Thread: How can seeds be organic AND F1 hybrid?
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Old 16-05-2008, 04:05 PM posted to alt.permaculture
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Default How can seeds be organic AND F1 hybrid?
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Maybe I don't know enough about hybrid seeds but saving seeds from F1
hybrid plants (in my case sweetcorn and broccoli) and sowing them the
following year had disasterous results. Surely this means that the
seeds are "tampered with" yet some are considered organic. I am
confused.

IIRC F1 varieties do not produce viable seeds. Try a non-F1 variety. For
swettcorn, try one of the "indian" varieties. The brown/purple kernals
may look strange, but they are just as tasty.

Oh, and if you want to experiment to find out how far GM pollen might
go, creep into a newly sprouted field of forage maize and plant *one*
indian corn seedling. Then see how many plants produce coloured kernals.
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