Thirty years or more ago I was nearing the end of planting corn and I saw that I was going to be a little short on seed to finish a field. Not wanting to buy another bag of hybrid seed I shelled off a gallon or so of flat seeds from ear corn (grown for feed) stored in a picker wagon. I planted it in one row of my four row planter. It sprouted and grew well along side the hybrid. As it reached tassel stage,you could notice that the plant height was not uniform as was the hybrid. It pollinated well and produced ears that were as good as the hybrid it was growing with.
A couple years ago I experimented with a very, very small plot of ground that I planted with seed from the best and biggest ears from a very good hybrid I had grown. This time, the crop grown from saved seed from hybrid was a failure. From my experience, trying to grow saved seed from a hybrid will be a crap shoot. You may win, you may lose.
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