Hawg Wild
Well-Known Member
Basically, an heirloom is the exact opposite of what you think it is. It is an unadultered, unhybridized traditional cultivar. There are no "GDP heirlooms" outside of a seed company advertising blurb designed to make you think you're buying something with a long tradition behind it when you're actually buying s1s of some other seed company's work (most likely another GDP knock-off).I don't know about a family heirloom. However, an heirloom is a seed that is removed from a bud with a knife and started in a paper towel from a plant that is in the same family as the plants in the vintage catalogs. The seed doesn't have to come from generations of farmers.