Looking to plant from my own seeds. I have volunteer plants coming up this year from my raspberry plants. Hi Jaihawk, Usually raspberries form new plants from their roots suckers or from their stems when they are on the ground layering.
These are both forms of asexual reproduction and the new plants will be clones of the old plant. They will be genetically the same and will bear the same fruit. If you had seeds that germinated from a hybrid raspberry, they will most likely produce fruit and the fruit will be fine to eat. Missing tomatoes right now! One year I grew several hybrid varieties of tomatoes. I had everything from cherry tomatoes, plumb tomatoes to big beefsteak tomatoes.
I ended up with a very strange mix of characteristics. Most commonly, I had tomatoes that grew in clusters like cherry tomatoes, but were too big to use whole in salads and too small to slice up for a sandwich. I even had some plumb-shaped cherry tomatoes! I had the same results in my garden from volunteer tomato plants for about 4 years as Pat, but my volunteers had a potato like leaf thick stock and thick skins but very delicious.
I would single these out ever year and plant them in rows. Hi Darcey, They sound yummy! Some tomato plants have those kind of leaves. 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.
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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! Plant breeders seek to make better plants.
By crossing selected plants with different but desirable features, they produce a plant that has the best features of both parents. This is then crossed further to produce a stable plant whose seeds produce plants that are true to type. An example might be crossing a tomato with large orange fruits with one that has small very sweet red fruits in order to produce a tomato with small, very sweet orange fruits.
There are several techniques used to cross plants some of which are listed below , but producing F 1 hybrids is one of the commonest and most effective methods.
F 1 hybrids, which are largely annual and vegetable cultivars, are produced by crossing two stable seed lines called inbred lines that give rise to especially uniform progeny that possess good vigour, yield and other properties. It will say on the seed packet if the variety is F 1. The inbred lines are the critical part of F 1 hybrid production accounting for much of the cost and complexity of producing F 1 hybrid seed.
Inbreeding is allowing closely related plants to set seed. This, after several generations, leads to a population of very similar plants. Inbred lines lack vigour and perform poorly and are difficult and expensive to maintain.
Perhaps surprisingly then, when two inbred lines are crossed , the first generation F 1 is uniform and vigorous due to heterosis. Hybrid vigour is not fully understood but crosses between certain lines will produce especially vigorous offspring.
Breeders of F 1 hybrids aim to use parent lines whose progeny show particularly strong hybrid vigour. Some plants, lettuce for example, are intolerant of inbreeding and self-pollination. It is not possible to raise F 1 hybrids for species that are not readily inbred.
Wild plants tend to be intolerant of inbreeding, but the process of domestication has led to populations that can tolerate inbreeding and therefore hybrids are feasible for many crops. F 2 Hybrids These offspring of F 1 hybrids are variable but for some crops this is desirable. F 2 hybrids are relatively inexpensive. Open-pollinated seeds When a group of selected plants are grown together and allowed to freely pollinate each other, the seed is said to be open-pollinated.
Before the advent of hybrids all seeds were open-pollinated. Open-pollinated seed is available for all crops offered as hybrids, but is usually significantly less uniform, vigorous and productive. Open-pollinated seed is relatively inexpensive and can often be readily collected by home gardeners. However, seeds harvested from garden plants will not always come true to their parent, particularly if there is a related plant nearby with which it could have hybridised.
Specific hybrids Theses are plants produced by crossing different species, for example Viburnum farreri and V. Generic hybrids These are plants derived from crosses between two or more genera, such as Heuchera and Tiarella.
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. Would love to see some followup on the latest generations.
I also would like to try your new variety, but the seedwise link is no longer valid. Join us for a much anticipated return to the Lone Star State!
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