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Originally Posted by sirtanon
Absolutely, it's a great way to duplicate a hybrid tomato plant. I've done it in the past. Buy 1 hybrid plant from Lowe's, plant it and wait for it to grow, then start cutting suckers off of it and plant them elsewhere. It's also a good way to extend hybrid seeds, if you have a long enough growing season. Start 1 from seed, then take cuttings and grow those.
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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