Re: heirloom seeds
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- Subject: Re: heirloom seeds
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 17:24:17 -0800
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rosenlund wrote:
>
> > From: Neason
> > Seeds marked with F1 are First Cross hybrids -- about the only kind
> > you'll see. The others are all open-pollinated. "Heirloom" is
> only
> > vaguely defined as, perhaps, "plants that were grown before the
> second
> > half of this century and are no longer routinely available."
> >
> > There's nothing special about an heirloom as opposed to any other
> > open-pollinated seed.
> >
> > Steve (Maritime...)
> ----------------
> Wonderful, I wasn't sure. Is that true in all catalogs or just
> Territorial Seeds ? Surely Heirloom has a nostalgia that not all OP
> have, even it that's all they have. But for Michelle's sake: seed can
> be collected and saved from both of these.
It's true in all catalogs.
Steve (Maritime...)
>
> PS. My first batch of indoor seeded onions are looking great.
> Yippeee.. The second batch I add the peat moss to before
> they sprouted, wonder if in trying to ''skip a step'' I killed the
> seed ? But it's just been going on day 5, and they are not
> Territorial Seeds. Figure with the extra moss on them I might
> double the time I see them. First batch was sprouts in 4 days.
> Patients, patients...
>
> Sincerely,
> ~Carleen~
> Keeper of Sheep & Old Roses
> Rainier, OR zone 8
