This document discusses methods for keeping seeds pure when growing crops, including bagging unopened flowers to prevent cross-pollination, caging plants to exclude insects, and leaving enough distance between varieties. It also notes that newly harvested seeds should not be immediately stored in plastic bags due to their high moisture content.
This document discusses methods for keeping seeds pure when growing crops, including bagging unopened flowers to prevent cross-pollination, caging plants to exclude insects, and leaving enough distance between varieties. It also notes that newly harvested seeds should not be immediately stored in plastic bags due to their high moisture content.
This document discusses methods for keeping seeds pure when growing crops, including bagging unopened flowers to prevent cross-pollination, caging plants to exclude insects, and leaving enough distance between varieties. It also notes that newly harvested seeds should not be immediately stored in plastic bags due to their high moisture content.
lination occurs even before the flower opens. Bagging.
When only a small amount of
seed is needed, cover the unopened flowers Other types of perfect flowers require with a paper bag. This is applicable for crops cross-pollination. An external pollinator with a high but not 100% rate of self-polli- such as an insect is necessary. Onion, car- nation, such as pepper and eggplant. You rot, cabbage, and radish, for example, can also bag the flowers of cucurbits (Fig. belong to this type. 3); in this case, both male and female flower Plants with imperfect flowers require should be bagged, but hand-pollination is wind or insects such as bees to transmit pol- required. len from the anthers of the male flowers to Caging. Cages can be used for vegetables the stigma of the female flowers. Maize, for that flower over a long time or to prevent example, is cross-pollinated by wind, while insects from transmitting pollen from two cucurbits are cross-pollinated by bees. nearby varieties of the same crop (Fig. 4). You can use bamboo rods stuck in the How to keep seeds pure? ground to make an arched tunnel and cov- Keep in mind that natural cross-pollination ered with nylon mesh. Because the cage will can always happen to some extent under a exclude all insects, you may need to hand field situation, even in self-pollinating pollinate the plant to ensure seed set, or you plants. It often occurs when pollen grains can introduce bees into the cage if they are stick onto the bodies of insects visiting flow- cross-pollinated species. ers, and then carry the pollen grains to the next flower they visit. What is the best way to store Isolation in distance. Pure seeds can be seeds? produced by leaving enough distance be- After saving your seeds, it is important to tween two or more varieties to prevent keep them alive for future use. Newly har- cross-pollination by insect or wind-blown vested seeds should not be immediately pollen. How far apart differs among veg- stored in a plastic bag because the moisture etables; this will be described for each content of the seed is still high and will lead vegetable in the following chapters. to deterioration.
Fig. 3. Bagging bitter gourd flower for hand pol- Fig. 4. Isolation of pepper selections in nylon lination net tunnels
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