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Are these seeds stable?

growneat
10 years ago

Carolyn, you probably know the answer to this question, so please help me out. Others help me as well. In 2006 a fellow named Lyons grew a hybrid tomato seed in Canada. It produced a tomato weighing 4.59 pounds. He gave seed from this tomato to a grower named Capatano, an F2 seed, and he grew a 3.9 pound tomato. Capatano gave seed from this tomato, now an F3, to Brandt Timm in Ontarion, Canada, who grew a 5.8 pound tomato from it. Timm gave some seed from this tomato which produced a 5.4 pound tomato to a grower in France named Fabrice Boudyo who grew a 5.07 pound tomato from the seed he received. The next year Boudyo grew a 4.78 pound tomato from his own seed from the 5.07. The next year he grew three tomatoes over 6 pounds from his 5.07 and 5.03 tomato seeds. As I calculate it he is now at F8 from the original seed which by the way was, sorry Carolyn, Big Zac. My question is, "Should the newer seeds now be considered pretty much stable?"

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