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RickCorey said:Cool!

Sometimes as I clean seeds, I'll separate the slightly smaller ones from the slightly larger ones. But I've never tested to see if they grow out slightly different plants.

Usually I pick out and throw away anything that looks different from the majority ... I'm not sure why, really.

When cleaning Alyssum seeds (Lobularia maritima ), I could barely distinguish the mature seeds from what I thought were immature seeds and chaff.

I found out why when I germination-tested the "chaff". It germinated at least as well as the "mature seeds". Oh, well. I had saved both, so it was OK.

Rick Saving for uniformity is how that reads That is like vegetables in rows , flower beds square and clean , or flowing in a pattern , Gardening is that , growing plants is what I do , sometimes for a few weeks something looks like a garden or flower bed ,
The seed , sometimes they hybridize on their own ,
Most of the time I look for clean , hard , full seeds , fully developed , as I am sure the seed savers here also do ,
Seeds like sunchokes and a few I hope often for more seeds , My native type sunflowers do not make a lot of full seeds ..