Seed Saving In The Garden | Hybrid Plants

Have fun and experiment in your garden by putting on your lab coat and trying out some hybridization! Better yet, if you have issues like powdery mildew or SVB, try planting varieties that have been bred for resistance for the ultimate garden. Have any hybridization tips? Drop it down below!
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[@Tf03]

Your garden is always so gorgeous, are those Luffas behind you? They’re huge!!

[@meggrowsplants]

Yes!!! Luffa video coming soon 💚

[@WeTopia_]

I hope you’re making progress on the health front. ❤️

[@meggrowsplants]

Surgery is scheduled! 🤞🏼

[@caseyisbooked6752]

Gardening is a never ending battle in Texas, but yes you're right using hybrids and even saving seeds from what grew well the previous year helps to create a hardy & more successful garden.

[@meggrowsplants]

I’m inspired by texas gardeners because the resilience is amazing! It’s gotta be such a challenging environment but you guys are killing it!

[@LibraLoo]

Crazy to say this but I miss gardening in Texas. Living in the Colorado mountains now and having such a short growing season is killing me. We have snow in late May. My Texas garden had such a high yield I used to take bags of fruits and vegetables to my work to let people take for free. ❤

[@miscelany2]

You're doing your own landrace. Cool beans!

[@meggrowsplants]

Basically yeah!!

[@JK_341]

I actually had something like this happen accidentally with some kale and collard greens that i was growing a couple of years ago. I planted some Georgia southern collards right next to some Purple Moon curly kale, i let them grow all throughout the winter and then in spring i let it all bolt so that the pollinators could have a little treat. So i was just like "Eh, i'll just go ahead collect some of those collard seeds while i'm at it, too". When i planted those i ended up with collard greens that had the huge dinner plate size leaves like what is typical of collard greens, but they had these frilled edges and the leaf stems were purple, which im guessing came from crossing with the kale that i had growing next to it the previous year. I've just been calling them curly collards, hah!

[@meggrowsplants]

That’s so cool!!! I love that. Brassicas are known to cross pretty easily!

[@novastar369]

Ive planted cantaloupe and honeydew seeds from the grocery store and got melons from them thid year.

[@meggrowsplants]

That’s great!!

[@NicoleSmithGardening]

Oh my gosh, that squash you created is so cute! 🥰

[@meggrowsplants]

Isn’t it? Like a lil mini trombetta 🥲

[@carolinelawrence-hovey5704]

Our taste receptors are great at detecting poisons! Poisoning from green potatoes is similar to toxic squash poisoning where most instances of poisonings are in situations where people are just eating what they are served and don’t have much privilege to reject it. Examples include orphanages (famous case where children got sick from green potatoes) prisons and the military where people are served slop/rations that doesn’t taste good to begin with and they just scarf it down to get it over with.

[@meggrowsplants]

That’s a good point! Didn’t think about that.

[@rpdx3]

🥱😴

[@semisweetchild]

Omg, I want some of those Honeybetta seeds! 😂 Next you need to make it crazy prolific like a summer squash!

[@sazmnaz]

I'm doing some reverse hybridising this summer (Australia). I saved some seeds from a hybrid pepper plant and the seedlings from them are thriving compared to my other ones! Hopefully they don't taste awful and I can continue saving seeds from them once again, we'll see!

[@BurpeeGardening]

W.Atlee would be proud!

[@meggrowsplants]

Aww what an honor! Would love to go back in time and have a convo with him. He was such a pioneer in hybridizing seeds! Thankful he left us all with Burpee Seeds ❤

[@MsKpuff]

I super want to try this but i dont have a ton of free space for experiments sadly lol. Im curious how to cross pollinate snap dragons, you just take 2 different colors/varieties and cross those then? Or are you crossing a snap dragon with something else? Thanks!

[@meggrowsplants]

Yes, usually snapdragons kind of freely cross in my garden but if you want to be more intentional about it, you’ll have to hand pollinate them! And yes you’d want to cross two snapdragons together to try to create a new color/variety 🧡 I’m sure there are videos about how to hand pollinate them. I’ll try to make one in the spring!

[@danielleosentoski520]

Is the bitter squash thing true for zucchini too? My zukes are not sweet not really bitter but weird

[@meggrowsplants]

Yes, but you’d know if it was toxic. It would be extremely bitter no doubt about it! It might taste weird for other environmental reasons like watering, etc!

[@ljc9337]

Thanks Meg...I am with you. I really wanted to grow heirloom variety plants but they just do not produce like the hybrids. When push comes to shove I want to grow food and successful plants. Fun video!

[@aalejardin]

Thanks for the inspiration. I have an area where I let volunteer tomatoes grow. I know what the original plants were. I think I have a very tasty cross of Bronze Torch and Sweet 100s. Too small and red to be Bronze Torch ad too big and pointy to be Sweet 100s. I may save those seeds. I've also had terrible tomatoes come out of this patch -- especially when Bronze Torch and Sungold get together -- both of those tomatoes tend to split and their progeny can be super splitters! Prayers for a quick recovery from your surgery.

