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Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months ago
Apples are a prime example.
Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 10 months ago
How do they reproduce?
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Sexual reproduction via flowers+seeds.
When self-fertilizing, the offspring are not identical.
Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 10 months 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 10 months 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.