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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What do you recommend for storing seeds?
I hate packets that say non GMO. Its pure marketing, and it capitalizes on peoples fear.
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.
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
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?
NO HOMO seeds?
Being your neighbor would be fun haha.
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
The water drought which seeds and plants grow best with reduced water.
Use Chamomile tea bags for seeds
Epic explanation!
Organic = Vanilla
GMO = Modded
they're not bad, just different
In India a farmer commits suicide every 30 seconds because of GMO seeds and Monsanto law practices.
What's the best and safe one?
This was so succinct and thorough. I knew the basics, but still learned so much. Thank yiiu!!
This taught me so much 🙂
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.
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.
Is da Cosmo apples gene spliced?
Would dat b da same when banana Michel returns?
"heirloom seed must be from before plant hybridization"
sooo… before 10000BC?
I'll keep my Heirloom seeds.
Thanks, this videos was super helpful in understanding the difference between the different categories of seeds.
Awesome video. Keep up the great content
He DID comment on the propaganda surrounding GMO foods ("big bad GMO") and repeated that activist lie about animal genes in GMO seeds. Only the GMO tomato tried that and it is obsolete now. GMOs must not be confused with lab experiments to make glowing plants in laboratories – they are just experiments not meant to distribute for farming. All these myths are fear mongering lies to sell more crappy organic produce, especially the non-GMO certified label. Watch for the new labeling laws taking effect in 2020. They can be used now but they are not enforced until 2022.
So im a Little confused. Everybody keeps telling me there is no non GMO corn out there, every edible corn is gmo.
And I bought some seeds the other day too, but you say that the seeds we buy are always non gmo?
What’s with corn anyways does anybody have some good info on that?
Thank you for sharing.
I think I understood what you said but I am not sure.
However are Heirloom seed (we say) some kind of hybridization by nature in any chances?
would it then be possible to draw the heirloom varieties of the plant by repetitive breeding of a hybrid seed?
Had a random question and this guy perfectly explained what I wanted to know. Pog