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Most of the seeds you buy are hybrids that don't breed true if you reuse the seed.

Sometimes, that doesn't matter much - I've saved corn seed and replanted it year after year, and it may not be exactly Silver Queen or Seneca Horizon anymore, but it's still corn. But some things get weird.

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I'm interested to know what weirdness you've run into.

Mostly I've seen odd results trying to replant seed from cucumbers, squash, pumpkins, that variety of thing, when they are hybrid varieties. A lot of times, there's a clear regression back to the base varieties that were hybridized, and it can be quite a striking difference.

Also, a number of these cultivars can cross-pollinate, and then you can get some really interesting monstrosities. For instance pumpkins getting crossed up with buttercup squash that come out as dark green and orange tiger-striped things.

That sounds really cool! Even if they might not be edible.

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