Thread: F1 Hybrid Seeds
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Old 01-03-2015, 08:48 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Judith in England Judith in England is offline
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Default F1 Hybrid Seeds

On Sat, 28 Feb 2015 22:07:53 -0500, Gary Woods
wrote:

Judith in England wrote:

But if you really like a particular tomato say, and save some seeds from an F1
hybrid - surely the new plant will not be the true tomato which you like?

Which is the reason for growing open pollinated types; there's a project in
the U.S. (and Australia, IIRC) to produce dwarf tomato stock crossed with
some popular heirlooms. They've already got some stable breeding lines of
small but productive "heirloom" tomatos.
Look up "Tomatoville."



Cheers: awesome website !

I'll have no reason to ask tomato questions in here !