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Jul 5, 2019 12:54 PM CST
Name: Keith
Long Island, NY (Zone 7a)
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@ShawnSteve, you never actually explained how companies produce mass amounts of pollen less varieties? If they cannot be propagated by roots or cuttings then every pollenless flower pollinated by a fertile variety would result a hybrid which would not be anything like the labeled parent variety. So how do they manage to keep these varieties in production year after year?

I did manage to plant pollenless sunflowers and fertilize them by planting a variety with pollen of the same color, but I could not replicate the original cultivar. I do not know how it's possible.

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