I don't know what the Ezeer Perennial wheat Tim was working on was, so I will ask him and get back to you. My guess is that "Ezeer" means "easier to thresh", which means that isn't it.
Let me cut to the chase:
It's not a particularly advanced line. The seeds are smallish and green, not particularly wheat-like. It is hard to thresh by hand though I suspect proper equipment would make short work of it.
Stability is relative, and according to Tom Wagner, perennial wheats in programs other than Tim's (which is on hiatus at the moment...) have had some propensity to revert. That is, some seedlings start looking like wheat again instead of like "xThinotriticum". No idea if that will happen to any of this line; I don't think it has been grown out enough generations to know for sure.
It's primary merit is longevity. When you cross Thinopyrum to Triticum, for some reason not all seedlings are perennial, and of the ones that are, they are barely so, often rather short-lived. FWIW, longevity was a side-effect of these breeding programs; they were originally after high protein and disease-resistance, and someone eventually wondered if perenniality would be useful.
These are seeds from plants that have survived significantly longer than most. I will ask Tim how old they are next time I talk to him, and will post the information.
This deal is a way to exchange funds that are needed elsewhere in consideration of seeds for a crop that was never common and is getting rarer. It might seem a tad pricey ($10 for 20 seeds) but that way whoever really really really wants it will get it, and it will help raise funds for someone who needs them (not me--I'm handling it because I can do so more easily than the beneficiary). Folks have been generous in supporting Tim's work in the past, so maybe they will now, though I do realize that there's a major recession going on.
If someone really, really, truly wants it and truly can't afford $10 then send a check in an amount that is affordable made out to "Tim Peters" to:
Tim Peters
c/o New World Seeds and Tubers, LLC
PO Box 16085
Seattle, WA 98116
Those who asked me for samples offline, yours are already in the mail.
Some folks may feel that "one in the hand is worth two in the bush". But for those who are waiting for more advanced lines, here's where we're at:
Much of Tim's seed, and some other material we got hold of while it was still available, is in Tom ("Tater Mater") Wagner's possession. Some of that has been planted in seed trays, and eventually it will end up in any of several fields we use for growing stuff out.
The rest is still in storage for lack of enough time to have found and sorted it last time Tim and I were both available to do so. I told Tim that Tom and I would make an effort to go down in November to look for more stuff to salvage. I don't think Tim's prize high-yielding Perennial xTriticales ever got found, though some very "beautiful" pale grains did get found. Tom was impressed.
Other stuff from the erstwhile Peter's Seed and Research will come online bit by bit, by and by. I'll list most of it under the new Peters Seed and Research site; the old one we have no access to. If you're on my distribution list, as you apparently are Bunkie, then you'll hear about it when it becomes available.
For those who aren't and want to be, go to our home page and sign up on the right sidebar:
newworldcrops.com/wp/The content is the blog posts, which is where I announce everything. I think they're just stub entries which is not what I thought I specified, but I'm still debugging the syndication. Anyhow there is nothing spammy on that list. Most of the posts I'm not even asking anyone to buy anything. We're pretty soft-sell.
Any more questions feel free to ask. At your service.