Seeds from store bought produce
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Many grocery store peppers are hybrids, which will produce very poorly if at all. But if you want to try it, it won't hurt anything.
Beans are good because they're open pollinated.
Beans are good because they're open pollinated.
Diehard Hunter
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What TX said holds true for most of our store bought produce, but not all. What you will get will suffer from what we call Hybrid Breakdown.
The plants from the seeds you collected may in fact work, and grow well this year, but the fruit will not be of as good a quality as what you collected the seeds from. If you keep seeds from the fruit you grow this year you will see subsequent degeneration next year.
It never hurts to try them though.
The plants from the seeds you collected may in fact work, and grow well this year, but the fruit will not be of as good a quality as what you collected the seeds from. If you keep seeds from the fruit you grow this year you will see subsequent degeneration next year.
It never hurts to try them though.
I listened to a program on NPR a while back & they were on the subject of engineeered genetics in plants, since our world is all about the almighty dollar corporate farms want plants that grow out faster & produce more to increase profits.
ADM & (think'n also it was) Samantos are egnineering seeds with a suicide gene, the plant grows out only 1 time & the seed from is dead, that way induviduals cant reuse ther seeds & they have the market cornered, basicly if you want to plant a garden you'll have to buy seed from them every year.
ADM & (think'n also it was) Samantos are egnineering seeds with a suicide gene, the plant grows out only 1 time & the seed from is dead, that way induviduals cant reuse ther seeds & they have the market cornered, basicly if you want to plant a garden you'll have to buy seed from them every year.
I can remember eating oranges and apples as a kid and I would take some of the seeds and stick them down in my moms potted plants in the living room.
Best I can remember they all came up.
No idea if they would have made fruit, but it was kinda cool.
Also remember a guy in my 8th grade class that put pot seeds in our English teachers potted plants. LOL
Sorry just remembered that when I read this thread.
Best I can remember they all came up.
No idea if they would have made fruit, but it was kinda cool.
Also remember a guy in my 8th grade class that put pot seeds in our English teachers potted plants. LOL
Sorry just remembered that when I read this thread.
farmin68 said:TX300mag said:
Fox Fire, please consider the above source very carefully before you take his advice as the gospel.
Bout time you showed back up!
