Homemade F1 hybrids

zipcode · August 21, 2017

Many people get accidental crosses and think they're so good that they continue to 'stabilize' it. Sometimes they can tell which was the second parent depending on characteristics and what was grown in the garden. Or you make a cross on purpose, and then proceed again to stabilize it.
My question is why not just grow F1s when you know the parents. If you get a great F1 tomato, it doesn't take much to have your own stock of seeds. Just make the cross on purpose again, save all the seeds from that tomato and you have enough F1 seed to last a few years.
Is anyone doing this? I will start doing it this year after another fantastic accidental cross. Here is mine: GalinaXCrnkovic, great all around smallish tomato (up to 2 oz), excels at almost everything.

August 21, 2017	#1
zipcode Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Romania/Germany , z 4-6 Posts: 1,582	Homemade F1 hybrids Many people get accidental crosses and think they're so good that they continue to 'stabilize' it. Sometimes they can tell which was the second parent depending on characteristics and what was grown in the garden. Or you make a cross on purpose, and then proceed again to stabilize it. My question is why not just grow F1s when you know the parents. If you get a great F1 tomato, it doesn't take much to have your own stock of seeds. Just make the cross on purpose again, save all the seeds from that tomato and you have enough F1 seed to last a few years. Is anyone doing this? I will start doing it this year after another fantastic accidental cross. Here is mine: GalinaXCrnkovic, great all around smallish tomato (up to 2 oz), excels at almost everything.