Heirloom vrs. Hybrid Part 2

 Part 1 was about Heirlooms, this is gonna be about Hybrids! I didn't know a great deal about the scientific part going into this research study that I have done. I have found out lots of great information and two blogs that have lots of great information on it for us all to read. The name of the blog's are  "The Garden of Eaden" and "The Green Girls". I also received lots of good information off of one of my favorite site "The Victory Garden".
 Here is what I learned in a summary and you can check out the other articles latter! A hybrid seed is one that has been created by artificially cross pollinating two or more varieties of a plant so that the resulting plants will have better disease resistance, produce more, and have a uniform color, texture, and flavor. Hybrid seeds are the first generation of seeds from the cross pollination process. You are supposed to get more "bang for your buck" with hybrid seeds. Just be sure to water, fertilize, and keep the bugs and weeds away and you should have a successful harvest. Another thing I found out is that some hybrid tomatoes are bred to be picked green and gas ripened because that is what is needed for commercial growing and shipping! Ripen-Green-Tomatoes
   I guess it would be like one of those churches that just do whatever they can to grow bigger and get more and more people in the door and in the pew at whatever cost. Sacrificing the truth and fullness of Gods Word to achieve this. The pastors of those churches get a bigger yield but their fruit (congregation) are not as flavorful and may not produce fruit like the parent plant (in must cases, not all). Hybrids become more clonish (if you will) and have less individuality, losing their own individual flavor because they didn't grow the way God intended them to, they grow how some else thought they should. Just a thought of contrast!

Would you rather it be like this?

  Pros of using hybrid seeds: Much research has gone into the production of hybrid seeds to ensure the seeds produce plants that have the best attributes of their "parent" plants. The produce you get from a hybrid seed is more attractive and uniform that the produce from an heirloom seed (just remember beauty is in the eye of the beholder). You usually get a bigger yield from a hybrid plant and the shelf life of hybrid produce is usually longer than that of it's heirloom cousin (you sacrifice a lot for that). Hybrid plants are more disease resistant than their heirloom cousins (that is yet to be proven to me).

Or this?

  Cons of using hybrid seeds: The produce from a hybrid seed may not be as flavorful as its heirloom cousin due to emphasis being placed on uniformity, production, and shelf life rather than flavor. The biggest difference though between hybrid and heirloom plants is the inability to harvest seeds from a hybrid and produce the same or similar plant next year. With hybrids the resulting seeds may be sterile or produce something totally unlike the plant it was harvested from.





  While searching around and trying to find the real meanings between theses two groups of seeds I found one more group called "organic seeds". I have found that they are a lot like the "heirloom seed group", with the exception that they have to have been grown in these conditions.  The soil grown in can not have had any non organic fertilizers or hormone additives. The plants themselves can never have had pesticides or any other non organic chemical placed on them. Basically they have to be 100% grown the way God intended them to be grown, to be certified as "organic seeds".  I wanted to share what Cristy@CraftyCristy shared with us, "I have found organic seeds that are hybrids. So organic does not equal heirloom. You have to check. Organic just talks about how it is grown. It can't be genetically modified, but it can be hybrid."  For more on "Organic" check out, AMS, USDA or CCOF.
  I hope this helped and didn't confuse you more in anyway. My example was just that, not all large churches fit that mold, I was just trying to show how things can loss their heirloom qualities or heritage if trying to be conformed to something that God never intended for the individual (veggie or person) to be. When God saved me, He didn't take the good characteristics out of me that made me Clint (and make me like a spasific group), He took my imperfections and placed on Jesus and Jesus' righteousness and place on me Check out "Can We Do Enough". God Bless each of you!

Matthew 13:22 "Now he who received seed among the thorns is he who hears the word, and the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful. ²³ But he who received seed on the good ground is he who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and produces: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.”