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| How can we save seeds or propagate "bolt tolerant" varieties? Will these veggies never flower or is extremely slow in flowering/seeding? Thank you!! |
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| There's a whole forum just about seed saving. It's called (appropriately) Seed Saving. You might try there if you don't get the answers you're looking for. :) |
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- Posted by oilpainter 3 (My Page) on Fri, Apr 16, 10 at 13:21
| You can not save seeds to make bolt tolerant varieties, unless you do like the plant breeders do. They pick 2 that are naturally that way. Hand pollinate one plant with the other. Make sure that plant is not pollinated with any other. Then grow the seed. Out of the hundreds of seeds sown maybe a very few will have that tendancy from the parent plants. They are pollinated again in the same controlled way and after many pollinations and growing they may get a plant or 2 that has the characteristics they are after. This is called hybridization. Heritage plants are old varieties of plants and are the most likely to reproduce exactly as the parent plant from saved seeds, but there is no guarantee with them either. Now if a hybrid plant is grown and pollinated naturally. Some plants may be the same but most will be some form of both parent plants. Yes they will flower and react like other plants, but you never know just what the finished plant will be or look like. Your best bet if you want slow bolt varieties is to buy the seeds that are bred for just this quality and the best way to know is to buy from a reputable seed companies catalogue. Catalogues are not just for buying seeds but will also give you info on their varieties of seeds. |
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