Wisconsin Fast Plants F1 Hairless Non-Purple Stem, Pack of 50 Seeds

We have too many students to afford outright buying packages of the F2 seeds. We tried the first two years ( and I attempted a few times on my own) to plant the parental stock, do a hybrid cross and plant the resulting F1 seeds for a crop of F2s. Invariably despite careful bagging and seporation I would fail at getting 100% hybrids which would then mess up the 1:3 ratio a month and a half later. In terms of my time and peace of mind it is SO worth it to BUY these F1 hybrids. I plant these F1s in the summer, blissfully cross pollinate with *no bagging required* and lots of F2 seeds are available for the students in the fall. I think Wisconsin Fast Plants must only save seeds pods off the recessive green parent or something because if there are any non-hybrids in the package they show up as 1 or 2 green ( double recessive) plants which are easy to weed out in the first week. They don't seem to have hidden ANL/ANL mishaps because the student 1:3 ratios have held in the several years we have done this lab.

I was using these for a science project with my 7th grade students. They are too much work and too expensive for the simple bottle biology project we were doing. The store-bought radish seeds we grew turned out much better.

They are great, and I continue to use the seeds my students produce.

arrived on time and growing in our classrooms!