Testing viability of squash seeds

[zazen999]

No, not necessarily. If you have an F1 type, then its parents are not the same as it (they are both different)...thus the children of it won't be the same either.

flummery can explain it better than I can.

Labradoodles.

To get a labradoodle, you need a labrador and a poodle. If you breed 2 labradoodles together, you won't get another labradoodle - you'll get a labrador OR a poodle. So, to get another labradoodle, you need the parents to be one labrador and one poodle.

F1s are from specific parents, so anything grown from their seeds could be either one or the other parents. If you want the same fruit again, you need both the same parents.

[Courtesy of my tutor at college ]

[sarraceniac]

Labradoodles.

To get a labradoodle, you need a labrador and a poodle. If you breed 2 labradoodles together, you won't get another labradoodle - you'll get a labrador OR a poodle. So, to get another labradoodle, you need the parents to be one labrador and one poodle.

F1s are from specific parents, so anything grown from their seeds could be either one or the other parents. If you want the same fruit again, you need both the same parents.

[Courtesy of my tutor at college ]

What happens if you don't want a doodle Zazen? I am dead set against compulsory doodling, especially in public.