NataliePortland to GardeningEnglish • 3 months agoQuestion about hybrid vegetablesmessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up135arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up133arrow-down1message-squareQuestion about hybrid vegetablesNataliePortland to GardeningEnglish • 3 months agomessage-square22fedilinkfile-text
If hybrids produce seeds that aren’t ‘true-to-type’, then how do they keep making the same ones every year?
minus-square@The_vlinkEnglish3•3 months agoJust 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.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•3 months agoYou 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?
minus-square@The_vlinkEnglish2•3 months agoLol 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.
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.
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?
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.