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Post by 12540dumont on Apr 17, 2013 11:11:35 GMT -5
Many of you know that I have been maintaining this seed for several years. Each year, I plant out about 20 of the original seeds and see what I get. I save the seeds from random squashes. Well not really random, I save everything that tastes good. www.liseed.org/orned.htmlGo here and read about Ken's original breeding. Ken sent me a generous amount of these and his dumplings and his delicatas. By far, these are all my favorite squashes. If you went to the link, you'll see a photo of the white one, which is only hohum looking in my opinion. I love the colored ones! In his ramblings of 2010, Ken spoke about stabilizing certain color groups. This year was the first year we got a plain white one. We had it 2 nights ago for dinner. These were picked last September, so they have great holding power for such a diminutive squash. I stuffed them with cooked Lundberg's Wild Rice Blend (no plug, but if Lundberg's want to send me a case, I'll plug 'em every week), a pat of butter and some dried cherries. They were great. A very nice sweet dry flesh. Leo ate one for breakfast and said overnight it developed into a breakfast pastry.... I'll post some more on this later. The wind finally stopped and I have to get out there! Attachments:
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Post by raymondo on Apr 22, 2013 16:32:01 GMT -5
Great looking squashes Holly.
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Post by ferdzy on Apr 22, 2013 20:40:21 GMT -5
I have some seed for this kindly sent by, I think, hmm, well, was that you Holly? Or was it Oxbow? At any rate we had decided not to grow it this year due to lack of space but now I must reconsider. And if I reconsider, then what gets the boot instead? I assume these are pepos? Or are they? That complicates the picture too... I'm going to start some melon seedlings for a friend in a week or so. I wonder if they would like some squash too?
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Post by 12540dumont on Apr 23, 2013 10:58:22 GMT -5
Yes, Pepos and yes complications. I think slipping them into a neighbor's yard is an excellent idea. I'm going to slip a few into the landscape in the front garden....a squash here, a squash there!
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Post by 12540dumont on Apr 25, 2013 22:28:00 GMT -5
Okay, here's a tough breeding question for you squashy folks...
I have an Ornamental Edible/Little Greenseed cross. In the cross, the seeds have a very thin skin, but are not entirely naked. They also don't taste as good as the true Little Greenseed. The flesh is not much improved either, but man oh man I got scads of seeds.
So, shall I re-cross back to a Greenseed? Or shall I venture into better flesh? (No, I can't do both!)
What think you squashites?
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Post by raymondo on Apr 26, 2013 6:20:05 GMT -5
Are the seeds you have F1, or F2?
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Post by 12540dumont on Apr 26, 2013 19:32:10 GMT -5
F/1...Shall I mail you some?
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Post by ferdzy on Apr 26, 2013 20:53:19 GMT -5
I'm answering this not from the point of view of understanding the genetics, but from what strikes me as practical: Since you have achieved the scads of seeds, I would work on having scads of seeds that taste better... and leave improving the flesh to later, if at all.
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Post by steev on Apr 26, 2013 22:10:38 GMT -5
Keep a pig.
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Post by raymondo on Apr 27, 2013 4:48:11 GMT -5
F/1...Shall I mail you some? Thanks for the offer but I'll pass for now. I have too many things going on to be able to do anything useful with them. Since they're F1, you could grow a few just to produce plenty of F2 seeds. It's the F2 that will be interesting.
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Post by 12540dumont on Apr 27, 2013 12:00:28 GMT -5
Okay, I'll plant. More on this next fall.
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