This year I would like to experiment in saving (pure) seed. Because I like to have many different varieties of tomatoes, melons and peppers, and they have to be all in the greenhouse and they all cross-pollinate, I should take some other precautions to prevent this from happening (I cannot space my varieties to the safe distances that I have seen on the net).
For my tomatoes I use a net that I made from a 30x30cm mesh - just a thread along the sides and when you pull the thread it encloses the group of flowers until the tomatoes are formed.
I could do the same for the peppers and the melons but for the melons I would have bigger nets probably and for the peppers a lot more sacks since they are small and don't come in groups like the tomatoes.
I read somewhere though that you can glue the flowers with some ordinary white crafting/children glue ? Does anybody know how to do this properly ?
How do you prevent cross pollination or I one of a very small group of freaks who minds the small chance of cross-pollination.
I know other (tomato)forums where they absolutely don't care about cross pollination but how can you make a fair trade/exchange/swap if you are not sure about the properties of the plants from the seed you saved ?
For my tomatoes I use a net that I made from a 30x30cm mesh - just a thread along the sides and when you pull the thread it encloses the group of flowers until the tomatoes are formed.
I could do the same for the peppers and the melons but for the melons I would have bigger nets probably and for the peppers a lot more sacks since they are small and don't come in groups like the tomatoes.
I read somewhere though that you can glue the flowers with some ordinary white crafting/children glue ? Does anybody know how to do this properly ?
How do you prevent cross pollination or I one of a very small group of freaks who minds the small chance of cross-pollination.
I know other (tomato)forums where they absolutely don't care about cross pollination but how can you make a fair trade/exchange/swap if you are not sure about the properties of the plants from the seed you saved ?