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Tips for Selecting the Best Vegetables Seeds
There is always some risk in selecting the best vegetables seeds. A seed may appear to be alright and yet not have within it enough vitality or power, to produce a hardy plant so follow these tips when selecting seeds for your next season of vegetables.
If you save seed from your own plants choose these carefully. Don’t only rely on the appearance of the plant’s blossom because a weak, straggly plant may produce one fine blossom. In seed selection you need to consider the entire plant. Is it sturdy, strong, well shaped and symmetrical? does it have a good number of fine blossoms? These are questions to ask in seed selection.
Look for good sized seeds. Choose the largest and fullest seed because the beginning of the new plant depends for its early growth on the nourishment stored up in the two halves of the seed. And so if you choose a large seed, you chose a greater amount of food for the plantlet. If the seed is small and thin, the first food supply is insufficient and there is a possibility of losing the plantlet.
Make sure that you select clean vegetables seeds. You can clean large seeds relatively easily but if small seeds are unclean, it is very difficult, almost impossible, to make them clean.
Look out for good seed viability. Seeds retain their viability or germ developing power over a given number of years and then they are useless. There is a viability limit in years which differs for different seeds.
If the germination percentage of vegetables seeds is low, don't waste time planting unless they are small seeds. When small seed is planted it is usually sown in drills and sprinkles in thickly. Enough seed germinates and comes up from such close planting. So quantity makes up for quality.
In the case of large seed, like corn seeds are planted far apart and a few seeds in a place. With this style of planting the germination percentage is very important.
Small seeds like lettuce with a fifty percent germination rate may be planted but this is too low a rate for large seed like beans with a germination percentage of seventy. If low-vitality seeds are planted, you can’t be absolutely certain of the seventy per cent coming up.
But if the low-vitality seeds are lettuce go ahead with the planting!
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