Re: What does OP mean?
If you grow your own, OP is "open pollinated", meaning the vegetable seeds you are buying were pollinated by bees and bugs, and some stray pollen from other plant varieties might influence the offspring. F1 is not necessarily an early Gibson, but a hybrid, an intentional cross between two strains of plants to get certain characteristics from the parent strains in the resulting progeny. For F1 you intentionally apply pollen from one plant strain to another.
Why this long wandering off the path digression? Because I've been gardening almost as long as I've been playing mandolin, and while I know what OP means on the internet, there is that momentary, half-second mental stumble my brain goes through every time I see OP in a message and decide which one is being used.
If that's too confusing, stop by my place, my OP and F1 'maters are coming in hot and heavy and we can discuss the merits of OP versus F1 versus the delightful F-2 I've been loaned whilst mucking down the best BLTs you've had in a while.
Rob Ross
Apple Valley, Minne-SOH-tah
1996 Flatiron A5-Performer, 1915 Gibson F-2 (loaned to me by a friend), 2008 Kentucky Master KM-505 A-Model
1925 Bacon Peerless tenor banjo (Irish tuning), 1985 Lloyd Laplant F-5, 2021 Ibanez PFT2 Tenor Guitar (GDAE)
and of course, the 1970 Suzuki-Violin-Sha Bowl Back Taterbug
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