What is the difference between hybrid and heirloom? Are hybrids bad? Are they natural? What is an heirloom? How old is an heirloom? Those questions and more are answered in this episode of Levi Explains.
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Thank you, it is always a pleasure to listen to your explanations.
The music makes it hard to understand Levi at times, so frustrating.
People just choose to be uneducated and scared sometimes. I can't help but roll my eyes when a random person starts talking about how every fruit and veggie that looks different to how they would expect or looks "too nice" is GMO. Or when they believe that any word they don't understand, such as the word hybrid, means that it is this evil, unnatural thing. Don't be talking to me about GMO tomatoes, melons, bananas or whatever, because that doesn't even exist! The most common foods that are GMO that we actually come across are a type of corn and soy, but most of the GMO stuff are actually fed to beef and dairy cattle, pigs, poultry and other livestock. Other common foods that have been successfully genetically modified are found in highly processed foods, such as canola and sugar beets, stuff that can hardly mascarade as regular veggies. The only other GMOs are certain papayas from Hawaii, a certain type of squash and recently a type of apple called the Arctic Apple and a potato variety but these are rare and hard to find. Also there is salmon, but that's not a crop so, whatever. There are no GMO tomatoes or peppers or lettuce or stawberries as of yet to worry about people!
So you can endanger your heirloom by planting it too close to other plants?..I'm a seed saver.
Great video, it was very informative! I think the audio might be a tad quiet though if that's something you could potentially fix!
Hi Levi a question regarding seed savings of a hybrid. I heard not a good idea as the next grow may not have the prior trait may be either of the prior plants used to pollinate.
Thanks Levi!!!! 🙂 🙂 🙂 This is a good article for further reading if anyone is interested: https://extension.illinois.edu/hortihints/0102a.html
I'm still sticking to my understanding of what GMO means. I am under no impression that GMO's or anything that has been modified forcefully, is bad for human consumption. For example… If a plant is naturally resistant to pests and you use that trait and apply it genetically to another plant that does not have that resistance, it's just makes things better. It can mean that farmers can use less or no pesticides on crops. So would someone rather eat crops with toxic chemicals on them? I'm also pretty sure that eating plants does not effect our DNA. A GMO isn't inserting its genetic info into us. We absorb the nutrients from plants, not its genetic code. And there is no evidence that GMO has any impact on our health either. GMO has been played up in a bad way. What they should really be talking more about is how bad pesticides are. But you'll never see "No Pesticides" on product labels in the same abundance that you see "Non-GMO." It's all to please the consumer so they buy it. Unfortunately, crowd intellect turns generally into primitive thinking (Good/Bad). I can see how hormones given to animals might be bad for us, but not plants that have altered genetics. Simply put, cherries and apples have cyanide in them, but people generally are not afraid to eat them. So on one hand you have a toxin lethal in high doses that people consume and they are not concerned. While on the other hand you have a term that many people don't even know what it means. It just sounds bad so they avoid it. On the term of "GMO," imagine one day that people were genetically modified so that they were not genetically predisposed to cancer. I mean this may not ever happen due to ethics, but if it did and it worked, I'm sure people would have a different perspective on what genetic modification is. But until then, every product will say "Non-GMO!" but you'll never see "Contains Naturally Occurring Cyanide!"
that's cool
Very good information, thank you.
Hey Levi, Maybe you could do a video on pollination?
Can you harvest GMO seeds and grow them
Next video should be chemically based fertilization versus organic based fertilizer
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Good job Levi! Good to see a new face join the family. You speak very well and your personality is pleasent. Cheers!
These are a lot of fun 🙂
Great information , this was something I also always wondered about,
( but the audio was really low, I had my volume all the way up and still had to bring my tablet up to my face to hear, )
Godspeed!
A video on cold hardy citrus
I thought hybrids had more variability in production, especially with peppers… was I mistaken on that?
where's the "freedom to grow your own food, don't take it for granted " go? have a notification for it but says it's down?
I usually see heirlooms are varieties whose seeds stay true after saving seeds again and again
Great video! I know a lot of people are not aware of this difference. I love the science of gardening and nature's beauty! Thanks for sharing! I hope to donate to as many shelters as I can just like Luke does! It's a dream I'm working hard towards and can't wait to make a difference in the world one belly at a time! Just waiting on the right tools and finances to be able to do so hopefully soon!
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Interesting subject, but background music really stresses me out, so I can't listen 🙁
Where can we find more Levi?
So if i cross 2 heirlooms, that makes a new hybrid, and once i get that linr established for a long time and genetics are stable, it's considered an heirloom.
Do I have that right?
Don’t down talk GMOs. They could save the planet one day by creating traits to uptake more CO2, capture their own N from the air, require less pesticides ect..
Thank you for explaing