ethin
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Plant Breeder and Graphic Designer in Cache Valley Utah, USDA Zone 4b
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Post by ethin on Aug 19, 2014 20:31:30 GMT -5
I'm not as sure it was cats anymore, the damage looks like cats but I found what looks like a coon print in the mud this morning.
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ethin
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Plant Breeder and Graphic Designer in Cache Valley Utah, USDA Zone 4b
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Post by ethin on Aug 18, 2014 22:00:28 GMT -5
The cats finally figured out that the corn was ready so I dusted it with cayenne, shouldn't have any more problems now.
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ethin
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Plant Breeder and Graphic Designer in Cache Valley Utah, USDA Zone 4b
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Post by ethin on Aug 8, 2014 21:59:42 GMT -5
I was wondering if it had something to do with how well the flower was pollinated. In my experience with other plants better pollination generally leads to more seeds. If that is the case here then two seeds could be used as a way to screen for potential crosses.
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ethin
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Plant Breeder and Graphic Designer in Cache Valley Utah, USDA Zone 4b
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Post by ethin on Aug 7, 2014 18:22:33 GMT -5
I was wondering what determines the number of seeds per pod. Most of the pods I've shelled only have one seed but some have two.
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ethin
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Plant Breeder and Graphic Designer in Cache Valley Utah, USDA Zone 4b
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Post by ethin on Aug 3, 2014 13:17:22 GMT -5
Thank you both. Five foot Four O'Clocks, that's awesome!
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ethin
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Plant Breeder and Graphic Designer in Cache Valley Utah, USDA Zone 4b
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Post by ethin on Aug 1, 2014 13:10:28 GMT -5
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ethin
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Plant Breeder and Graphic Designer in Cache Valley Utah, USDA Zone 4b
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Post by ethin on Aug 1, 2014 13:00:23 GMT -5
After doing some research I think I figured out what the four things in my last post are. Number 4 is definitely oats, thank you steev, and judging from pics on google I think they might be wild oats. Number 1 is most likely barley, 2 is definitely wheat, and I think 3 is more rye judging by the seeds.
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ethin
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Plant Breeder and Graphic Designer in Cache Valley Utah, USDA Zone 4b
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Post by ethin on Jul 29, 2014 15:18:25 GMT -5
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ethin
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Plant Breeder and Graphic Designer in Cache Valley Utah, USDA Zone 4b
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Post by ethin on Jul 27, 2014 22:30:38 GMT -5
I went for a bike ride along some back roads yesterday and collected what I thought might be grains along the way. Does this stuff look familiar to anyone here? Ha! I'm not the only one collecting Cache Valley rye. Check out the road from Hyrum to Mt Sterling sometime if you want to see an abundance of it. Mt Sterling is where I was planing on going next. The stuff in the pics was collected along the back road to Paradise from Hyrum, I was mainly looking for stuff that didn't look like it was irrigated. I also found three populations in hyrum on the hills overlooking Hyrum reservoir.
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ethin
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Plant Breeder and Graphic Designer in Cache Valley Utah, USDA Zone 4b
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Post by ethin on Jul 27, 2014 19:45:58 GMT -5
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ethin
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Plant Breeder and Graphic Designer in Cache Valley Utah, USDA Zone 4b
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Post by ethin on Jul 10, 2014 23:28:08 GMT -5
Thanks flowerweaver.
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ethin
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Plant Breeder and Graphic Designer in Cache Valley Utah, USDA Zone 4b
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Post by ethin on Jul 10, 2014 15:11:44 GMT -5
Pics. First row (starting on the left): onions from small bulb, strawberries. Second: lentils. Third: watermelon with flowers (stock and zinnias), carrots, Lima beans, dill, and sweet peppers planted between the hills. Fourth: bunching onions, geraniums, gold beets, chickpeas, and volunteer potatoes (from tuber) spread throughout the row. lentil close up. watermelon close up. My foot is about a foot long. My dad's favorite variety of late corn, NK199, he was real happy to find that the local seed store had it again after a decade or so of not having it. I had never heard of it. First(on the left): pumpkin type squash. Second: melons(crenshaw, cantaloupe, honeydew). Third: more squash(spaghetti, butternut, banana, hubbard, cinderella pumpkin) All row have various kinds of flowers in between the hills. Tree mallow. cumbers and snapdragons. mixed beans tomatoes descended from a plant that was labeled Moscow but was nothing like the internet description for that variety. lettuce, chard, mix of red radishes, red beets, seed grown onions. tomato flowers Oats, carrots, parsnips. Finished the first wave of shelling peas last week, typically that would be the end of them but this year we planted the peas under the edge of some fruit trees that are at the end of our garden, the afternoon shade has kept them from dieing back in the heat and they may yet produce more peas. The peas in my brothers garden planted in full sun. My peas (and some marigolds acting like weeds)
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ethin
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Plant Breeder and Graphic Designer in Cache Valley Utah, USDA Zone 4b
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Post by ethin on Jul 10, 2014 13:57:12 GMT -5
First wave of strawberries ended last week, they'll start blossoming again in a few weeks. Half way through the raspberries and blueberries. The blackberries will be ready in a few weeks. Mulberries are on.
I have no clue when the gooseberries will be ready, we have had bushes as long as I can remember and have never harvested them, always too buggy.
We have an early apple variety, so we will be busy with them in a few weeks. No apricots to speak of this year and very few peaches. We'll have some plums but not many, in the middle of transitioning from old drying trees to new younger ones.
We have four pear tree but the three younger one will need to be removed. They where grown from seeds from the older tree, this was the first year they bloomed but the fruit is the size of a marble. I have been collecting seeds from store bought pears for a few years now, I'm trying to start some of them, we'll see if they do better.
We also have a small pie cheery tree, this was the second year it has produced. Most of the family doesn't like them, too tart or something. I think they taste great and I don't like cherries.
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ethin
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Plant Breeder and Graphic Designer in Cache Valley Utah, USDA Zone 4b
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Post by ethin on Jun 25, 2014 2:07:23 GMT -5
Saw some mason bees working the lentils today, and some tiny thing the size of a flying ant in the chickpeas.
Waiting for the carrot flowers to open so I can see if they're any good.
Speaking of carrots, I was going though a bag of old seeds and found a mailing envelope with carrot written on it. Opened it up and sure enough there where two or three carrot seed heads in it, no one remembered collecting them, they could have been anywhere from three to ten years old. I planted them just so they would be laying around anymore, not expecting much, but they did come up. Now I'm curious to see if they are actually carrots since there is a chance they came from a plant that flowered it's first year.
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ethin
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Plant Breeder and Graphic Designer in Cache Valley Utah, USDA Zone 4b
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Post by ethin on Jun 25, 2014 1:22:09 GMT -5
Sounds great. But just so you know the plants with the mature seed are from my germination test I did in mid February. The few plants from direct sown seed are in blossom, but no pods yet.
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