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    I see some of you save seeds from your veg for the following year.
    Have you ever had any interesting cross breed plants?
    Are they ever successful of are they always a let down?

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    Yes, in my early days of seed saving I saved a few hot chillies without bagging the flowers or isolating the plants. The following year the plants were a huge disappointment. They fruited OK but the chillies were tasteless. I won't both saving any chilli seed now unless I've ensured they have been saved correctly.

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    • #3
      I had a weird squash that looked half squash/half courgette plus it was tasteless

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      • #4
        Never had anything good from cross pollinating but I did save seed from a hooligan pumpkin (F1) and the next generation gave 3 distinct types and one was a really nice small sweet nutty flavoured one.

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        • #5
          I have also had useless chillies from chillies.

          I have what is either a rogue or a crossed French bean that I am trying to stabilise. If I can get it to stay true then I get to name it. Yay!! 'Course it might do something else on the way - it takes 7 generations before you can assume it's stable. And because they were beans from somewhere else, if it's a cross I only know what one of the parents was.
          http://mudandgluts.com - growing fruit and veg in suburbia

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