Seed Swap

[duckman1911]

Originally Posted by casmurf

I have been saving my seeds for a couple years now,mostly cucs and maters .never had much luck with peppers. very rewarding. I got my start from Annies Heirlooms.

We got a really late start on our peppers this year. We raise gypsy and cayenne peppers. Im hoping they still do well despite our late start.

[lil bubba]

I planted 2 variety's of cukes and the hybrid is shot but I saw in the baker creek site straight 8 is an heirloom cuke and thats the other I planted and it produced a lil later but I am still picking now. Picked 6 today off only 3 vines. I will deff. save seeds on this one. The hybrid is all but dead.

[duckman1911]

Originally Posted by lil bubba

I planted 2 variety's of cukes and the hybrid is shot but I saw in the baker creek site straight 8 is an heirloom cuke and thats the other I planted and it produced a lil later but I am still picking now. Picked 6 today off only 3 vines. I will deff. save seeds on this one. The hybrid is all but dead.

You may know this already and if so maybe it will help others. Pick out 3-4 cukes on your heathiest vines and just let them grow and grow. You want the seeds to have time to fully mature. Cukes have a ton of seeds so 3-4 may seem like an over kill. We do that many so when we pick one and seed it we have some back ups incase the seeds aren't fully mature. You basically want to let it grow as long as possible. You want a nice plump seed. If its flat its trash.