VERY expensive seeds - worth it?

[SarzWix]

I'd call it an F1½

[hypnophil]

Hi Zazen999
I have gold rush this year, was hoping you would share your "happiness soup" recipe, just incase any grow! lol

[Hazel at the Hill]

A Fybriditage?

I love that very much!!

Hot cross toms?

And I love that too!

I still vote for whoever came up with 'Flumgold' tho'.

[zazen999]

Hi Zazen999
I have gold rush this year, was hoping you would share your "happiness soup" recipe, just incase any grow! lol

Happiness Soup Recipe | Food | Channel4.com

From Nigella.

[Madasafish]

I have been disappointed with F1 seeds.
As a former car nut I thought they would grow faster than any other seeds, but they appear not to be any faster.

[smallblueplanet]

Happiness Soup Recipe | Food | Channel4.com

From Nigella.

How are your 'yellow squash' doing zazen? Mine are just starting to germinate - the early croockneck is up first!

[Flummery]

I love that very much!!



And I love that too!

I still vote for whoever came up with 'Flumgold' tho'.

I think that was SBP!

I believe someone has crossed 2 F1 hybrids but I can't remember how they referred to that!

[hypnophil]

Thanks Zazen, will give the soup a try, it sounds interesting.

[HappyGreen]

I usually get Lidl's seeds (29 or 49? P a packet) and they do me just fine. I do avoid F1 as I keep trying to collect some of my own seeds. I sometimes can't resist a Thomson and Morgan £ 5 off voucher though although I do generally find them overpriced.

[King Carrot]

I usually get Lidl's seeds (29 or 49? P a packet) and they do me just fine. I do avoid F1 as I keep trying to collect some of my own seeds. I sometimes can't resist a Thomson and Morgan £ 5 off voucher though although I do generally find them overpriced.

I generally use vouchers/half price sales etc to stock up on T&M seed, I agree it's expensive but it's generally of the highest quality and very fresh seed, that'll keep well and germinate strongly for a number of years (depending on the type of seed of course).

[coreopsis]

This year I had just 2 F1 packets.If everything grows well than probably I'll "convert" into ordinary seeds.I'm not fussy-what's the point in paying loads of money if you can have something cheaper.I'm not only about F1 varieties but ordinary ones.Some companies can charge over £2 for a packet of seeds.By the time I get all the veg I could end up paying over a hundred quids.
As for the companies-I get some seeds from:
Suttons-got used to them,never any problems with germination,order or delivery
Lidl-to try something(cheap)
Real Seeds-liked "their way"
and this year's discovery-Kings-excellent germination and very reasonable prices.

[DavidJP]

I think that was SBP!

I believe someone has crossed 2 F1 hybrids but I can't remember how they referred to that!

I think to be totally boring you'd still refer to your crosses as F1 as you're taking too strains and crossing them even if one of the strains was a mixed f1 strain. Other alternatives I guess would be an outcross. There might well be a technical term for that though that I'm unaware of.