Sentences with phrase «viable seed»

The chile peppers, if harvested correctly, are a source of viable seed.

Furthermore, beets are self - incompatible, meaning each plant must have pollen from a genetically different individual to produce viable seed.

If they start turning red, you can pick them and they will continue to mature, yielding viable seeds.

«As long as the older trees are not so stressed that they do not produce many viable seeds, [and] the dispersal mechanism — for example, wind, birds, mammals — is present, and the habitat where the seed lands has the appropriate soil, nutrients and temperature,» says biologist Terry Root of Stanford University, who was not involved in the study, «then the trees will be able to shift.»

Here I experienced the joy of a chile hunter: I didn't have to get one of the bags of dried peppers, which might have come from somewhere else or be dried too hot to get viable seed.

This cross pollination may result in viable seed.

The species produces seeds early in its lifespan, tends to make millions of viable seeds during its life, and continues to produce seeds for decades and, in some cases, for more than a century.

When those measures fail, farmers are turning to cover crops to block weed growth and tilling the soil to kill emerged weeds or bury viable seeds deep below the soil surface.

The most ancient viable seed, from a 2,000 - year - old date, was excavated from a fortress near the Dead Sea.

The desperation with which poets like Byron and Shelley wanted their words to sow viable seeds speaks to the insufficiency of Man in the creative enterprise.

After all, it shows a certain level of horticultural competency if you can say that you have cross-bred certain strains and / or harvested viable seed.

Seed dispersal by large - bodied vertebrates is via the ingestion of viable seeds that pass through the digestive tract intact.

Seedling starters can also prevent your garden from being overpopulated after planting too many viable seeds.

Crops within the Beta vulgaris species are fully sexually compatible and mating between any two of these crops will occur if they flower in proximity to one another, as pollen from one will readily fertilize any of the other's flowers, resulting in viable offspring that produce viable seed.

When frutescens pollinates annuum, there is no viable seed, but when annuum pollinates frutescens, there is a limited amount of viable seed.

Climatic conditions at the Dead Sea may have contributed to the longevity of this oldest, directly dated, viable seed.

This «gift» would have produced no viable seeds for future plantings and would have required a large amount of heavy chemical inputs.

Most TreeHuggers will tell you that without access to decent, viable seed, and without a system for allowing that seed to develop and adapt, the long - term sustainability of our food system is nigh - on impossible.