Let me stand up for Fred. Creating a new hybrid tomato is hard work and then it continues with seed production. I found these two pictures from last winter on Facebook. The first is from the plot where the crossing takes place and the second is Nicol, which pollinates individual flowers with tweezers in hand. In three hours, he pollinates twenty plants, five or more flowers each. The result of this crossing then goes to the production farm, where testing is performed and some varieties are selected. I don't know, maybe just
Benvenuto F1 is the result of the whole crossing last winter, when 78 different crossings were made on the plot in the old-fashioned way. I also never imagined how difficult it is to create a meaningful cross.
Vladimír
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