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To: The Other Harry

The peach you ate was a hybrid so likely you wil get no peaches from any kind of shoot it sends up. You will get a "tree" but no peaches.


4 posted on 07/16/2005 10:58:06 AM PDT by dennisw (See the primitive wallflower freeze, When the jelly-faced women all sneeze)
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To: dennisw

Hybrids aren't by nature sterile. Every domestic animal and every domestic crop is a hybrid. Sometimes a hybrid can be sterile, such as mules.


6 posted on 07/16/2005 11:46:21 AM PDT by SampleMan
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To: dennisw

I believe you are mixing up a variety with a hybrid. A Aprium is an example of a plum/apricot hybrid, but most peaches are cultivars or varieties, and as such their seedlings will not be always be true to variety, but will usually bare peach or sometimes nectarine (fuzzless peach)fruit.


8 posted on 07/16/2005 11:58:39 AM PDT by tertiary01 (It took 21 years but 1984 finally arrived.)
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