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I have planted about 100 VFT seeds this winter, I haven't had exceptionally high germination rates but today I finally got my first red out of a tiger teeth x tiger teeth seed. Super excited but these reds are much less common than I expected. Anyone have a rough estimate of what the odds are of getting a red?

It really depends on the source of the seeds. If one or both of the parents exhibited red it will be much higher. I had a batch of 8 from FTS where 2 or 3 were red. For any given seed, I don't know, though.

I have planted a couple 10 seed batches of crimson sawtooth x crimson sawtooth and never got a red. They seem quite elusive. I have 80 seeds that are about a week away from germinating so hopefully we get lucky.

Interesting. Another thing to consider is unless it's a true, all-red VFT, it might not exhibit the same coloration as a seedling as it will as an adult. Even Akai Ryu can be green at times as an adult. But I believe its common for seedlings not to show much color until they're a year or two old.

It's tough to say. A couple years ago, I planted about 40 seeds and almost half were red and the parents were just typical. Last summer I planted well over 200 and none came out red.

If you bought 100 VFT seeds on eBay or aliexpress, you'll get 100 plants of common weed.

Tarzanus wrote:If you bought 100 VFT seeds on eBay or aliexpress, you'll get 100 plants of common weed.

lol usually dragonfruit from what I have heard.

eBay is not a bad option for seed you just need to use common sense and filter on USA only. I believe Matt even sells seed on eBay.

Tarzanus wrote:If you bought 100 VFT seeds on eBay or aliexpress, you'll get 100 plants of common weed.

Yea amen to that!

Or strawberries....