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Old May 28, 2008   #8
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Yes, Better Boy is an F1. So is Big Boy an F1. So is Ultra Boy an F1. Lots of boys out there.

But my point is, knowing George Ball at Burpee, that no parentage will ever be revealed as is true with all other proprietary F1 hybrids developed. I'm pretty sure that Peto Seed, now a part of Seminins, probably does the Burpee hybrids but the same would be true of other hybrids developed by Peto, Novartis, Sakata, and on and on.

It's a rough world out there competition wise so that's why parental genetic inputs are never revealed.

Just go to Google, enter NCSU cultivars, scroll down to tomatoes and take a look.
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