# Large carrots for cooking

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**Category:** Adaptation Projects\
**Tags:** carrot\
**Created:** [October 21, 2025, 10:47am UTC](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/large-carrots-for-cooking/4290 "2025-10-21T10:47:01Z")\
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Just rewatching this [Carrot breeding video](https://goingtoseed.discourse.group/t/carrot-breeding-video/173) again and wanted to link to it.

Lots to learn about which colors are easy to get into a population (white and yellow) and which are more difficult (orange and red). And how you can maintain them long-term. Interestingly, the genes coding for purple are independent from those carotenoids, which is why you can get purple roots with either white, yellow, orange, red backgrounds.

I also learned that two traits are very difficult to select against once they are in your population: green shoulders and yellow core. But that you can cross your population with a type that doesn’t have the trait and then select against it.

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