Can you replant hybrid corn

They are in the same family as potatoes. My best producing winter squash vine was a volunteer growing out of the compost several years ago. Hi Janet, I let volunteers go wild in my compost too. I had a bunch of grape type tomatoes that just went gangbusters and tasted great!

Thanks for sharing! Now I know better. I switched to growing only heirloom and organic seeds non-hybrid many years ago for several reasons, but specifically for saving seeds. I switched to heirlooms several years ago and have had great success saving seeds. I have experienced higher germination rates, and they are less susceptibility to pests and diseases and are better tasting varieties. For me growing hybrids, especially to save seeds, is a waste of time, especially if your goal is to get high yields and grow crops for specific characteristics.

Hi Rob, Thanks for sharing your experience! There are downsides to trying this, but for those who have the room, patience, and a bit of curiosity, it is possible to raise a new variety from hybrid or cross pollinated plants. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.

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Prev Article Next Article. Saving corn seed for next year. Heirloom beans. Squash seed cross pollinates easily. Onions are biennials, meaning they flower and produce seed in their second year. Salsify seed. All of these grew from my compost, with the exception of the Red Kuri squash on the right.

Grow a Garden for Your Chickens! Opt in to receive news and updates. Thank you! You have successfully joined our subscriber list. Tags: gardening , heirloom seeds , hybrid seeds , hybrids , preparedness , saving seeds , seed banks , seed prepping. About The Author admin More from this Author. Lisa Lombardo. Lisa Lynn. Elite Horticulture. If you had some insight I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks for stopping by! Anthony Njoka. How can we get hybrid seeds from dahlia plant.

Great points all! We shared with our FB readers at homesteadlady. Hi Tessa, Thanks for sharing my article with your readers! Nancy A Rural Journal. Rob Bepa's Garden. For most people, heirloom seeds make the most sense if they want to save seed for the next year.

Some might have kept the trait for more efficient water use, some might have kept the trait for stronger stalks, some might have kept the trait for large kernels, and some might have lost all of these traits. What other questions do you have about saving seed, hybrid breeding, and GMOs? Check out these resources , and leave me more questions in the comments! You must be logged in to post a comment.

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Cleaning Seeds One of the reasons that farmers choose not to save seeds from year to year is because they need special equipment to clean the seeds to get them ready to plant, and extra storage space to store the seeds from harvest until it is time to plant again. More Options Another reason that farmers do not save seeds to plant is that they may not want to plant the same hybrid or variety again.

Seed Treatment Farmers may also choose to purchase new seed every year, rather than saving their seed, so they can purchase seed that has been treated. Contracts Farmers who choose to grow genetically modified GM, or GMO seed sign a contract stating that they will not save their seed to grow next year.

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Loading Comments I only saved seeds from one Snarky Orange Cherry plant which seemed to be immune to the blight, and from a few of the Snarky Orange Caprese plants that did okay but not great. It was a miserable tomato season for everyone in my area, though other vegetables turnips, cucumbers, potatoes, and green beans did great. Last year was a much better season for tomatoes, especially the Snarky Orange Cherry. I planted around 20 plants and collected seeds from many of them.

We had lots of rain early in the season and then drought the rest of the year into fall. I did only a little bit of watering and my Snarky Orange guys produced like champs. We had loads and loads of little round orangeish tomatoes. They garnered a 2nd place out of 6 quarts of cherry tomatoes at the county fair I so wanted first place. We even had professional photographs taken of them. They are now feel more like my children than some silly homegrown tomato variety.

I planted over a dozen of these along a fence row away from the others. They did okay but not as well as the Snarky Orange Cherries. As they fruited out, I observed something odd — 1 out of 3 every plant produced pinkish-red tomatoes. It was at that moment I figured out what originally happened that first year. I grow a red medium-sized Amish tomato with greenish shoulders.

My belief is that the SunGold crossed with these red tomatoes but not all the seeds crossed nature is so weird.

Thus, the indoor tomato plant just happened to be a hybrid what are the chances? Curiosity will force me to purchase some 'SunGold' starts, allowing for a comparison the two types. So the next time you grow your favorite hybrid or spot volunteers in your garden, consider saving the seed.

You never know where it might lead. If you interested in purchasing some Snarky Orange Cherry tomato seeds for yourself, please feel free to visit my SeedWise. Don Abbott aka The Snarky Gardener is a gardener, blogger, author, educator, speaker, reluctant activist, and permaculture practitioner from Kent, Ohio.

Professionally, he's a software developer but spends his spare time producing food at Snarky Acres, his rented 0. To learn more about the author of this post, click on the byline link at the top of the page. Great article on one of my favorite tomatoes sungold.