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Post by imgrimmer on Sept 19, 2022 5:29:02 GMT -5
80 days from germination until maturity. One of ferdzy`s watermelons
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Post by imgrimmer on Sept 19, 2022 5:26:15 GMT -5
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Post by imgrimmer on May 19, 2022 9:16:26 GMT -5
Last year I harvested strawberry seeds from cultivated varieties and sowed them. The seedlings look different from the parents, they are more branched and make many layers. I am curious to see what the fruits are like. Cross-pollination with wild European strawberries is possible, I even hope that this has happened. But I don't know if the two species are compatible. It turns out that these seedlings are Duchesnea indica. Honestly, I have no idea where they come from.... But there is no doubt. I have to start from the beginning again....
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Post by imgrimmer on May 3, 2022 13:59:00 GMT -5
citron melon x watermelon hybrids in 2020 in 2021
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Post by imgrimmer on May 3, 2022 13:48:30 GMT -5
I have some seeds from my landrace trials from last year. I hope they will do well this season. I have the highest hopes for a citron melon x watermelon hybrid that I got from Andrew Barney a few years ago. I still have 1 fruit in my storage room. Completely intact it has been sitting for half a year now. A true long keeper.... I hope to cross it with my watermelon grex.
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Post by imgrimmer on Jan 17, 2022 3:38:54 GMT -5
I was simply pointing out that large parts of living in a post-apocalyptic society have to do not only with producing your own resources, but in being able to defend those resources. And that REALLY being prepared means not just being prepared to weather a period of instability, but in being able to handle things if it NEVER destabilizes. Real long term survival only works if you can get a pretty much totally closed economy, where you don't need ANY inputs of ANYTHING to keep functioning indefinitely. If there is any item that you need someone outside your group to produce, that is a weak link. This condition has never existed for a long time in human history. Even in prehistoric times, people were always in exchange and contact with sometimes distant regions. Even early humans were in constant exchange. Of course, much less than today, but humans were never isolated and the populations that did experience this collapsed in the long term. Periods of isolation and complete autarky are short-lived phenomena that did not last longer than a generation. Archaeologically, it is easy to trace how cultural phenomena moved from culture to culture and changed in the process, how goods were exchanged, ideas were spread. Even the Polynesians on the remote islands were not permanently isolated. a completely closed economy, where you don't need any input from outside, is not a long-term strategy and will lead to decline over time, whether in population genetic terms or in economic terms. Self-sufficiency is, in my view, a survival strategy but not a sustainable long-term state.
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Post by imgrimmer on Nov 10, 2021 13:53:06 GMT -5
Damaun, Medzi and Tramunt supersweets are se, se+ or...?
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Post by imgrimmer on Jul 25, 2021 16:24:42 GMT -5
Don't you have Late Blight in your garden yet? I have already lost many plants.
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Post by imgrimmer on Jul 24, 2021 1:58:15 GMT -5
The flower on the first picture looks good.
In general many tomatoes form crumpled oversized flowers, like those flowers on beef tomatoes. If you collect seeds from these flowers (and not from the perfect shaped flowers), you increase the chance of finding naturally occurring outcrosses. I started my landrace with only these flower types, thinking I was selecting for flesh types, but instead it turned out that my seedling tomatoes produced many different fruit types and colours over time. I even found Late Blight-tolerant plants this way. Of course, you need many mixed plantings with different tomato varieties. It is also good to use seeds from hobby growers, from seed fairs or from your neighbours. Commercial varieties are often too uniform, form almost only closed flowers and have little genetic diversity. However, it is also possible to use them.
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Post by imgrimmer on Jun 13, 2021 15:49:43 GMT -5
oh yes tulips take a long time
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Post by imgrimmer on Jun 10, 2021 7:42:24 GMT -5
Today I found one of my Dahlia seedlings resprouting after a severe cold winter with -11°C. That is pretty surprising. I am eager to see the flower. This one is one of my many seedlings I spread everywhere to find interesting types. Especially in hope for edible tubers. But there is not much hope as all previous generations tasted bland. I intend to cross it wit a true coccina from Mexico.
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Post by imgrimmer on May 22, 2021 2:30:31 GMT -5
Last year I harvested strawberry seeds from cultivated varieties and sowed them. The seedlings look different from the parents, they are more branched and make many layers. I am curious to see what the fruits are like. Cross-pollination with wild European strawberries is possible, I even hope that this has happened. But I don't know if the two species are compatible.
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Post by imgrimmer on Feb 18, 2021 13:04:04 GMT -5
Last years direct seeded tomatoes. These are from seeds of an volunteer from previous years. They experienced frost in the beginning. I sow in march 20. Many different fruit shapes and different in late blight tolerance.
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Post by imgrimmer on Dec 23, 2020 10:43:30 GMT -5
Sounds like landrace breeding. Like e.g. Joseph Lofthouse is doing it.
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Post by imgrimmer on Dec 21, 2020 2:51:21 GMT -5
There were also problems with slugs. These were the only plants that managed to germinate out of hundreds. I wondered what happened to all the seed, but now I suspect it was eaten by slugs.
the pictures were taken in summer, around 25 August. these plants were late. after germination they didn't grow any further for a long time and were only 5cm tall, then after transplanting I think it was in June they started to grow.
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