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Post by blueadzuki on Jul 18, 2014 10:37:56 GMT -5
Globe wheat is now fully threshed. Results are again sort of mixed. Compared to the other pots, the globe DID make a reasonable increase of seed (I got maybe a gram or two), though no where near what one would expect of a plant being sold under the claim that "if you plant these 50 grains, and then re-plant what you get out of it, you'll have enough grain to feed a village" (of course that would presumably be under much better condtions than mine). However all of the grains are a lot smaller than what went in, and most are very, very shrunken. In truth, nearly all of them would fall well within the parameters that a farmer who grew wheat as a crop or a buyer who was assesing it would classify as "tombstones". In fact, they ALL may fall into that zone; some of the grain wasn't quite dry when I threshed it, so the few that look reasonably full may just have still had enough moisture inside of them to look plump. (with my tiny amounts I can thresh and winnow by hand if I have to, one grain at a time, so a grain not being completely dry doesn't neccacarily mean it can't be threshed out without being squished.)
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Post by steev on Jul 20, 2014 20:54:55 GMT -5
Walking through where my grains grew, I gleaned a handful of Tibetan Purple barley heads; they'd been too immature to harvest, before; after giving them the old "thumbnail thresh", I'd gained 3X the quantity of seed I started with, 3 plantings ago.
I already have the area for the next, larger patches ready to go whenever rain comes; it's weed-free and well-tilled, so comes rain, I'll spread MAP and till to mix while till-killing any sprouted weed seeds, then sow.
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Post by blueadzuki on Jul 20, 2014 21:51:09 GMT -5
I actually found one more grain hiding in pot #3. Obviously when I harvested one small head fell down and got lost in the mess on the bottom of the pot. And that pot may not be quite done. Since harvest, four or five wheat like grass sprouts have showed up in it. Since that pot was the most mixed of all the wheats, I suppose it is possible that it contained both spring and winter strains (or a strain that is very, very late starting and or heat loving) I'm leaving them as is (It's not like I'm doing anything else with that pot this season and who knows, I may get a few more heads in time. One of the feral patch I knew of used to make two crops a year (though whether there was a mixture of strains that had gotten mixed in, or the year I saw it the temperatures were conducive to the wheat sprouting growing setting it's seed and THAT seed being able to do the same in the same year, I do not know).
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