[@meggrowsplants]

It’s so funny how things can come out! You really just never know. But that’s the fun of it 😍 & thank you!!

[@aalejardin]

@@meggrowsplants Also I am desperate to find squash that are resistant to borers and bugs. This is my first year growing squash on this property and somehow the pests found my squash immediately and I am in the Northeast! I am going to try the hubbards.

[@meggrowsplants]

@@aalejardin watch my video about squash vine borer!

[@Arinakirey]

There actually have been a few documented cases in my country of people dying after eating homegrown zucchini. They had used seeds from store bought zucchini and later died of cucurbitacin poisoning after eating the zucchini of those plants. The zucchini must’ve been incredibly bitter though, so I’m not sure how they were even eating that and thinking it would be fine 😔

[@LibraLoo]

So happy I found you!!!! One of my all time favorite gardeners❤

[@ZeFeratu]

I'd be a someone who eats it even though it's bitter. Everyone has different taste preferences/detections , and although it's not as common, some of us enjoy bitter foods. I'm more likely to make a scrunched up face when food is unexpectedly sweet than bitter foods. I personally rarely experience something as tasting "bitter" when many people complain about it being too bitter. An example of this is bolted herbs. I adore the punch of flavor from herbs after they have bolted. Some of my favorites (that I prefer after bolting) are several varieties of basil (I find they get spicier, and I do not detect a hint of bitter flavor), cilantro, & marjoram. Getting into bolted lettuce in the heat of summer is crossing the line of bitter for me. I can taste the bitter and I don't like it. An example of something I can detect is bitter and still enjoy is 2-hour steeped grapefruit skin with pith consumed as tea. I find it very refreshing. Difficult to describe, but I also find it has a "clean" mouthfeel (as though drinking it could remove any film from drinking a glass of oil.) I like your squash, btw.

[@rizkypratama2967]

Indonesia hadir dan menyimak. Sehat selalu buat kamu. Salam dari indonesia

[@rizkypratama2967]

Indonesia hadir dan menyimak. Sehat selalu buat kamu. Salam dari indonesia

[@rizkypratama2967]

Indonesia hadir dan menyimak. Sehat selalu buat kamu. Salam dari indonesia

[@rizkypratama2967]

Indonesia hadir dan menyimak. Sehat selalu buat kamu. Salam dari indonesia

[@KashmirMovieProduction]

Beautiful garden love gardening ❤

[@jujubee7351]

Great information Meg, yes I would love to hear more on the toxic squash syndrome and interviews from people that have had it.

[@elizevh]

A TromBunny squash ;)

[@Sandraparson1]

Are you an epic still involved? They posted a similar video right after you. Just wondering! Both videos were wonderful ❤ I always learn so much from you.

[@meggrowsplants]

I think it was just a coincidence! Loved Shannie’s video about saving seeds ❤️ Tis the season!

[@pd8559]

Take to the next level. Mix all the heirlooms together to make a massively mixed genetics from which a landrace will develop over the years to match your exact environment and pressures and pests.

[@meggrowsplants]

That’s basically the goal with just letting everyone self seed as much as possible!

[@natcat3720]

I’m always terrified with squash and toxic squash syndrome. Is it when it’s in a different family that it can be toxic?

[@meggrowsplants]

From what I’ve read it can happen to any squash, but you’ll know right away because of how bitter it is!

[@missyklein1]

Good luck with your surgery!

[@meggrowsplants]

Thank you!

[@rpdx3]

I’m her surgeon. She’ll be fine. As long as I get my morning shot of whiskey to steady my hands… 😅

[@missyklein1]

​@@rpdx3Lord help Meg!😂

[@debbiebolman2705]

I grow gourds for crafting so I don't save seeds on my edible squash. The space is too small for that

[@meggrowsplants]

That’s so fun! I want to try growing some crafting gourds next year

[@SalahSalah-wz3bp]

You have to grow natural grains

[@daygirl2659]

best wishes on your surgery 🙏🏼 I so enjoy your videos and I just heard your latest Podcast today❤

[@meggrowsplants]

Thank you so much!!! I hope you enjoyed the pod ❤️ thank you for watching!

[@NN-fz4pd]

There’s no way to hold that squash without it looking like an eggplant lol

[@meggrowsplants]

Hahahhaha 😂

[@MyFocusVaries]

I love that some folks are up for this. I think the idea is great, but the execution? I don't get past thinking it's a cool idea 😂

[@meggrowsplants]

Hahah what’s stopping you??

[@MyFocusVaries]

@@meggrowsplants so many other priorities!.

[@lilspittin313]

Beautiful shares

[@gperk929]

You're a mad scientist girl

[@meggrowsplants]

👩🏻‍🔬

[@PuthyvanGarden]

Great work

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