Hybrid Seeds result from parents of different varieties, species or even genera. Hybrids exist in nature; peppermint is a natural hybrid between spearmint and water mint.
In garden terms, hybrid seeds are the result of human manipulated pollination between two distinct varieties. Each parent variety will be inbred to promote a particular trait, one may be high yield the other disease resistance.
The hybrid offspring will combine the benefits of each parent. The term often used is F1, short for filial one, or the first generation of offspring resulting ...
