(Video) How To Breed A New Sort Of Tomatoes
The art of cross-pollinating and breeding new tomatoes, aubergines, peppers and potatoes
Have you always wanted to create your own tomato or pepper species but never truly knew how? It’s indeed a tricky work and you need to be very gentle with your veggies and fruits flowers, so you don’t damage them.
You’ll learn why you need the stigma of the flower so you can cross-pollinate the plant.
Basically, the underlying mechanism is transferring pollen from one flower to another, thus crossing two sorts of the same plant.
With a little practice you can create your own sorts, and save the seeds as heirlooms, so you can keep growing these new sorts in the future.
It’s a great way of creating varieties, and yet keeping them GMO-free. Besides there’s nothing more precious than keeping your own heirloom seeds.
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