If hybrids produce seeds that aren’t ‘true-to-type’, then how do they keep making the same ones every year?

  • @[email protected]
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    34 months ago

    Damn. That’ll happen.

    Nice work getting out of the business. Corporations can really crush your soul. I bailed on my plant breeding background because I prefer the data side.

    What kinda seed you selling these days?

    • @The_v
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      34 months ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        24 months ago

        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
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          24 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.