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Question about hybrid vegetables (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 year ago by NataliePortland@lemmy.ca to c/gardening@lemmy.world
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If hybrids produce seeds that aren’t ‘true-to-type’, then how do they keep making the same ones every year?

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[–] Aux@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now that your question was answered in great detail, you should read or watch something about apple genetics. These trees have a genetic mechanism which ensures that their offspring will never be the same as parents. And thus all commercially grown apple trees across the world are clones. And always were.

[–] verity_kindle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

You gotta scion, man! I have one scion whose graft "took", out of 10 attempts. Locally developed [pecan] variety, very hard to acquire. David the Good stated it in one of his books, "...Take some vodka too, you can disinfect your knife and drink it, to give you courage to graft."