Growing From Seed

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Through seed saving, you will learn to

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Save best crops from each years yield

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For seed saving, look for plants that

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Are resistant to diseases/insects

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2 genetically similar plants that produce offspring identical to parents its called

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True to type

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True to type seeds referred to as

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Open-pollinated

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Opposite to true to type

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Hybrid

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Hybrid come about from

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Two dissimilar parents

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Hybrid are _ offspring

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First generation

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Hybrid benefits (3)

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Bigger

More disease resistant

Uniformity

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Hybridization is

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Expense and time consuming to succeed in

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Some plants are _ pollinators

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Self

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Self pollinators (2)

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Beans/peas

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Self pollinating means

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Male/female parts merge within each flower

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Great place for seed savers to start

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Seeds from self pollinators

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Opposite of self pollinators

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Cross pollinators

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Example of a cross pollinator

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Squash

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For most plants, you should save seeds for

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At least 6 individual specimens

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Because corn cross pollinates with wind

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Staple paper bag over the male and female parts (bagging)

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Reason it helps to know your plant’s botanical name

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Members of same plant species often cross pollinate

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May not be able to obtain seeds if planted together because same family and cross pollinate (4)

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Broccoli

Cabbage

Kale

Cauliflower

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Brassica oleracea plants (4)

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Broccoli

Kale

Cabbage

Cauliflower

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To prevent plants from same family pollinating each other

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Set up barriers

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Barriers to prevent cross pollination can be physical

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Or barriers of timing

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Another barrier for cross pollination

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Planting on different sides of a house