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Originally Posted by Cole_Robbie
... I can't see anyone saving what was labelled as hybrid seeds to regrow them just to make sure they were hybrids.
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In fact, this happens all the time. Several of us have or know people who have grown out varieties advertised or represented as hybrids in order to see whether they are F1 hybrids, or just to see what gives.
Little Brandywine, Bucks County, and Brandy Boy are three Burpee hybrids that come to mind as ones that several of us have grown out while members here or at Garden Web years ago.
More to the present though, there are those of us who give out the names or fairly concise descriptions of the two parents to our custom hybrids, in my case so that people recognize potential or inherent value in the hybrid. In those cases, the savvy buyer probably understands many of the characteristics of one or both parents, and what to look for when growing out F2s, F3s, etc.