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Post by billw on Jun 3, 2013 12:35:23 GMT -5
This is very interesting. I am doing some experiments using oryzalin against dihaploid potato cultures to try to produce allotetraploids - it is a pretty well known procedure that I am practicing in order to try with oca (an octaploid) later this year. At high dosages, I get dead plantlets, but at low dosages I get a great deal of chimerism. Based on my reading, I think colchicine may provide more predictable results.
Have you checked to see if you have gotten any uniformly tetraploid results?
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Post by billw on Jun 2, 2013 23:44:48 GMT -5
Well, that's a different take on the hunter/gatherer... Kill people, eat them, and gather their stuff!
A guess that is more of a history of edible humanity though.
I still find ducks and geese a challenge to butcher, so I don't think I will move up the food chain any time soon.
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Post by billw on Jun 1, 2013 22:44:21 GMT -5
Interesting. I am in sawmill country, with all the sawdust I can handle available within a mile in several directions. I may give this a try.
I am surprised that it's not a nitrogen problem. Any idea if he prepped the ground every year before adding the sawdust?
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Post by billw on Jun 1, 2013 22:15:06 GMT -5
Sorry to hear about the poor yield, Richard. It seems like you have to be even more prepared for disappointment with the Andean crops than most vegetables.
How high did the temperature get?
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Post by billw on Jun 1, 2013 22:02:36 GMT -5
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Post by billw on Jun 1, 2013 14:14:34 GMT -5
I don't know... I just came in from the garden and there were lots of insects out there, but no used batteries.
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Post by billw on May 31, 2013 11:00:56 GMT -5
Well, I tried some this morning and I am not dead yet.
They don't taste much like Chervil though - more like carrot greens.
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Post by billw on May 31, 2013 1:07:27 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure that this is a dumb question, but are the greens of turnip rooted chervil edible? I've got a bunch with vigorous tops and I thought I might cut some to use like regular chervil, but then it occurred to me that turnip rooted chervil isn't even in the same genus and that the greens might be very different, or even inedible.
I'll probably just try them anyway...
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Post by billw on May 23, 2013 19:51:19 GMT -5
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TPS
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Post by billw on May 19, 2013 18:33:33 GMT -5
Those are amazingly uniform. In my flats, I have plants that are two inches tall along side seeds that are just germinating - all from the same sowing.
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Post by billw on May 13, 2013 4:11:15 GMT -5
If you're interested in mailing quince seed out, later in the season, I can cover shipping and might have something worthwhile to barter. Sure thing. I'll have tons of it in November - just ping me around that time, as I'm liable to forget and toss the cores in the compost.
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Post by billw on May 9, 2013 17:26:25 GMT -5
Medlar is Breda Giant. (Is anything else available?)
Quinces are Aromatnaya and Van Deman.
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Post by billw on May 9, 2013 17:09:25 GMT -5
Our medlars are in their eighth year and gave us about two cups of fruit each last year. Interesting, but definitely not high yielding.
Our quinces are also in their eighth year and are the opposite story - about 16 feet tall and each gave us about 10 gallons of fruit last year. So far, we have used them for cooked fruit, pie, marmalade, membrillo, and pectin. I'm going to have to find more to do with them this year.
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Post by billw on May 9, 2013 13:20:03 GMT -5
That's the idea! At least with those, I'll know who the parents are. My seedlings will now spawn a generation of mongrel potatoes of unknown parentage. On the upside, that cuts down on the paperwork.
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Post by billw on May 9, 2013 2:20:03 GMT -5
Gah! I have several flats of potato plants growing from seed. I have been taking them out of the greenhouse to get direct sun during the day.
Today, the shelf collapsed and I came back to find three piles of soil with potato seedlings scattered about. Some broke, but I was able to save a surprising number of them.
But, now I have about 20 varieties all mixed together, with no hope of identifying them. There's one advantage of seed potatoes over potato seeds.
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