Vegetables Gardening - Growing Organic Vegetables

Mark, there is this out fit called Territorial Seed company and they deal exclusively in historical varieties of seeds. Like Heirloom varieties as well as seeds native to a particular part of the country. They also conduct certification classes on Organics and so I would wager that they could give you the precise definitions that you are seeking.

jeff

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From: Mark <christianpatriot2003@yahoo.com>
To: Organic_Gardening@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, December 5, 2011 1:21 PM
Subject: [Organic_Gardening] definitions for seed types help?


 
I have already started looking for seeds for next year but am trying to be more particular this year about the seeds I use. As usual now I have more questions than answers about definitions.
Hybrid – means that this seed came from two different "types" of the same plant. A Jalapeño hybrid, has Jalapeño A for a father and Jalapeño B for a mother, and what they are selling is Jalapeño C. This is desirable because the best traits of A + B show up in C. This is not desirable because if I save the seeds from C – it will produce either an A or a B but not a C. Is this correct?
OP means open pollinated – meaning there is no telling what pollinated the fruit/vegetable so that the bee that pollinated that plant may have flown in from Botswana? If this is correct, then how can a seed be both organic and open pollinated? Since open pollination (I think) means there is no control over the vector that causes the pollination – then if there is any GMO seed crops within miles, the plant in question could be sold as open pollinated but actually now have GMO traits? Somebody please set me straight on this?

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