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I didn't buy any seeds that said hybrid on them so I am hoping that they are just plain regular vegetable seeds I have thought about ordering heirloom seeds has anyone else done this. I worry with hybrid seeds since I am not sure what they did to those seeds and since you can not use the seeds the next year so you have to keep buying more seeds. I would rather be able to use seeds from vegetables that I grow the next year.
Hybrid seeds haven't had anything done to them.. They are just two varieties that were cross pollinated and produced a new variety of seed. Like breeding a barred rock to a rhode island red and getting a hybrid chicken. You can save seed from them and replant.
But they won't breed true.
Don't like GMO, don't use them. The reason people use hybrid seed is that much higher production due to genes for production and health, and the benefit of F1 generation. Which is better, use cheap seed, get less production or buy expensive seed and get much better and reliable production?
For me, give me my Better Boys--a hybrid, more expensive but consistent, higher yields of tomatoes. For me, a no brainer. I like it's flavor much better than any heritage tomatoe I've eaten.
I didn't buy any seeds that said hybrid on them so I am hoping that they are just plain regular vegetable seeds I have thought about ordering heirloom seeds has anyone else done this. I worry with hybrid seeds since I am not sure what they did to those seeds and since you can not use the seeds the next year so you have to keep buying more seeds. I would rather be able to use seeds from vegetables that I grow the next year.
Hybrid seeds haven't had anything done to them.. They are just two varieties that were cross pollinated and produced a new variety of seed. Like breeding a barred rock to a rhode island red and getting a hybrid chicken. You can save seed from them and replant.
But they won't breed true.
Don't like GMO, don't use them. The reason people use hybrid seed is that much higher production due to genes for production and health, and the benefit of F1 generation. Which is better, use cheap seed, get less production or buy expensive seed and get much better and reliable production?
For me, give me my Better Boys--a hybrid, more expensive but consistent, higher yields of tomatoes. For me, a no brainer. I like it's flavor much better than any heritage tomatoe I've eaten.
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