HAGD said "I thot cloning was a way of organic, since I save the newer seeds yearly from the plant, hence no chemicals.
Let the peas and beans dry out either in the pod or remove pod, dry out in sun.
Then put in paper bag or envelope and into my coolest room in the basement, small room isn't drywalled or isolulated. Bag or paper towel will draw out any moisture the sun hasn't dryed out. All kinds of seeds can be preserved this way.
Don't use plastic bags, which can cre8 moisture.
I could be wrong about the organic part, so do you have a better suggestion for me.
Love to learn better ways
Thanks much "
What you're describing isn't cloning - it's seed saving. Seed saving is the practice of collecting the seeds from your best plants and saving them for the next season and planting them.
Peas, beans, tomatoes and peppers are all very easy to do because of their relatively closed flowers and the fact that they're perfect flowers (each flower has both male and female parts). Curbits and Pepitas are harder (cucumbers, pumpkins, all sorts of squash, etc) because they have both male and female flowers and are pollinated generally by insects and need certain distances between the different plants to avoid cross-pollination, unless you're hand-pollinating.
Seed production has the advantage of greater genetic diversity and adaptations for your particular environment. If you plant a garden in your yard year after year and save the seeds, you will select the plants that grow best in your particular micro-climate.
Cloning is something else entirely. It's taking a slip of the original plant and forcing it to root, and growing a new plant from that. Some plants do it readily - a spider plant is forever making clones of itself with the little baby plants it makes - but others you have to coax. All bananas we eat (Cavendish variety) are cloned - all trees are grown from pieces of the original plant. All Cavendish banana trees are genetically identical, and because of that are disadvantaged if they are hit with disease, for example. That's what happened to the previous strain of bananas, the Gros Michel. It was wiped out by disease more than 50 years ago and was replaced by the Cavendish. The Evans cherry is also a clone from a single source plant that grew in Alberta. All trees are genetically identical to the original plant that was discovered there.
Cloning has advantages though. If you get an one-off plant (such as the Evans cherry) that is a fantastic producer and who's seeds don't produce the same results (no cherry grown from it's seed can even come close to it's yield), it allows you to propogate that plant. It also lets you propogate plants that don't have seeds (such as the Cavendish banana).