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

  • The_v@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    5 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.

    • Nimrod@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      5 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@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        5 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.