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Re: Another. non hybrid question

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::sigh:: Here's yet another post inadvertently sent to the person posting
rather than the list. :-(  Sorry for the duplicate, Doreen.

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>From: "Patricia J. Santhuff" <psanthuff@mindspring.com>
>Subject: Re: Another. non hybrid question
>
>Thanks, Doreen. I have to admit to being very annoyed that plants aren't
required to be labeled as hybrids. One of those little tomato plants is
producing up a storm, and I was very much looking forward to saving those
seeds -- oh well. 
>
>A comment -- It's fashionable in some quarters to complain about all the
legislation that abounds for private enterprise, but when companies don't DO
the smart, sensible, logical, safe, etc., etc. things, then they sorta ask
for it IMO. I've been equally annoyed that variously labeled soil
preparations don't have an ingredients list. AND that the poultry feed I
purchased for my new chicks isn't labeled in any way to indicate whether
it's *medicated* or not. It just seems like common sense to me to tell
people what they're buying.  But I guess not. 
>
>End of rant. ;-)
>
>Patricia 
>Zone 7b, West Georgia
>
>
>>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
>>
>>
>>>Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
>>>
>>>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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