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re: How many of you use plant with seeds from vegetables from last crop?

Posted on 1/25/24 at 11:17 am to
Posted by FowlGuy
Member since Nov 2015
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Posted on 1/25/24 at 11:17 am to
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Ok explain this to me as I’m wondering how the seed producer gets seed w/o using seed from a hybrid plant?


The plant breeder takes two plants, let’s say tomatoes. Two different varieties. He takes the pollen from the male flower and pollinates thr female flowers of the other tot Mayo plant. With this fruit makes, the seeds within that fruit or a hybrid (F1). You can collect these seeds and plant them next year and it’s a hybrid plant. Now, the seeds of the fruit grown that year are no longer a hybrid. Don’t ask me why. But if you plant them, they may grown plants, they may grow fruit, but you cannot rely on whatever the producer is promoting that hybrid to do (examples larger fruit, uniformity, disease resistance, cracking, heat scald, etc).
Posted by Sixafan
Member since Aug 2023
609 posts
Posted on 1/26/24 at 6:59 am to
I have heard that but only when the hybrid plant is exposed to pollen from a new plant not similar hybrids. I understand how you dilute the gene pool every time the hybrid gets exposed to a new breed but that is what happens in nature. Rarely are any species nit hybrid. An heirloom exposed to a non heirloom become somewhat hybrid also.

Still not convinced that natural diversity (interbreeding) is a bad thing, except for seed manufacturers. But know it’s true for fruits of grafted trees because they use differnt root stock.
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