Heirloom Vs Hybrid: The New Traits Of The Bio-Diversity

Deciding which seed to pick for your garden can be daunting, you might want both hybrid and heirloom species of plants, but you do not know how to differentiate the two. This blog has made your task easy for blooming your little garden; keep reading to know the difference.

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Hybrid 

• Science has not to leave hybridization just on mixing two different plant species to get a new one like, mixing the red flower plant with yellow flower plant to get the orange flower plant is not what the hybridization means. The hybrid plants are referred to as ‘F1 Hybrid’ and it is strictly determined in the seed industry. The cross-pollination that happens naturally in the wild does not consider as an F1 hybrid.
• The gardener selects two of the parent plants and cross-breeds them intentionally for getting the specific traits. The hybrid plants grow quickly and they are disease resistant too.
• The child plant that has been produced using two dominant parents carry similar traits, flavor, and color of the parents. Like, the Exotic Genetics, a Washington based company produces a tart, sweet helmet, and maroon baboon feminized plants species. In some exotic genetics hybrid plants, the dominant parent is the female plant, which is useful in having millions of hemp plants.
• The hybrid plants are forced to do the cross-pollination under a certain temperature so that the baby seed can grow and develop. Many of these hybrid seeds degrade during the process, but that does not mean you failed here; water, soil and a desirable atmosphere are needed for growing a hybrid plant.
• One thing the gardener takes care of is that the seeds obtained from hybridization cannot be saved from year to year. As the hybrid seeds will not produce the same traits next year as expected. This is why Gardner used the seeds in the same year and prevent them from getting impaired.
• If you are looking for quick and vast growth in your land, you can buy hybrid seeds, also they are disease resistant and do not get destroyed by the flies and beetles.

Heirloom

• The heirloom plants and vegetables are not special species of plants, they are produced through ‘open-pollination’ like with the wind or any insect carrying the male pollen. Any type of plant and vegetable that has been saved for many years by the gardener to passed down the traits of any dominant species into the resultant food falls under the category of heirlooms.
  
  
• Many gardeners claim that most of the heirloom vegetables have a greater taste as compared to hybrid fruits and vegetables. Though it all depends on the tastebuds of the human, some people like hybrid fruits tasty and some love heirloom fruits.

• The biggest advantage of open pollination is that the seed produced can be saved and stored for years to years, and produces a pool of heirloom seeds for making future breeding easy. Well, known open-pollination breeds are California Wonder pepper, Roma tomatoes, IndicaHemp, and Sativa Hemp, etc.
  
  
• Duke Diamond breeder uses the Indica and Sativa hemp plants as a dominant parent for producing the mix species like  Duke Diamond-Headband X Afghani, and Duke Diamond-Lavender X Afghani, etc.
   
• Plants that do not belong to the selected species of fruit and vegetables are removed by the gardener to prevent open pollination. The gardener only allows those plants in the ground that he wants to see the traits of cross-pollination in the child plant.
  
  
• All heirloom plants are produced through open-pollination, but not all open-pollination plants are called heirloom. Only some specific plants are considered heirloom as they carry a story from our ancestors and the traits of one plant can be passed on to the other for may years.

By choosing the hybrid and heirloom varieties of seeds you have the opportunity to help to save the biodiversity and you can contribute your story behind the seeds.