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Cracklin Charlie

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4. The seed you are planting
Sun Mar 31, 2013, 12:07 AM
Mar 2013

Carries the genetic material for the carrot that that seed will grow into.

If the seed that you plant into the ground is sold as orange carrot; the carrot that grows from that seed will be orange.

Cross pollination affects the next generation, your seed's children, so to speak. If the orange carrot plants that grow from your seed are allowed to flower, and the flowers from your orange carrot are pollinated by pollen from a yellow carrot plant flower, the seeds produced from that union may grow to produce carrots that are orange, or yellow, or something in between.

Your carrot plants can have sex right out in your yard, and you wouldn't even know it.

Edit to add: fresh carrots are yummy!

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