Comparing quantities: Store-bought hybrid seeds vs. our non-hybrid seeds.
When you plant hybrid seeds, you get a really nice, disease-resistant plant with beautiful fruits. The problem is that the seeds of the hybrid (unless seeds have been bred out, as in some varieties of watermelon, for example) will either not germinate at all, or will revert to produce the character-istics of the individual parent plants (one, perhaps, a scrawny, ugly plant with inedible fruit that'll live through anything, and the other, a plant producing gorgeous fruit that dies if you so much as sneeze near it.). So, storing hybrid (grocery store/garden shop/hardware store bought) seeds is risky. You have no idea if the harvested seeds will produce edible fruit/vegetables the following year.
Seeds are living things. They need air to "breathe." When they're vacuum packed in a can, they die! We urge you NOT to buy canned seeds.
This information from:
http://internet-grocer.net/seeds.htm
Great info. Where do you get the seeds we should store?
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