[Sca-cooks] Planting Period Spices from Seed

[Jenne Heise]

> It depends on whether they have 'improved' the seeds and now they are hybrids.
> A little off topic from this, I bought some natural hulless popcorn that
> they specifically say on the package, "unauthorized seed multiplication is
> prohibited."  Actually there was some other natural, organic product that
> said the same thing.  So you know that if you plant the seeds and they
> germinate you will get the same product.

Some hybrids breed true, some don't. That that label was put on what was probably a
patented hybrid doesn't mean it will breed true: it just means that the company that owns
the rights to that seed forbids you to try to multiply it.

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