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Post by daylilydude on Feb 8, 2018 4:50:47 GMT -5
What happens when you grow that seed out to fruiting and find out it's not what you thought or expected it to be??
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Post by brownrexx on Feb 8, 2018 8:37:01 GMT -5
Depends whether I like the fruit or not. I don't give space in my garden to useless plants. If either we or the chickens are not eating the fruit then the plant will go to the compost pile.
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Post by ahntjudy on Feb 8, 2018 9:24:15 GMT -5
That horrible yellow tomato I grew from the free seeds...mealy, tasteless, juiceless... Not ever wasting space on yellow tomatoes again...
But, disliking to waste stuff, I froze some, just as I do my good tomatoes... Figured I could add it to soups or something...
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Post by brownrexx on Feb 8, 2018 9:39:19 GMT -5
But, disliking to waste stuff, I froze some, You are so funny. My hubby is just like that too. I have to rip out extra plants when he is not home or he will transplant them because he "feels sorry" for them. I consider compost to be a valuable use of plants that I don't like.
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Post by mgulfcoastguy on Feb 8, 2018 9:43:37 GMT -5
I heard once “everybody improves the world, some by their arrival and some by their departure “. I usually just throw bad seed away.
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Post by paulf on Feb 8, 2018 9:58:18 GMT -5
"Rouge it out" is my motto. Last year there were at least three tomato varieties that were not the varieties I expected. It may have been my fault or maybe not. One small round red got to live because my wife liked the flavor and used it on salads. The other two, what was supposed to be a large grew a cherry and another yellow that was a salad size...pulled and tossed. All three seed stocks were tossed and replacement seeds purchased.
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Feb 8, 2018 10:50:17 GMT -5
Well, I guess I'm in minority. I just can't rip it out. In for a penny, in for a pound. I don't eat half the stuff I grow. I grow to save seed.
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Post by september on Feb 8, 2018 11:21:41 GMT -5
I let a wrong variety grow for the season, but don't grow it again if I don't like it. I figure at least it's something nice and green to look at and takes up space that would otherwise go to weeds.
Funny, I do keep seeds for all tomatoes I have ever grown, even if I don't like them and never plan to grow them again. Probably silly of me, but the collection of tomato seeds is my main hobby, so I keep everything forever!
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Feb 8, 2018 11:39:49 GMT -5
Put me in the "depends on whether I like it" group. If it doesn't taste good, I rip it out. If it tastes good, it stays.
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Feb 8, 2018 11:40:31 GMT -5
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Post by mgulfcoastguy on Feb 8, 2018 12:22:48 GMT -5
Several years I ordered Mule Team tomato seed from Baker's Creek. What I received was NOT Mule Team but the folks liked it immensely. Unfortunately I had planted several types of tomatoes that year and saving seed would have been useless. Also since I didn't know the proper name of the seed, the order couldn't be repeated.
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Post by tomike on Feb 8, 2018 16:10:36 GMT -5
My experience over the years with the "NOT's" , in general. has not been GOOD but there have been a few of these "NOT's" that turned out to be excellent and worth re-growing the following year just out of curiosity..... and others to continue growing as a pet-project in an attempt to obtain a stable variety with good taste and production.....
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