OP or hybrids?

travis · June 4, 2006

Yeah, OPs have disease resistance. In fact, that's where a lot of the disease resistance in hybrids come from ... the OP breeding lines maintained to produce the hybrids.

Like Suze says, it costs plenty dough to test a variety for its disease resistance, and who's gonna pay the fee for such testing? Hybrids are created for their uniform and reliable production qualities, and that's where the profit is that pays the initial seed production and marketing costs.

As far as the varieties listed in the original post, most of those, except Sugar Lump, look like varieties sold in the 10c packets by American Seed Co. and its subsidiary, Plantation Seed Co. I've had great germination rates with all those seeds and had good success with the Rutgers and Super Marmande plants last year, neither of which succumbed to any diseases I can remember.

PV

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June 4, 2006	#16
travis Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Evansville, IN Posts: 2,984	Yeah, OPs have disease resistance. In fact, that's where a lot of the disease resistance in hybrids come from ... the OP breeding lines maintained to produce the hybrids. Like Suze says, it costs plenty dough to test a variety for its disease resistance, and who's gonna pay the fee for such testing? Hybrids are created for their uniform and reliable production qualities, and that's where the profit is that pays the initial seed production and marketing costs. As far as the varieties listed in the original post, most of those, except Sugar Lump, look like varieties sold in the 10c packets by American Seed Co. and its subsidiary, Plantation Seed Co. I've had great germination rates with all those seeds and had good success with the Rutgers and Super Marmande plants last year, neither of which succumbed to any diseases I can remember. PV