Seeds, Organic Seeds, Heirloom Seeds, Open Pollinated and Hybrid Seeds. No added GMO or Ethylene Gas. Fresh local vegetables, healthy plants from our own greenhouses and organic grown.

Nopah Springs hydroponics greenhouses and gardens provides a variety of “premium organic and heirloom seeds” (open-pollinated, organic seeds, vegetable seeds and limited fruit seeds) for clients gardens and for storage.

We grow our own premium organic, heirloom and open-pollinated seeds from hydroponics greenhouses. non gmo, no gas and no pesticides. grown on a small rural farm and not mass produced. (limited seed supplies)

“Fresh quality seeds from healthy plants”!

We provide only premium Organic grown seeds. NO chemicals, herbicides or Ethylene gas. Healthier and more nutritious for you and the family.	Premium Heritage and Heirloom Seeds. Great tasting and odd looking. Collect seeds for future planting or for storage.	Open Pollinated (non-Hybrid seeds) can also be harvested for next year’s crop or for storage.	Hybrid seeds taken from a plant may not germinate or fail to breed true. Generate high yields and are disease tolerant. You must purchase seeds again for the next season crop.	Nopah Springs currently has only a select few fruit seeds available. Join the “Newsletter” and stay informed.

Organic Seeds

Organic seed farming is the form of agriculture that relies on techniques such as crop rotation, green manure, compost and biological pest control to maintain soil productivity and control pests on a farm. Organic farming uses fertilizers and pesticides but excludes or strictly limits the use of manufactured (synthetic) fertilizers, pesticides (which include herbicides, insecticides and fungicides), plant growth regulators such as hormones, livestock antibiotics, food additives, and genetically modified organisms.

Heirloom Seeds

An heirloom plant, heirloom variety, or (especially in the UK) heirloom vegetable is a cultivar that was commonly grown during earlier periods in human history, but which is not used in modern large-scale agriculture. Many heirloom vegetables have kept their traits through open pollination, while fruit varieties such as apples have been propagated over the centuries through grafts and cuttings. The trend of growing heirloom plants in gardens has been growing in popularity in North America and Europe over the last decade.

Open Pollinated Seeds

Open pollination is pollination by insects, birds, wind, or other natural mechanisms, and contrasts with cleistogamy, closed pollination, which is one of the many types of self pollination. Open pollination also contrasts with controlled pollination, which is controlled so that all seeds of a crop are descended from parents with known traits, and are therefore more likely to have the desired traits.

The seeds of open-pollinated plants will produce new generations of those plants; however, because breeding is uncontrolled and the pollen (male parent) source is unknown, open pollination may result in plants that vary widely in genetic traits. Open pollination may increase biodiversity.

Some plants (such as many crops) are primarily self pollenated and also breed true, so that even under open pollination conditions the next generation will be (almost) the same. Even among true breeding organisms, some variation due to genetic recombination or to mutation can produce a few "off types".

Hybrid Seeds

F1 hybrid is a term used in genetics and selective breeding. F1 stands for Filial 1, the first filial generation seeds/plants or animal offspring resulting from a cross mating of distinctly different parental types. The term is sometimes written with a subscript, as F₁ hybrid. The offspring of distinctly different parental types produce a new, uniform variety with specific characteristics from either or both parents. In fish breeding, those parents frequently are two closely related fish species, while in plant and animal genetics those parents usually are two inbred lines. Mules are F1 hybrids between horse and donkey. Today, certain domestic hybrid breeds, such as the Savannah cat, are classified by their filial generation number.

Seed companies produce a huge range of seeds from highly developed F1 hybrids to open pollinated wild species. Many gardeners like to stick to old familiar varieties but each year seed companies produce new varieties for gardeners to try. They have extensive research facilities to produce plants with better genetic materials that result in improved uniformity and gardening appeal. These improved qualities might include disease resistance, higher yields, dwarf habit and vibrant or new colors. These improvements are often closely guarded to protect them from being utilized by other producers, thus plant cultivars are often sold under their own names and by international laws protected from being grown for seed production by others. Along with the growth in the allotment movement, and the increasing popularity of gardening, there have emerged many small independent seed companies. Many of these are active in seed conservation and encouraging diversity. They often offer organic seeds and open pollinated varieties of seeds as opposed to hybrids. Many of these varieties are heirloom seed varieties. The use of old varieties will continue to maintain diversity in the horticultural gene pool. There is a good case for amateur gardeners to use older (heirloom) varieties as the modern organic seed types are often the same as those grown by commercial producers, and so characteristics which are useful to them (e.g. vegetables ripening at the same time) may be unsuited to home growing.

NOTE: This web site is currently under construction and will be through 2012 with updates, changes, announcements, developments and additions. Any and all content is derived from research, readings, conversations and other sources. Any inaccuracies, misrepresentations or misstatements will be addressed without haste.

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