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Where can I get sweetcorn seeds which is not a hybrid?
In article . com, "Mike Lyle" writes: | | So I can save the seed and get the same variety for the next year! | | I don't think it would work; as I mentioned before, I think all sweet | corn, like all our cereals, is the product of hybridisation. ... That isn't quite the reason; so are many vegetable and fruits, and you can do that with at least some varieties of most of the long-established ones. See below .... | It depends | how choosy you are, but the best bet would, I suppose, be to try to | find a few older non-F1 varieties and try them all. ... Er, WHAT older non-F1 varieties? The main thing that enables maize to grow at all in the UK is the fact that extreme short- and cold- season F1 varieties have been developed. It isn't long ago when it was almost unknown here! But there is a worse problem. Even those (and the feedstock varieties) don't ripen properly here, so the chances of getting viable seed are poor. In some years, maybe - in others, no chance. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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