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Post by jbl4430 on Oct 20, 2012 5:50:17 GMT -5
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Post by richardw on Oct 20, 2012 13:37:23 GMT -5
Wow that big one is good size,so what happens now to those smaller ones in the bowl
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Post by jbl4430 on Oct 20, 2012 14:24:25 GMT -5
Wow that big one is good size,so what happens now to those smaller ones in the bowl Steamed and eat. The taste is OK. |
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Post by khoomeizhi on Oct 22, 2012 7:02:17 GMT -5
what was your original source for this...named variety? that central tuber is massive.
dug one variety so far of mine - nothing bigger than about two inches, but got lots and lots of little tubers. i've got three different cultivars from Oikos...
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Post by jbl4430 on Oct 22, 2012 8:06:58 GMT -5
what was your original source for this...named variety? that central tuber is massive. dug one variety so far of mine - nothing bigger than about two inches, but got lots and lots of little tubers. i've got three different cultivars from Oikos... I got Oikos one variety--desituberes . And 4 more variety from Germany,Korea South,Mountain Hurb and Acorus Restoration Native Plant Nursery(Ontario). Now all mixed,so exactly I don.t know which one is large tuber. Anyway all mixed planted is good for seed pods. Most have seed pod but only several have beens. Most pods have vacant---only small dots. |
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Post by Hristo on Oct 27, 2012 13:13:48 GMT -5
I have to check my plants for seeds, but I highly doubt there will be any. It's encouraging that you got ripe seeds in mid October at such latitude.
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Post by jbl4430 on Oct 28, 2012 5:37:59 GMT -5
I have to check my plants for seeds, but I highly doubt there will be any. It's encouraging that you got ripe seeds in mid October at such latitude. Hi hristo, My several variety apios all have seed pods even most vacant. Do you think affected each other? |
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Post by coppice on Oct 28, 2012 13:40:36 GMT -5
I'm still growing out tubers. So my guess, is a guess only. You are on the northern frontier for this plant. I expect it was temperature or pollination problems that gave you empty pods, Not cross breeding problems.
Keep me in mind if you ever have seed to sell.
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Post by Hristo on Oct 28, 2012 13:48:26 GMT -5
I have/had 4 unnamed varieties and I have seen pods only on 1 of them. The problem is they flower too late and even at the end of October there is no any ripe seeds. Obviously your variety is different.
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Post by jbl4430 on Oct 28, 2012 15:26:17 GMT -5
I'm still growing out tubers. So my guess, is a guess only. You are on the northern frontier for this plant. I expect it was temperature or pollination problems that gave you empty pods, Not cross breeding problems. Keep me in mind if you ever have seed to sell.    If you want seed pod apios tubers,I will send you tubers of 4 variety I don't need money ,only postage. This year seeds(posted photo) send to New Zealand last week. |
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Post by jbl4430 on Oct 28, 2012 15:37:35 GMT -5
I have/had 4 unnamed varieties and I have seen pods only on 1 of them.problem is they flower too late and even at the end of October there is no any ripe seeds. Obviously your variety is different. One of my question is Korean apios never have seed pods in Korea commercial huge farm, but here only several plants in one year have pods(not many compare others). Seed pod shape is 2 kinds. one is slim and long but vacant--- not Korean. So I think cross pollination?  |
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Post by khoomeizhi on Oct 28, 2012 20:18:32 GMT -5
i had flowering on some of my plants - two of the three varieties - but no pods. they all aborted. some were flowering as early as mid-august, though...last year, the same variety that was flowering earliest this year flowered and bore one pod with one seed in it...couldn't get it to germinate.
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Post by jbl4430 on Oct 29, 2012 6:21:17 GMT -5
i had flowering on some of my plants - two of the three varieties - but no pods. they all aborted. some were flowering as early as mid-august, though...last year, the same variety that was flowering earliest this year flowered and bore one pod with one seed in it...couldn't get it to germinate. One pod means have a more pods possibility. If growing well,more flower and more pods. You want more tubers, Every year replant. If more flower,just leave old plant. |
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Post by Hristo on Oct 31, 2012 8:03:58 GMT -5
One of my question is Korean apios never have seed pods in Korea commercial huge farm, but here only several plants in one year have pods(not many compare others). Seed pod shape is 2 kinds. one is slim and long but vacant--- not Korean. So I think cross pollination? Most probably the varieties grown in Korea are triploid, that is they are like the seedless watermelons - sterile. But even triploids can give a viable seed, very rarely, but it's possible. |
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Post by richardw on Nov 3, 2012 13:54:04 GMT -5
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