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[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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).

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 days ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago

Apples are a prime example.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Wild maple trees for example do not grow true from seed.

How do they reproduce?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Sexual reproduction via flowers+seeds.

When self-fertilizing, the offspring are not identical.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 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 1 points 4 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.