How do growers reproduce hybrid seeds?

Question

When I plant a hybrid seed, I can't save the seed and get a true plant. How are they reproduced for sale so we get the same plant.

Answer 1

You need to take a clipping

of the plant and clone it.

View the rose question.

I gave information on cloning

that works for many types of plants.  

Answer 2

Growers of seeds know that when they cross a certain variety with another certain variety they will get a specific hybrid.  They maintain a supply of the two varieties they need and plant them where they can cross but make sure there are no other varieties near that will cross with the two they have chosen.  They then know that the seed produced will be the true hybrid.  

However, if you grow the hybrid and then save the seeds the plants you get will not be true to the parents.  

That's a very simple explanation.  It's more complicated than that but the best I can do here.  

Answer 3

Extremely careful records are kept, and very strict growing conditions of the parent stock are maintained.  Here is an article that pertains to tomato seed production.

http://www.avrdc.org/LC/tomato/seedhybri...

Other types of plants have similar processes to control product quality.

Is there a specific plant that interests you?  The "secret" is in choosing the parent stock.   Which open pollinated variety will provide the pollin and which will provide the ova?.  

I hope this will help some to explain it