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[Geoffrey Tolle <Gtolle0709@wowway.com>]

    I thought that triploid could only reproduce with triploid.

Jim Fruth wrote:

> Nick,
>   If you suspect you have a triploid, try germinating the seed.  If it is a
> triploid, it cannot divide an uneven number of chromosomes in meiosis and
> so, would not produce viable seed.
>