If you are not saving seed, it does not matter if the plants cross pollinate. The presently growing plant is unaltered. Only its seed is crossed.Stupid question but if a plant cross pollinates naturally do the plants that are growing take on the characteristics of the crossed plants or is it just the seed?
Even with active effort to cross N. tabacum and N. rustica, most attempts fail. When seed is successfully produced, most of it is sterile. I don't know what size seed such a cross would yield.In the case of a N. rustica and N. tabacum, what would the seeds look like.
Rustica seeds are larger than tabacum seeds. Would that be determined by the female side of the cross?
Or would the seeds be an average of the sizes of rustica and tabacum?
Bob