Does Hybrid Mean Sterile?
By Amelia Tucker
When planting hybrid tomatoes, are you safe from escape plants for the next season? No!
Hybrid tomatoes are a combination of varieties making a third plant with the desired qualities of the first two plants in it.
When you save the seeds from a hybrid tomato, you have no idea what variety will grow the following year.
You could end up with something that simply won’t grow in your area, soil ph or watering conditions by itself. Imagine all the wasted effort from saving seeds to nurturing seedlings to hardening off and finally planting, only to see the plants die off no matter what you try.
If you are going to go through the time and effort of carefully saving your seeds, like anything, only save the best samples you can. This means knowing the variety and not just saving any seed you can salvage.
