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what are non-hybrid survival seeds?
I was reading about survival and come across “non-hybrid survival seeds”, I have never heard of these before.
What are they exactly and how do they work?
Can you get them outside of the US?
If you are thinking about aquiring seeds for yourself, you need to know more than just “open pollination.”
Open pollination (abreviated O.P.) on seed packets are plants that can pollinate themselves (with the help of humans, wind, insects, birds, ect) and will produce another plant just like the one you grew.
An example would be a Brandy Wine tomato. The problem comes in when you grow more than one type of tomato. Let’s say you grow Brandy Wine, and Amish Paste tomatoes. The two tomatoes will cross pollinate each other, and the seeds you collect will be an entirely new type of tomato.
So to grow more Brandy Wine tomatoes, you would find a good healthy stem, with flower buds that have not yet opened. Then take a paper bag (lunch size) and gently put it over the stem with the flower buds. When the buds open, you’d take something like a feather, and collect the pollen from on Brandy Wine flower and put it on another Brandy Wine flower. Then put the bag back over (just to make sure), and secure until the fruit starts to form.
Once the fruit starts to from, take the bag off, and mark that stem with a bit of really colorful string or yarn, so you know which tomatoes to collect to save for seeds.
The other tomatoes on the plant can be fertilized by insects and such and it does not matter which tomato plant the pollen comes from. Those tomatoes are for you to eat, but not save for seed.
You need to follow that procedure for any open pollination seeds you want to save, when you, or your neighbors within about two miles are growing the same type of plant.
You also need to be cautious, because some wild plants can breed with our domestic garden plants. So if you want seeds that are absolutely true, to what you planted, follow the directions and use the paper bag .
I purchase my OP/Heirloom seeds from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds. Here’s their link: http://rareseeds.com/cart/
If you are unable to find a source of open pollinated seeds in your own country, you can purchase from Baker Creek. Best of all, Baker Creek is NOT owned by any of the companies like Monsanto. I use to purchase from Territorial Seeds, until Monsanto purchased the company.
By the way, speak to any long time gardners near you. If you are lucky, some will give you a few seeds. Those seeds are worth their weight in gold, if they have been growing them for a number of years in their garden. They will be adapted to your climate, diseases, and microbes.
You also cannot just purchase seeds and forget them. Some seeds, like wheat may be viable for more than a thousand years. Others, like corn, are only viable for a year or two. You also need to know what plant zone you are in (how cold, how hot, and the length of your growing season one frost to the next), and if you have a problem with any plant diseases in your area.
~Garnet
Permaculture homesteading/farming over 20 years
We plant, harvest and preserve 90% of what we eat.
2 years food storage in our pantry for 3 adults
I’m guessing we have over 150 different types of seeds in our personal O.P./Heriloom seed storage
Survival seed bank
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