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  • From: Road's End Farm <organic87 AT frontiernet.net>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Gurney's Cold Set Open Pollinated Tomato
  • Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 17:05:07 -0400

Not all soy is GMO; though it may take some looking to find non-GMO seed.

If "open pollinated" is part of the name, then either it's open pollinated (not a hybrid) or the seller isn't worth dealing with. Open pollinated seed can be GMO, just as not all hybrid seed is GMO (most of it isn't, in vegetables).

I would ask Gurney's whether it's GMO; and, if they say not, ask if they'll send you, with the seed, a note saying "to the best of our knowledge the seed we have sold you is not genetically engineered". Certified organic growers are required to get a statement like that with all seed that we buy, if there's no statement to that effect already printed in the seed catalogue; so they shouldn't be astonished at the request. If you can't get the statement, and if this matters to you, then don't buy/plant the seed.

The phrase "to the best of our knowledge" is generally included as nobody's willing to guarantee absolutely no chance of accidental contamination. That shouldn't be likely in tomatoes, but has happened in corn.

(I just looked up Gurney's on Garden Web and they've got very mixed ratings. I've never ordered from them myself, so can't give an opinion.)

-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale


On Apr 1, 2008, at 3:40 PM, lucy Owsley wrote:

all soy is OP  and GMO. Doesn't seem to matter what kind of seed you start with when gene splicing. But if you buy GMO's in the US you will sign a contract saying you will not save seed so if no contract probably not a GMO seed.
On Apr 1, 2008, at 3:30 PM, Sean Albiston wrote:

By definition a open pollinated variety is not a hybrid. Couldn't imagine
OP seeds being GM either.

sean

Does anyone know if Gurney's Cold Set Open Pollinated Tomato is a hybrid or
GM seed ?





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