I TESTED Starting Seeds from 6 Grocery Store Vegetables - Here’s What Happened

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• MI

  @MindandSoil · 1 year ago · pinned

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• JT

  @jtlinux7174 · 1 year ago

  Just letting you know that serranos/jalapenos need to ripen to red in order for the seeds to germinate.

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• FU

  @Fulkersons · 1 year ago

  The problem with starting seeds from the grocery store is most of those seeds are hybrids, so they will grow, and probably produce, but who knows what you will get. &nbsp;Most grocery store fruits and veggies are selected because of the shelf life, and ability to be shipped. Buying seeds gives you an amazing assortment of flavors and attributes that you can&apos;t get from the store. It was a fun experiment, but people are better off buying seeds, and saving seeds from their own plants. Thanks, it was interesting.

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• MI

  @mikebrennan8288 · 1 year ago (edited)

  1. If you want to plant seeds from vegies you buy at the store, buy &quot;Heirloom&quot; varieties, to make sure you are not getting hybrids, which will not breed true (though that might not mater to you that much).<br>2. A lot of vegies in the store are picked before they ripen, which means the seeds are not fully developed. In this video the pepper, cucumber, and peas were all not ripe (the cuc possibly was also a hybrid that develops few seeds). If you are saving your own seeds, let the fruit ripen on the vine (though you likely won&apos;t want to eat the cuc or peas if you do. The pepper will be fine).<br>3. If you are planting several varieties of each veg, you might accidentally make hybrids (really likely with squash). You may want to control where the pollen comes from by putting a small bag over the female flower, and tie it off. Then hand pollenate with a male of the correct variety. <br><br>Have fun!

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• PA

  @Pam-z7p · 1 year ago (edited)

  For both the peppers and cucumbers: the green vegetables are good for eating, but the seeds need to mature more with the vegetables themselves getting yellow or even red before harvesting. So basically, &nbsp;you experiment needed those to sit on the plant or counter to mature more before harvesting the seeds. Also, I understand that some produce sellers irradiate their vegetables to prevent the seeds from reproducing. Hence preventing the home gardener from using them instead of buying their products. More profitable for them.

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• MR

  @MrSB_90 · 1 year ago

  Someone already commentes it but I came to say that the peppers did not germinate because they were unripe. Have to use red ones 👍

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• MA

  @madwoman8297 · 1 year ago

  I&apos;ve just grown great mini peppers from a package of mini grocery-bought peppers. Yes, they are coloured, but I&apos;ve also used the unripe ones when i needed green peppers for a recipe

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• LD

  @ldygzlle1291 · 1 year ago

  I’m glad you’re doing these tests. It’s worth a like and a comment for the algo. Garden on!

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• WI

  @willmckee1632 · 3 months ago

  While the seed packet ones generally do better, consider that it’s actually just really fun to grow stuff from the store

• HA

  @haroldnicholos7436 · 1 year ago

  I had amazing year end success by using bell pepper seeds from Walmart.

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• BO

  @BonzaAussieSheila · 1 year ago

  Growing up, &nbsp;our vegie garden mostly started from the compost heap. Kitchen scraps. Tomato, onion, potato, &nbsp;sweet potato, cucumber, &nbsp;watermelon, peas, beans, garlic.....<br>We had a corner out back that vegie/fruit scraps , lawn clippings, and horse poop would get thrown, and things grew, they get transferred over to vegie garden.

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• JO

  @johnhosie1756 · 1 year ago

  That squash (butternut)is a hybrid <br>The plants that grow from it&apos;s seeds grown small greenish pumpkins