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Post by blueadzuki on May 9, 2014 19:44:49 GMT -5
I've got the Chusi slated for planting next year (all the space this year is being taken up by the wheat plantings.)
BTW for those who have grown it before, I had a question, is there any difference between the packets they send you? The Chusi description said the whole barley is more of a landrace than any specific selection of varieties, and that there were at least 15 morpholically different types in there, so I assumed that what you would get when your ordered that barley was seven packets each with a random sample from the field (or indeed just one packet seven times the size of the packets they send for the individual strains. But when I got mine, not only were the numbered, but there was a note that they had tripled the seed count in packets 1,3 and seven because the germination had dropped, which sounds like they are keeping the seven populations discrete. Since it is entierly possible I wont have room to plant all of all seven packets in the same year, it might help to know if it is better to take a few seeds from each one, or pick one or two to plant in their completeness and leave the others sealed till next year, or if it indeed makes any difference.
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Post by philagardener on May 9, 2014 19:57:46 GMT -5
I'd try to regenerate the ones with falling germination rates first, since they sound like they are slipping over the edge.
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