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Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Also, most farmers use hybrid crops, which you already can’t save, because they’re hybrids. (You can save them, but they’re not going to produce the same plants you get them from).
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Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Also, most farmers use hybrid crops, which you already can’t save, because they’re hybrids. (You can save them, but they’re not going to produce the same plants you get them from).
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 4 days ago
Whether a plant species is hybridized has little effect on whether it grows true from seed or only via cuttings.
Wild maple trees for example do not grow true from seed.
earphone843@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Apples are a prime example.
Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 4 days ago
How do they reproduce?
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 4 days ago
Sexual reproduction via flowers+seeds.
When self-fertilizing, the offspring are not identical.
Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 4 days ago
Oh OK, that makes sense - you’re talking about clones right? I thought you were saying that they don’t even come out the same species 🤣
The_v@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I don’t think you quite understand what a hybrid for annual crops is. Hybrids in trees are fundamentally different. Same word different meaning.