> > > > > >> I didn't say it in my other post and should have, I would support anyone > > >> growing these types of seeds as opposed to hybrids. I really don't > > >> understand why people would bother to buy hydrids bu assume that they > > >> haven't done sufficient research on yields, harvest and flavour. > > > > > > Don't hurt me, love, but there is such a thing as hybrid vigor, at least > > > with corn. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterosis#Hybrid_corn > > > or is this just a bunch of hooey (waffle)? > > > > Indeed there is such a thing as Hybrid vigour but I really do hope that you > > aren't saying that hybrid vigour equates with the best flavour, the best > > yield and the longest period for harvest. I'd be very surprised if you did. > > Mongrels have a use and that is why I mentioned homework. > > > > I agree about the flavor, but > > > our (US) sweetest corn is F1 (Sweet to the point that you feel like you > > > are sucking on sugar; not my favorite.). > > > > LOL You don't like it but you think that its a good example of F1????? > > Pay attention to what you are trying to argue here Billy! > > > > Then there is Early Girl tomato > > > (F1) vaunted by Chef Alice Waters, but after that, I can't think of any > > > other argument. > > > > Who is Alice Waters and why would what she thinks about one variety of > > tomato be important to you? But even more to the point, since I have never > > heard of her, why do you think that what she thinks should be important to > > me? > > > > With other fruits and vegetables heirloom (open > > > pollenated) plants seem to be best. What really gets me narked is having > > > to buy new seeds every year for F1s. In a survival situation, that > > > probably wouldn't be an option. > > > > Yup. If the poop does ever hit the fan then corn will be the one crop that > > I would miss as it's at total bitch from which to save one's own seeds. > > THe supper sweet corn is for the mass market. As soon as corn is pulled > the sweetness clock is ticking. For home garden use the f1's are way to > sweet and losses that corn taste. I will go for the plain heirloom sweet > corn and as the saying goes... "Pull the corn when the pot is boiling".
It's easy to know when corn is ready. It's 2 days after the raccoons
have gotten it.
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- Billy
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the
merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.
> > > > > > > > > >> I didn't say it in my other post and should have, I would support > > > >> anyone > > > >> growing these types of seeds as opposed to hybrids. I really don't > > > >> understand why people would bother to buy hydrids bu assume that they > > > >> haven't done sufficient research on yields, harvest and flavour. > > > > > > > > Don't hurt me, love, but there is such a thing as hybrid vigor, at > > > > least > > > > with corn. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterosis#Hybrid_corn > > > > or is this just a bunch of hooey (waffle)? > > > > > > Indeed there is such a thing as Hybrid vigour but I really do hope that > > > you > > > aren't saying that hybrid vigour equates with the best flavour, the best > > > yield and the longest period for harvest. I'd be very surprised if you > > > did. > > > Mongrels have a use and that is why I mentioned homework. > > > > > > I agree about the flavor, but > > > > our (US) sweetest corn is F1 (Sweet to the point that you feel like you > > > > are sucking on sugar; not my favorite.). > > > > > > LOL You don't like it but you think that its a good example of F1????? > > > Pay attention to what you are trying to argue here Billy! > > > > > > Then there is Early Girl tomato > > > > (F1) vaunted by Chef Alice Waters, but after that, I can't think of any > > > > other argument. > > > > > > Who is Alice Waters and why would what she thinks about one variety of > > > tomato be important to you? But even more to the point, since I have > > > never > > > heard of her, why do you think that what she thinks should be important > > > to > > > me? > > > > > > With other fruits and vegetables heirloom (open > > > > pollenated) plants seem to be best. What really gets me narked is > > > > having > > > > to buy new seeds every year for F1s. In a survival situation, that > > > > probably wouldn't be an option. > > > > > > Yup. If the poop does ever hit the fan then corn will be the one crop > > > that > > > I would miss as it's at total bitch from which to save one's own seeds. > > > > THe supper sweet corn is for the mass market. As soon as corn is pulled > > the sweetness clock is ticking. For home garden use the f1's are way to > > sweet and losses that corn taste. I will go for the plain heirloom sweet > > corn and as the saying goes... "Pull the corn when the pot is boiling". > > It's easy to know when corn is ready. It's 2 days after the raccoons > have gotten it.
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> > >> I didn't say it in my other post and should have, I would support anyone
> > >> growing these types of seeds as opposed to hybrids. I really don't
> > >> understand why people would bother to buy hydrids bu assume that they
> > >> haven't done sufficient research on yields, harvest and flavour.
> > >
> > > Don't hurt me, love, but there is such a thing as hybrid vigor, at least
> > > with corn. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterosis#Hybrid_corn
> > > or is this just a bunch of hooey (waffle)?
> >
> > Indeed there is such a thing as Hybrid vigour but I really do hope that you
> > aren't saying that hybrid vigour equates with the best flavour, the best
> > yield and the longest period for harvest. I'd be very surprised if you did.
> > Mongrels have a use and that is why I mentioned homework.
> >
> > I agree about the flavor, but
> > > our (US) sweetest corn is F1 (Sweet to the point that you feel like you
> > > are sucking on sugar; not my favorite.).
> >
> > LOL You don't like it but you think that its a good example of F1?????
> > Pay attention to what you are trying to argue here Billy!
> >
> > Then there is Early Girl tomato
> > > (F1) vaunted by Chef Alice Waters, but after that, I can't think of any
> > > other argument.
> >
> > Who is Alice Waters and why would what she thinks about one variety of
> > tomato be important to you? But even more to the point, since I have never
> > heard of her, why do you think that what she thinks should be important to
> > me?
> >
> > With other fruits and vegetables heirloom (open
> > > pollenated) plants seem to be best. What really gets me narked is having
> > > to buy new seeds every year for F1s. In a survival situation, that
> > > probably wouldn't be an option.
> >
> > Yup. If the poop does ever hit the fan then corn will be the one crop that
> > I would miss as it's at total bitch from which to save one's own seeds.
>
> THe supper sweet corn is for the mass market. As soon as corn is pulled
> the sweetness clock is ticking. For home garden use the f1's are way to
> sweet and losses that corn taste. I will go for the plain heirloom sweet
> corn and as the saying goes... "Pull the corn when the pot is boiling".