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To: SunkenCiv

It’s old news that the seeds from hybrid plants don’t produce hybrid plants, but throwbacks to the plant varieties used to hybridize them. This sounds like pretty much the same thing.


4 posted on 07/12/2025 11:31:47 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of racism, anger, hate and violence.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

My wife did just that. She had a tomato in the store she liked and replanted the seeds. The first year the plant only grew tomatoes on one side. After several generations, it reverted back to a very nice and tasty tomato but it had a woody core where the stem attached.


8 posted on 07/12/2025 11:41:08 AM PDT by Dutch Boy (The only thing worse than having something taken from you is to have it returned broken. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It has to do with isolation on an island and the random nature of sexual reproduction. Giantism and dwarfism among animal species results from the same thing. But thanks for playing.


10 posted on 07/12/2025 11:42:57 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (The moron troll Ted Holden believes that humans originated on Ganymede.)
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