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Post by steev on Apr 15, 2013 11:06:47 GMT -5
Thanks; that's interesting.
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Post by steev on May 13, 2013 0:07:41 GMT -5
Harvested half the Tibetan Purple barley today, with clippers; next week. I expect the other half. I'm not talking a field, here. Next year, one hopes for a larger crop. It is a handsome grain, the heads large and dark, though beardy, but perhaps easily threshed.
The Bolero wheat and bulkbin rye are heading up well; the Einkorn is still sulking, sending up no heads.
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Post by 12540dumont on May 13, 2013 10:06:02 GMT -5
My "spring" and I use the term very loosely here, is going to seed.
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Post by steev on May 14, 2013 20:04:27 GMT -5
The Tarahumara sorghum, and its furrow-buddy, Blue-Speckled tepary, are growing apace; it's three weeks since they were sown/waterred. My kind of drought-crops.
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Post by mayz on May 15, 2013 6:26:20 GMT -5
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Post by raymondo on May 15, 2013 7:30:54 GMT -5
Moi, je suis au stade principal 9!
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on May 15, 2013 20:45:14 GMT -5
I planted 4 grains this growing season, and am letting one grow as a volunteer. They are: - Lofthouse Wheat: The wheat that was developed on my family's farm by my great great grandfather. It was the most widely planted wheat in northern Utah and southern Idaho before the green revolution.
- Feral Winter Wheat: Collected along about 40 miles of backcountry roads in the wheat farming areas of Cache County and Box Elder County Utah. Easy threashing.
- Enikorn Wheat: from Steev. An heirloom that has been grown for about 9000 years.
- Black Wheat. Hard to thresh, but easier than Enikorn.
- Feral rye as a volunteer. Collected at the same time as the feral wheat.
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Post by mayz on May 16, 2013 6:37:10 GMT -5
I have trialed several Triticum this season: T aestivum compactum cv "Rouge de la Gruyère": spring club wheat from Switzerland T aestivum cv "Tabasco" new cv short stalked and highly resistant T aestivum spelta unknow cv T monococcum cv "Engrain de Haute provence" T monococcum sinskajae www.victorvallega.com/triticum_monococcum.htm"Thirty-four F5 lines were selected and then mixed to form a bulked population released as MONOC BULK # 1 (PI 584654). The lines are all partially free-threshing (as is WIR 48993), and head about 4-5 days later than modern cvs. of durum wheat. Plants of the bulked population exhibit a greater vigour and tillering ability as well as a higher spike fertility than WIR 48993. Mean kernel weight is about 30 mg, greater than that of either parent and than most monococcum accessions. Plants are somewhat shorter than the majority of monococcum accessions. Microplot field experiments on highly fertile soils indicate that the maximum grain yield of MONOC BULK # 1 is about 3500 kg / ha. Grain texture is soft. Gluten is very weak (range of SDS sedimentation values = 13-25 mL), and this entails the need of crosses with germplasm accessions possessing a higher gluten strength."
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Post by oxbowfarm on May 16, 2013 8:26:08 GMT -5
We have 5 winter wheats growing right now. - Hungarian Landrace
- Lagodehkis Grdzeltavtava
- Red May ( aka Red Lammas)
- Masterpiece
- Arcadian
I also have a small plot of Conlon barley, hopefully for malting this year, plus tiny test plots of about 8 varieties each of naked oats and hulled barleys from GRIN. Oh, also a small plot of Blau emmer wheat from Holly that is starting to stretch.
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Post by steev on Jun 14, 2013 0:03:32 GMT -5
Harvested and threshed the Tibetan Purple barley and Bolero wheat; they both seem pretty doable; I look forward to larger plantings, next year (this Fall). The bulk-bin rye, Kamut, and Ethiopian Purple barley are maturing. The Einkorn is failing to thrive; I've been fooling around with this stuff for years; what does it want, some mastodon to be cooked with?
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Post by steev on Jun 16, 2013 22:08:27 GMT -5
Einkorn is finally stretching; Kamut, Ethiopian Purple barley, Black hulless barley, and bulk-bin rye are all maturing. Got all the rices planted out, today. Coming home, through the rice paddies (so hotly humid!) saw one all green with two white egrets flying across it; so gloriously Japanesque!
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Post by steev on Jun 26, 2013 23:09:30 GMT -5
Tuesday was rainy, welcome, but not workable, so I processed the Ethiopian Purple wheat and Polish wheat; neither as threshable as one could hope, but that's why I look forward to when I have critters/fowl to use what I don't.
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Post by oxbowfarm on Jun 27, 2013 5:37:46 GMT -5
I'm pretty impressed with the Blau emmer Holly sent me. It is just pollinating now, but it is quite tall and robust. Tallest heads are already around chin level. They are surprisingly and promisingly large heads too, with impressive awns. I always imagined emmer and einkorn to be tiny, grassy plants. Still have not grown einkorn yet. May have to try that this fall.
I had planted some small plots of some barleys and oats in the early hoophouses. This was a fairly stupid thing to do. They were very beautiful plants, but the combination of high fertility and the protected hoophouse environment made them stretch and completely lodge over. Big waste of interesting GRIN germplasm, though I may be able to salvage enough to replant for next year and give them a better shot.
I should have known better.
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Post by blueadzuki on Jun 27, 2013 13:50:24 GMT -5
Actually, most emmers have heads that are about the same size as modern wheats; they're just a little flatter since they have two rows of kernels as opposed to the 4-6 a lot of modern wheats do. Eikorn is smaller headed than wheat, but not by all that much maybe 1/2 to 3/4 the size (it looks a bit like very very slim wheat)
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Post by 12540dumont on Jun 27, 2013 14:21:41 GMT -5
Ox, don't forget to save some emmer for me. I sent it all to you
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