were produced by Ed Leach in Gainesville, Florida, from very red corns that he caught in Spuds and Hastings (N. Florida) that were quite red. Then he did some inbreeding and outcrossing until he started producing what we now call bloodreds. You can read all about the bloodred history in my book. If there is any hybrid blood in any bloodred corns, it is from others who later took bloods and mixed them with something (but I doubt many, if any, did that).

Interestingly, in 2005 we met somebody in St. Augustine (near the original towns where the bloods were collected a long time ago) who has collected some wild "blood het" corns in and around his rural area, and has produced bloods from them recently. I and some others have gotten some of his blood lines to cross to the old ones.

I would be highly amazed if some kind of DNA test ever showed any non-corn blood in most bloods offered today.

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• so i was reading the lower bloodred post - adamjeffery, Sun Mar 5 13:19:08 2006
• no question involved i guess.......n/p - adamjeffery, Sun Mar 5 13:20:16 2006
• RE: so i was reading the lower bloodred post - HerpZillA, Sun Mar 5 13:33:31 2006
• RE: so i was reading the lower bloodred post - DIDGEY, Sun Mar 5 15:06:19 2006
• RE: so i was reading the lower bloodred post - draybar, Sun Mar 5 15:15:33 2006
• RE: so i was reading the lower bloodred post - DIDGEY, Sun Mar 5 15:55:27 2006
• RE: This is rather scarey - HerpZillA, Sun Mar 5 16:33:27 2006
• RE: This is rather scarey - goregrind, Mon Mar 6 05:49:35 2006
• RE: This is rather scarey - HerpZillA, Mon Mar 6 13:34:18 2006
• I don't understand... - kathylove, Mon Mar 6 14:12:43 2006
• RE: I don't understand... - HerpZillA, Mon Mar 6 16:04:05 2006
• RE: I don't understand... - Darin Chappell, Mon Mar 6 16:42:31 2006
• well put Darin - draybar, Mon Mar 6 17:17:13 2006
• RE: you said - HerpZillA, Mon Mar 6 17:28:15 2006
• RE: you said - draybar, Mon Mar 6 18:06:10 2006
• RE: Thank you - HerpZillA, Mon Mar 6 18:10:04 2006
• RE: You do understand... - HerpZillA, Mon Mar 6 17:23:01 2006
• I see a thread record for WIR for Jason - HerpZillA, Mon Mar 6 17:33:49 2006
• RE: so i was reading the lower bloodred post - draybar, Sun Mar 5 16:34:48 2006
• RE: so i was reading the lower bloodred post - DIDGEY, Sun Mar 5 16:58:52 2006
• Hold on a minute! - Darin Chappell, Mon Mar 6 16:54:19 2006
• "hybrids"? . . . dial-up warning! - DonSoderberg, Mon Mar 6 18:11:57 2006
• RE: WOW A HAVE TO READ - HerpZillA, Mon Mar 6 19:21:15 2006
• Tom . . . - DonSoderberg, Mon Mar 6 19:39:51 2006
• RE: RAID 5 got to have it! - HerpZillA, Mon Mar 6 20:14:13 2006
• The original bloodreds back in the '80s - kathylove, Sun Mar 5 18:29:50 2006
• RE: The original bloodreds back in the '80s - HerpZillA, Sun Mar 5 19:30:05 2006
• thank you for your thoughts... - adamjeffery, Sun Mar 5 20:42:38 2006
• Anything is possible... - kathylove, Sun Mar 5 22:25:12 2006
• RE: thank you for your thoughts... - tspuckler, Mon Mar 6 09:26:14 2006
• RE: thank you for your thoughts... - Dwight Good, Mon Mar 6 10:32:01 2006
• RE: thank you for your thoughts... - tspuckler, Mon Mar 6 11:21:06 2006
• I agree! n/p - kathylove, Mon Mar 6 14:05:13 2006
• Dwight . . . - DonSoderberg, Mon Mar 6 18:24:56 2006
• RE: Dwight . . . - Hurley, Wed Mar 8 07:29:01 2006
• Thank you . . . - DonSoderberg, Wed Mar 8 08:46:10 2006
• Don Invents new back up! - HerpZillA, Wed Mar 8 12:24:16 2006
• RE: so i was reading the lower bloodred post - LizardMom, Tue Mar 7 00:26:51 2006