SEEDS EXPLAINED: Heirloom, Hybrid, Organic, and GMO Seeds 🌰
SEEDS EXPLAINED: Heirloom, Hybrid, Organic, and GMO Seeds 🌰
As you’re thumbing through your seed catalogs for the upcoming season, you might be confused by common terms for seeds. Are GMO seeds bad? What even ARE heirloom seeds. And what about hybrids…they’re not good to grow…or are they? In today’s video I explain the common misconceptions about all of these seed types to help you make sense of your seed shopping this year.
0:00 – Intro
0:43 – GMO Seeds
2:21 – Hybrid Seeds
4:43 – Organic vs. Conventional Seeds
7:19 – Heirloom Seeds
10:12 – Outro
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It’s like when the hand soap says that it’s "vegan friendly" but when you look at the contents on the bottle, none of the ingredients are friendly to anybody.
You didn’t mention the nutrition facts of those hybrids, how the hybrids lack on nutrition. Can you please talk about that. BTW huge fan of your channel
Totally learned from this, thank you! Yes I thought non-GMO = something special🌱
What’s the best and safe one?
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Very helpful! I’ve been watching your videos for about 6 months…..this season, I’m planting! So excited carrots 🍅🥒🥬🥕🍓🥔🍠
A gardner’s definition for hybrid sounds more like the definition of a cross breed. I’m still trying to wrap my head a round this. Aren’t hybrids sterile?
can’t wait to buy GMO seeds if they ever come to market, until then its just whatever i can get in packets for vegetables prefer hybrids to try new things. honestly i trust GMO more than non GMO but unfortunately cannot buy them
Great video
David Pakman sent me!
Use Chamomile tea bags for seeds
Most seeds aren’t sold as Hybrid, Heirloom, or Open Pollinated. How do I know if I can save good seeds?
I hate packets that say non GMO. Its pure marketing, and it capitalizes on peoples fear.
I really appreciate you pointing out that none of these things are "bad" our need to assign moral values to things like foods and seeds causes so many issues! Great video, great info, as always!
Wow! Great great great video!
I feel like Heirlooms are important to preserve, protect and grow but some don’t taste that good, or can be kind of fibrous.
Thank you
Organic = Vanilla
GMO = Modded
they’re not bad, just different
When you mentioned the corn, it made complete sense why they are the way they are. When I first saw the corn in Canada, I was like "what is this? what am I supposed to do with this?" I thought maybe they are picked young. They have no taste. The corn I grew up eating as a child are completely different. They are much larger and the corn seeds are larger and look more mature and taste really good. I only see them here once a year at festivals at a very high price too just for one corn. I know the difference because my mom used to grow corn back home.
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EVERYTHING is "chemicals" whether its organic or not. However, i like to say im a fan of "NON TOXIC" chemicals. Organic is preferred.😉♥️🥕🥬🥦🌽
just think cold, dark & dry. best place is a glass jar in a fridge an some rice added to them.
NO HOMO seeds?
Can you also explain open pollinated? I thought I understood but am more confused now. Can you gather seeds from these and what will they come out as?
Thank you for this video! I’m new to gardening. Very educational.
This taught me so much 🙂
In India a farmer commits suicide every 30 seconds because of GMO seeds and Monsanto law practices.
Is da Cosmo apples gene spliced?
Would dat b da same when banana Michel returns?
Thanks great video as I know exactly what to avoid when purchasing seeds. I prefer to stick with seeds produced from a natural fruit/vegetable as man has the tendency of interfering with nature and the Devine order of things. No heirloom, gmo’s, hybrid or whatever else for me. Natural from mother nature herself is best, yes nature knows best. 👍🏾
I’m glad to hear just the facts about exactly *what* all these terms mean. It gets confusing, and overwhelming, to look at all these terms! Thanks!
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I feel so conflicted about hybrid seeds. I want to be able to save seeds, but hybrids are often more vigorous and resistant to disease ugh!
Even with heirloom varieties, you could have cross pollination during your growing season, so my end up being a hybrid if you save seeds
Kevin, look up Joseph Lofthouse, he gives some additional info that leads to wanting to grow your own varieties, and he has drought tolerant varieties that you would be interested in, considering the climate in your area.
Almost everything we grow is a GMO crop tho… O_o
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How do you save corn seed?
What do you recommend for storing seeds?
Gardening dummy here trying to figure out… can I save seeds from any type of veggie/fruit and replant. Or can I only save seeds from heirloom?
Check out SELECT SEEDS for some older plants (flowers) Nasturtiums from circa 1806 for ‘Indian Cress’ Nasturtiums are edible when you do not spray. Could not find video where you mentioned buying Rose’s. So using a different video. Good luck.
Epic explanation!
Thanks for going over all those terms. I don’t think you had discussed open pollinated though. Are open pollinated heirloom?
Being your neighbor would be fun haha.
The scientific definition of organic is that it contains Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, and Nitrogen.
This was so succinct and thorough. I knew the basics, but still learned so much. Thank yiiu!!
I think the easiest way to explain what hybrid and heirlooms are is basically like what a cross between two pure bred dogs would looks like and then having that mut cross with an other one. If you cross say, a golden retriever with a poodle, you’ll get a Golden doodle (hybrid). Keep crossing a golden with a poodle, you’ll always get a golden doodle. Now, if you cross two golden doodles together, who knows what you will get! But, cross two poodles together, you’ll get poodles! (heirlooms).
You should teach a Masterclass or a Skillshare or something in gardening stuff
How long (many years) can you keep seeds before they become sterile?
Do you have a link to your friends seed company in southern CA? Fantastic video. Thank you for doing them.
The water drought which seeds and plants grow best with reduced water.
Very concise explanation. Question….. If you have the real estate, time, and
patience, could one grow to a F1 plant to mimic the F1 you originally bought?
Save seed from the most desirable plant. Sow 8 next year. Again save seed
from the best plant. Maybe 2 grow right, and so on, until all seeds saved
grow similarly or true to what you want? Or at least close to the originals?
Seems Heirloom seeds are taking a back seat to F1’s year after year in regards
to availability. So for beginners, all the more important to learn proper seed
saving technique’s. Paste Tomato’s at Johnny’s, 16 varieties, 11 F1’s.
Boils down to growing for fun, or sustenance, and deep are your pockets.