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Old July 20, 2018   #2
Fred Hempel
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When you use an F1 as a parent, your new "F1" will not all be uniform. Because the original F1 parent will be segregating.

The main effect is that you need to grow out a number of "F1" in the next generation, and save seed from multiple plants, to best capture the traits in the original hybrid.
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