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Question about hybrid vegetables (lemmy.ca)
submitted 4 months 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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[–] The_v@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Just about anything except vegetable seeds.

Field corn, alfalfa, cereals, hay grasses, forage crops, turfgrass, covercrops, native grasses, flower seed etc. I never quite know what I will be moving next.

[–] Nimrod@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You can’t possibly have time to breed all those different crops, so do you just buy from independent breeding/production programs, and sell retail?

Sounds pretty entertaining. Just working with local growers, or all over the nation?

[–] The_v@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Lol no I only doing a little breeding as a hobby now (Halloween pumpkins).

Last count I had 14 different suppliers from local to internationals.

I have dealerships, distributorships, as well as open market suppliers. I do both wholesale and retail.

Basically, I don't go fishing enough.