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Old July 13, 2012   #1
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Default will saved sun golds' seeds produce more sun golds?

....or are they a hybrid that won't produce good seeds?
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Old July 13, 2012   #2
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They are a hybrid so they won't produce more Sungolds exactly like the F1, but they will produce seeds and you will get tomatoes from the seeds. It is a common misconception that hybrid seeds will not produce fruit if saved, but I have grown many for fun and have never found one that did not produce.
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....or are they a hybrid that won't produce good seeds?
They wont produce good sun gold seeds.

Given the price of new sun gold seeds and how long they are viable I only see one reason to save seeds.
That is if the producer stops selling them as they have other varieties.

Folks have already started to try and stabilize sun gold for I would hope this reason.

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i grew out some sun gold seed this year with the offspring looking like the parent...ymmv.
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Old July 14, 2012   #6
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Most of the time saved F2 seeds from a Sungold F1 plant will end up giving both red and gold/orange fruits from different plants if enough plants are set out and that's b'c what's bred into Sungold F1 and all flat truss varieties are genes from a red currant accession.

It took many years for Reinhard Kraft in Germany to come up with two OP versions and even then neither one tastes exactly like the F1, according to almost everyone I've seen post about them.
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