is the home of proven winners.

And I've always liked that name.

I just two words that communicate exactly what you want it to be about. There's very few things

that are like that. Yesterday we talked about just a basic overview of the different ways that plants

are bred, the timelines, all of that.

And today, Adam, I think it makes sense to talk about,

okay, let's say you're taking a specific plant.

Let's say basil, for example example how do you select for different traits

qualities how do you even know what you're looking for well the first actually did

a lot of basil breeding back in college, and I think the first thing that you really want to do is go through and do a big germplasm screen.

So what does that mean? It means we want to go out there and collect as many different seeds from as many different varieties as we can.

There's a lot of cool resources out there to do that with.

USDA is a great one.

And you might find some trait that you think you want, which might be a different flavor or a different texture to believe.

And then in my case of my breeding program, my entire child basically got killed

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