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coldlime said:Hello everybody
Ive been looking around at seeds. I can get seeds @ ebay but then looking here I see that the type offered wont come true. Ive looked on the Green Pages here @ATP and see a seller with seeds that lists seeds of let say Precious Candy but when I look it up on Plant Database it says wont come true from seed. I understand what wont come true from seed means, but dont understand how they can list both here and ebay without getting called out.
Thanks Dennis

Reputable sellers should list the parents of the seeds so that buyers will know the genetics of the seeds. It will look something like this: Precious Candy x Southern Dazzle.

The convention is that the pod parent—plant the pod came from—is on the left (Precious Candy in the example) and the pollen parent—plant the pollen came from—is on the right (Southern Dazzle). If the person selling the seed does not know either one (more often happens with the pollen parent, but can be both if they lost the label ) they will show it as Unknown: Precious Candy x unknown or unknown x unknown.


edited to add for clarity: You will not see that very often with seeds (who would buy seed of unknown parentage), but you will see it in the parentage of seedlings.

Hope this helps.