I saved and planted tomatoes from a hybrid I grew last year. This year was the first time I grew tomatoes from any seed. They were super hardy and tasted so much better than my last years crop. Probably the best tasting I ever grew. My neighbors and family are loving them. I had one plant that was smaller and had heart shaped tomatoes but have the same flavor. I think, as the farmer said, the subsequent generations become better suited to the soil and weather conditions you continue to grow them in and you get a better variety for you. But, send them to a person in another location they may have a very different experience.

After watching this video, I feel like I got my daily walk today. ☺

I'll save whatever seeds I want, screw this wicked beast system. God gave me the RIGHT to grow my own food,his permission is ALL I need.

Great energy, man! I've been stumbling through the youtube fields and found this beaut of a video. Got a sub ;)

Over the years I've done exactly as you are explaining with sweet corn and peppers. I started with a variety I enjoyed that was originally a hybrid and have been selecting from the crop each year for the traits I prefer. It's true that if you do that they don't always come out the same as the original plant you started with but they do get better suited to your climate and eventually and over time you can get something that suits your taste.

Very informative and the walking around was great too, the forest you were in is a great place to film your videos. I want some of these chicken bean seeds if they come about

Once I got small peppers (probably F1), red, tasty, they looked like little flattened tomatoes. I collected the seeds and sowed them for the next season. Several plants grew which gave me black fruit the size of a pea. Many years ago I also got a pumpkin with a hokkaido look. I harvested the seeds and also sowed the next year. The plants gave large round pumpkins, very tasty and most importantly I did not have to peel them as they softened while cooking like a hokkaido pumpkin. Most likely, other varieties grew in the field of my first pumpkin and crossed each other. The seeds harvested from this cross in the following generations and years still yielded large tasty fruits also with a softened skin. A variety (?) With very desirable characteristics, my favorite, was created by accident. So let's try and ... let nature surprise you.

Great video. I learned many things from it. Thanks.

I feel we can't tell what we're really buying with seeds off ebay. What seed companies can we really trust? Great video and thanks.

Very interesting! Thank you for the help.

I have always wondered that how can anyone sell hybrid seeds if those seeds cannot be harvested? Where do those hybrid seeds come from then? I have harvested hybrid tomato seeds and I have to say that the "fruit" from those seeds are the best ones ever. I don't know if those are the "original ones" and I don't care. They are so sweet with thick flesh and taste amazing.

Very interesting!

Oh thank you for explaining this in a way I could understand it...awesome...thanks.

Great video and great info How far apart do you plant each variety of tomatoes for them not to cross? Thank you and God bless

I saved Roma type seeds and over 5 years of saving them they started to climb and become more pear shaped and bigger. But it crossed with my cherry and regular tomatoes breeds. I gave it up. I found out you can't have variety and an exclusive dna seed tomatoes. They seemed foam like inside. I cooked and ate them but after that it was there and then I knew I was no longer dealing with a Roma tomatoe but a weird non stop growing monster. They are determinate and they are not supposed to climb. Best of luck. Thanks for the video.

Wow I learned but dizzy from yur walk................Thanks

Heirloom = 50+ years, btw.

yeah, the public have wrong information about what hybrid and GMO means, i mean in general they all believe most commercially grown seeds are GMOs, the truth is they are mostly hybrids crossed from open pollinated varieties, chance you will get open varieties if you replant the hybrid seeds bc of genertics GMOs are made using CRISPR tech or other, and are mostly even more expensive than hybrids, and are mostly designed to resist herbicides

Thanks for a super informative video... I am definitely gonna try saving hybrid sweetcorn seeds and I will come back here to comment section after 6 months or so to share my experience... By the way, you got me bursting out in laughter with your chicken tasting beans... But I am sure those will be a hit once you have them stabilized.

I grew Kentucky Wonder from High Mowing 5 years ago. They started out reddish brown. The same color and size as most Kentucky Wonder pole beans. After the second year growing only that variety, my beans are now uniformly grayish and almost doubled in size. Definitely not what I started with. My only theory is that it crossed with a neighbor's beans, or was already crossed when I got them, and I inadvertently selected for the current genetic traits when saving seed and discarding my undesirable beans. Either way, now I have a new variety, and I will continue to collect the same exact ones. It's actually doing far better now than the first year I grew it.

If I'm planting tomatoes for personal use I really don't care if they look like the advertised picture. I'll be saving seeds from hybrids.

Great vid. Maybe you can use the chicken beans to make non meat chicken burgers:)

Lol...all I did was make a really scary weird cross between a spaghetti squash and a zucchini...weirdest thing ever...but still kinda fun and was actually kinda tasty...wish it had tasted like chicken though 😞. Lol...great channel btw...

Did you backcross your F2 progeny with the original F1 hybrid?

Some broccoli, I had came very very thin and some did not produce at all. It matters how the hybrid was grown up to know his family background. How many parents as well.. If they were a good match.. like all things in life..

I'm curious if you can grow a large cucumber and pull the seeds and plant them and have cucumbers next year.

Farmer Andy 🚜 At the 💰 price of $.50 a seed, I think that is why the seed wholesalers tell you why keeping hybridized seeds is very bad

I'm not entirely convinced that Good News Farm are saving a true hybrid seed or if they are, perhaps both parents were so similar and strong that he is getting a heritage type seed result. OR he's been saving the biggest and best of the plants (as we all should) and he has returned to one of the parents....that said I have had problems with saving hybrids and had issues with cross pollination from the neighbors...I just try to stick with heirlooms and will continue to try and not have much cross....maybe i'll give hybrid a try again...who knows? BTW the beans you got were beautiful! ☮

Chicken Beans!!!

Question Please: So if you have 2 different Heirloom tomato plants setting close to each other, will those cross pollinate into hybrid seeds?

The question is not wether or not you can (you always can save the seeds), it's wether or not you should save hybrid seeds. Yes, you can get lucky and get great products from them, but the way I was tought (over 40 years ago) that if you sow hybrid seeds, you get plants from every variety that was in the motherplant. And ofcourse you can select the best of that an sow them again and after a couple of years you might get a stable product. But is it worth your time? Or not? That's a question that everyone should ask themselves. If you're a bit adventurous and have a lot of time on your hands, or your just curious and like these kind of puzzles, by all means, go for it. But if you're not very patient by nature, don't do it. Also remember that it's usually one or more steps back. Call it reversed evolution (devolution???). Also, like a lot of things, we do things because we can, not because we should...

You still have been to eat though . So it is worthy to save , specially if it is a family that can’t use a lot of money :)

id love some chicken beans lol

Jeez, with my luck, rather than tasting like chicken, I'd end up with beans that tasted like, I don't know, maybe buzzard pus?

Why are walking around?

How many years till you call it heirloom? Wrong question. It's how many generations of inbreeding before they can be called a stable heirloom variety? 10 generations. Once you have f10 seeds, if you did everything correctly you have a new heirloom variety you can name yourself.

What does Bible say about hybrid or genetic modification-You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your cattle breed with a different kind. You shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed, nor shall you wear a garment of cloth made of two kinds of material. - Leviticus 19:19

A doberman and a Chihuahua would produce a mutt NOT. A hybrid A hybrid would be a lion and a tiger Or a horse and a donkey And a hybrid is , by definition STERILE. THIS VIDEO IS JUST PLAIN WRONG