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Re: Another. non hybrid question

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Better Boy and Early Girl are hybrids, as are most of the veggies you would
find at Wal-Mart.  A hybrid is the F1 generation--or the first crossing of
two parents--that results in a plant with desired
characteristics--earliness, size, color, shape, disease-resistance, etc.  An
open pollinated variety (which was referred to in the original question as a
"non-hybrid") is the cross of two parents that has been stabilized to the F6
or greater generation.  This means the plant exhibits the same
characteristics in each generation and the variants have been weeded out.
An open pollinated seed will produce a plant that is identical to its parent
99 percent of the time.  A hybrid will not.  BTW, F1 means the crossing of
genetic materials from two parents.  F6 means that the same F1 seed has been
grown, saved and regrown six times--and every time the plant was identical
to the F1 plant.
Doreen Howard
Zone 5b
-----Original Message-----
From: Patricia J. Santhuff <psanthuff@mindspring.com>
To: sqft@listbot.com <sqft@listbot.com>
Date: Thursday, July 01, 1999 4:31 PM
Subject: Another. non hybrid question


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>Hi, folks --
>
>Are those plants you buy at garden centers, WalMart, etc. absolutely ALWAYS
>marked *hybrid* if they are hybrid?
>
>We bought a number of different tomato plants, some squash and cucumber,
and
>most were not marked hybrid. Better Boy and Early Girl were two of the
>tomato plants, I think.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Patricia
>Zone 7b, West Georgia
>
>
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