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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Dec 26, 2011 18:23:17 GMT -5
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Post by castanea on Dec 26, 2011 18:47:33 GMT -5
We probably have more savers and breeders here than just about any online amateur site you will find.
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Post by steev on Dec 27, 2011 1:32:33 GMT -5
The fact that the number of total votes equals the number of voters seems suspiciously straightforward.
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Dec 27, 2011 2:03:08 GMT -5
I put "Save seeds from time to time" since I'm not sure I'd consider myself an experienced seed saver or breeder yet, but the "Save seeds regularly. Not much breeding" doesn't exactly apply either since i am now knee deep into the breeding stuff.
It looks like you have to be logged in to vote. I suspect there are some who might stumble upon this forum or visit regularly who don't have an account.
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Post by potter on Dec 27, 2011 5:34:51 GMT -5
Oh no...although I'm not breeding much veg..well, hardly at all..but even that little bit is down to interesting things that I've read in here. Now I'm increasingly thinking about 'these things' and had a go with few 'easy' veg to start with. I'm sure that all this chatting here about breeding is getting folk to do more and more their 'own' seeds...and what could be better than that.. ;D
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Post by johno on Dec 27, 2011 10:47:20 GMT -5
I clicked "Save seeds regularly. Not much breeding." but "not much" is subjective. You absolutely have the right audience here.
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Post by davida on Dec 27, 2011 12:35:12 GMT -5
Joseph,
I think you may need another category, "Trying to learn enough to begin plant breeding". In Carol's plant breeding book on page 43, "To a large extent, learning to find germplasm and evaluate it properly marks the difference between the beginning gardener and the sophisticated one". It was with this frame of mind that I began social networking and joined HG. Your posts have given insights on the evaluation process and have been very helpful.
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Post by synergy on Dec 27, 2011 12:56:22 GMT -5
I am one of the 'saves seeds a few times' but I am a struggling newbie who isn't even successful at growing anything of much yet. I still try to save some seeds and aim to be fabulous in time...
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Post by castanea on Dec 28, 2011 1:22:07 GMT -5
A large part of it for beginners is just finding out what you enjoy growing and indeed what you can grow. There aren't too many okra growers along the Pacific coast. But after you find out what you like, and what will grow for you, sometimes you just get hooked on something and get serious about working with it. I wish I could work with breeding date palms, but unfortunately only a small portion of the US is ideal for growing date palms. Still, I collect seeds of every variety of date palm I can find, and since they are potentially viable for hundreds of years, some day someone may put my seeds to good use.
I've always had kind of tomato growers envy. While I live in a great area for growing tomatoes, and certainly enjoy growing some of the tastier ones, growing tomatoes just doesn't interest me much compared to other things. Yet there are probably more tomato growers online than any other type of gardener.
I absolutely love watermelons and wish more people felt about growing watermelons the way they do about growing tomatoes.
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Post by flowerpower on Dec 28, 2011 7:42:43 GMT -5
The recent discussions on the group got me to thinking about who reads Homegrown Goodness. So I put together a poll to help me be more aware of who's reading.... perhaps I've been writing to the wrong audience. I am, in no way, a plant breeder. But I do read the threads on it. Even though I may not comprehend it all, I have learned alot.
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Post by Walk on Dec 28, 2011 10:10:44 GMT -5
I clicked "save seeds regularly - not much breeding" although I would say that all my seed saving is very intentional selection based. Maybe that should be a separate category?
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Post by bunkie on Dec 28, 2011 11:17:35 GMT -5
I clicked "save seeds regularly - not much breeding" although I would say that all my seed saving is very intentional selection based. Maybe that should be a separate category? same here walk. interesting poll joseph.
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Post by littleminnie on Dec 28, 2011 18:56:12 GMT -5
Since I haven't done hand pollinating due to time constraints and therefore save few solanaceaes and cucurbits, I don't consider myself an advanced seed saver yet. I started years ago with sweet peas and then other annuals. I am just starting with some low scale breeding in the last year.
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Post by DarJones on Dec 28, 2011 23:20:02 GMT -5
I've gardened since I was 3 years old helping my mother plant onions. I've been an active seed saver (I'm not talking about Seed Savers Exchange though) since 1985. I've been producing seed and shipping them to Sandhill Preservation for about 7 years now. I'm a reasonably experienced plant breeder though I confess that growing for seed takes so much time that I don't have much left to devote to breeding work. I also run a business selling tomato plants.
Joseph, you didn't put in a check box for "commercial plant grower" and you forgot to include "commercial seed producer" and somewhere along in there you needed to include "geneticist".
I still consider myself to be a rank amateur. I spoke with a serious plant breeder and seed producer a few days ago. He blew me away in 5 minutes or less.
DarJones
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Post by mickey on Dec 29, 2011 17:14:20 GMT -5
I clicked on( Saved seeds a few times.) but as I think about it I have saved seeds of one kind or another ever since I joined this site.
PS, I read most new posts almost every day.
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