ADVANCED Seed Varieties: Understand Parthenocarpy, Interspecies Hybrids, Heat Set, & More!
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- čas přidán 6. 08. 2024
- Are you ready to take your garden seed shopping beyond "hybrid vs. heirloom"? In today's video, I'll show you five advanced traits you can look for in vegetable varieties that are sure to boost your vegetable output!
We'll dive into the following five traits and why you just might need to incorporate them into your garden next year:
1. Parthenocarpic Vegetable Varieties possess the incredible ability to set fruit without pollination. If you've ever struggled with unpollinated cucumber, zucchini, or even tomato and eggplant flowers falling off without setting fruit - it's time to try a parthenocarpic variety. They're helpful for gardeners with hot summers, cool Springs, and even in cloudy areas like the Pacific Northwest and the San Francisco Bay Area.
2. Heat Set Vegetable Varieties are adept at continuing to set fruit despite scorching sun and high temperatures. If you are tired of dealing with tomato flowers falling off the vine without any fruit during your hottest months of the summer, check out a heat set variety.
3. Interspecies Hybrid Vegetable Varieties are the result of crossing two different species and not two different *varieties*. In other words, they are a in a whole different class compared to our typical garden hybrids. In this video, we'll look at tetsukabuto, and interspecies hybrid of winter squash that is known for resisting the dreaded vine borer beetle.
4. Early Maturing Varieties grow, flower, and set fruit in record time. And in doing so, they make all aspects of planning and running our gardens easier. If you haven't taken a look at early maturing varieties recently, it's time to check them out because we've got truly incredibly fast-growing tomatoes, squash, eggplants, leafy greens, and more waiting for us test in the garden this year.
5. Slow Bolt Vegetable Varieties keep growing and producing food long after others have succumbed to the season and prematurely flowered. You may have tried old favorites like slow bolt arugula but did you know there are equivalently slow-bolting varieties of lettuce, dill, and others?
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:05 Parthenocarpy
03:33 Slow Bolting
05:23 Heat Set
06:26 Interspecies Hybrids
08:10 Early Maturing
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As a teacher myself you would have made a fantastic one assuming you're not. So much jammed packed knowledge. So glad I found this channel. A diamond in the rough.
Wowser! Great info. Thx!
You are very welcome! Happy it was helpful^^
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I stumbled onto your site while looking into parthenocarpic cucumbers which I just found out about I especially liked the way you said to not just read the seed descriptions in the catalog. It’s so true that every variety is best tasting or last year favorites or sweetest and so on. Do you have a follow up video on your new seeds that you just planted?
I did make a full video on growing cucumbers! Our favorites right now are corinto and unagi. They don't hit every mark but are a great balance and have some wonderful traits!
I got unagi cucumber last year as a nursery start and it was really amazing. I got seeds this year and am looking forward to them again. You're gonna love them
I'm so excited to get them going. It's my mission to find a cucumber variety I can unequivocally recommend. Hopefully this is the year!
I got the Tetsukabuto this year, not knowing any of that! Super cool. Had no idea about heat set either, thank you for this helpful video!
If nothing else, I think it has the coolest name of any variety out there =)
So glad it was helpful - thank you for watching!
I am in the tropics and I am a less than a novice gardener so I need all the help I can get
Hot and humid definitely brings it's own set of challenges! Good luck in the garden next year Kenneth
Is there a continuation to this video? 😢 I only noted 13 of the 61. What are the rest ? Really curious on your in depth selections which likely took hours to comprise. I would definitely use your homework to assist my seed selection next year. Thanks for this awesome vid,much app.
Thank you for checking it out!
Not a continuation of this video per se, but I am 100% going to do a "my favorite variety of every veggie we grow" video at the end of the season. I love talking about varieties =)
@@NextdoorHomestead your the best. I'll be tuning in and definitely looking forward.
Do you jave an update on these new seeds? I would be interested to see if the hype on the packeds paned out.
Not a formal one - but the results so far have been mostly very good. Some of them need more season to bear out (like the eggplant and tetsukabuto), but I will 100% do a "my favorite varieties of the season" video and some of these will make an appearance =)
Nice! I learned some new things. I actually had Tetsukabuto squash in my Johnny’s cart (because I thought it was cute) but that is so cool about interspecies hybrids. Do you know of any squash that can heat set? I planted late last year and July heat killed all the pollen in my tomatoes, squash, melons, pumpkins. It seemed like if the plant wasn’t grown up by June they just couldn’t establish themselves well due to the heat. I had great success with Beit Alpha Cucumbers- they are the self pollinating ones and never got bitter like other varieties did. Thank you for the video ~
No problem, so glad it was informative!
We have the exact same problem here - mid summer might as well be a little winter for how hard it is on our veggies.
Luckily, yes there are some great options in the squash world. Seminole pumpkins are notorious for being able to heat set so that's where I would start. They're a winter squash (moschata).
And for summer squash, my favorite strategy is to grow a round both before and after the worst of the heat. So to do that, grow a fast maturing variety like green machine or cocozelle.
Finally, you can always try a parthenocarpic variety of summer squash like dunja or Parthenon! Like beit alpha cucumbers, those two don't require pollination and aren't even self-pollinated, they simply mature all the fruit on female flowers by default! Very handy when high temperatures start destroying pollen...
I hope this helps and good luck!
@@NextdoorHomestead yay thank you!
Dear mother nature. If you could make everything parthonocarpic that would be great.
I believe a lot of the parthenocarpic varieties (at least tomatoes) are created by breeding with wild tomato (or tomato progenitors really) species! I could be misremembering that though, more research on that front to come =)