Open Pollinated

Open-pollinated plants are allowed to breed freely with other plants of the same variety from generation to generation, meaning they are not hybridized between two different parents, or propagated via controlled selection of specific parent plants. Recently hybridized plants can show a variety of characteristics and do not always give consistent results in following generations.

Open-Pollination is not a good or bad thing - hybridization by fertilizing one plant variety's female flower with pollen from a different variety's male flower yields an F1 hybrid, which are sometimes stunningly robust and desirable plants! It's just a description of a variety that should have stable genetics.