Earlier this year, I poo-poohed folks here on THP and elsewhere for whining about finding that open-pollinated seeds they'd bought ended up being unknown crosses.
My thoughts were (maybe still are?) that you know that's a possibility when you bought the seeds, and that open-pollinated seeds tend to cost less, you get what you pay for, caveat emptor, et cetera ad nauseum...
After all, last year, I grew dozens and dozens of plants from seeds I got from a very popular purveyor of value-priced open-pollinated seeds. (I don't want to mention any names, bc I don't want ppl to think negatively of the business; the seeds are clearly described as open-pollinated when I bought them, and I knew the risks going in...) Of well over fifty plants from that source(and probably more; that's a conservative estimate) only two didn't produce pods true to the strain. That's a <4% rate of crossed seeds. I felt super confident about them.
Fast-forward to right now, and of 9 plants that have produced ripe pods, 3 were way off-pheno, and probable crosses. There's a few others that are suspect, but we'll see what happens when they color up. But yeah, jumping from 4% to 33%, that don't feel good.
Mostly bc I hate to admit to myself that I was wrong.
So far, I've been enjoying the off-pheno pods; they aren't bad at all, but they're disappointing in regards to my hopes and dreams; my plans and schemes. But, for the past week, I've been suffering from a sudden and as-of-yet unexplained case of Dysgeusia, which really sucks and I hope it passes bc everything tastes wise and it makes it much harder for me to analyze and judge these weird pods.
What do the rest of y'all Do when you end up putting a lot of time and effort into growing plants, only to be confronted by unexpectedly weird pods?
My thoughts were (maybe still are?) that you know that's a possibility when you bought the seeds, and that open-pollinated seeds tend to cost less, you get what you pay for, caveat emptor, et cetera ad nauseum...
After all, last year, I grew dozens and dozens of plants from seeds I got from a very popular purveyor of value-priced open-pollinated seeds. (I don't want to mention any names, bc I don't want ppl to think negatively of the business; the seeds are clearly described as open-pollinated when I bought them, and I knew the risks going in...) Of well over fifty plants from that source(and probably more; that's a conservative estimate) only two didn't produce pods true to the strain. That's a <4% rate of crossed seeds. I felt super confident about them.
Fast-forward to right now, and of 9 plants that have produced ripe pods, 3 were way off-pheno, and probable crosses. There's a few others that are suspect, but we'll see what happens when they color up. But yeah, jumping from 4% to 33%, that don't feel good.
Mostly bc I hate to admit to myself that I was wrong.
So far, I've been enjoying the off-pheno pods; they aren't bad at all, but they're disappointing in regards to my hopes and dreams; my plans and schemes. But, for the past week, I've been suffering from a sudden and as-of-yet unexplained case of Dysgeusia, which really sucks and I hope it passes bc everything tastes wise and it makes it much harder for me to analyze and judge these weird pods.
What do the rest of y'all Do when you end up putting a lot of time and effort into growing plants, only to be confronted by unexpectedly weird pods?
