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Old April 5, 2018   #24
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Originally Posted by carolyn137 View Post
Please allow me to add to your post above,thank you.

What you are talking about is dehybridizing an F1 variety. I've tried to dehybridize several F!'s and here's the problem.

If the original F1 had just two parents, and that was true for Better Boy and Big Boy and Ramapo, etc.,many of the eariest F1's, that might work, as it did with me for Ramapo.

But most F1's now have several parents and for those it does not work.I can go into this more when I have time if you want me too,or try to find that post I've made several times about how modern F1 hybrids are constructed.

Carolyn
Just when I thought I was starting to understand this cloning thing, you threw me a curve. How is a novice like myself go about finding out how many parents a tomato has?

Right now, my interests are dealing with the Sweet/ Super sweet 100s and this new "Fried Green Tomato" but is there a method of determining the number of parents a variety has? Sounds weird to me but it is a serious question.
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