Recording and Resources – Cucurbitaceae Family Seed Saving Masterclass

The recording from the zoom session is now available

CORRECTION: There is an error at around the 30 minute and 51 minutes points in the recording where cucumber plants were incorrectly described as self-incompatible. Cucumbers plants are self-compatible and seed can be successfully saved from a single plant. Flowers are monoecious, meaning they cannot pollinate themselves (so individual flowers are self-incompatible). Pollen must be moved from a pollen producing flower type (male) to a fruiting flower type that will accept the pollen (female). This may occur across the same plant although seed saving from multiple plants is better practice to avoid excessive inbreeding.

Alison has also offered the following resources for other seed savers to use.