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Post by blueadzuki on Nov 27, 2019 19:06:49 GMT -5
Basically, since you are picking it pre-fertilization, ANY corn should work for baby corn. Ones like Chire's just have the advantage of 1. being bred to create multiple tillers with multiple cobs per tiller, so you can get 30 or so baby ears per plant as opposed to one or two and 2. possibly allowing one a little more time before the ears become too big and woody to harvest.
By extension I would imagine the "some" with the pop corns again has to do with size. You want miniature pop corns (like the mini ears you hang out for fall) as opposed to full size ones.
You probably also DON'T want a corn with a short stubby ear shape (like strawberry corn) as you will get a little nub of a baby ear or something with too much woody cob to be of use (I've had that happen).
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Post by blueadzuki on Jun 18, 2019 7:53:43 GMT -5
I do not have anything but the big, thorny, wild blackberries, wild raspberries, and a purple flowering raspberry that refuses to fruit. I think flowering raspberries are often self-incompatible. You might have better luck buying another from a different source and seeing if they'll pollinate each other. I'm trying to encourage some wild Wineberry bushes ( Rubus phoenicolasius) to spread, and I'm going to be collecting and stratifying seeds this winter. They're reputed to be invasive, but they've already spread all around me - and sometimes 'invasive' is just another word for 'successful'. They're fairly resistant to the girdling that plagues berries and young trees in my area, too - their very dense stickers seem to keep critters off them. Just check the laws before you do that. In some places (like here) it is ILLEGAL to propagate wineberries (since they are an invasive.)
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Post by blueadzuki on May 27, 2019 13:40:30 GMT -5
Most of those are dyed red.
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Post by blueadzuki on Apr 23, 2019 18:10:03 GMT -5
Trifoliate orange
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Post by blueadzuki on Mar 2, 2019 18:15:56 GMT -5
I have a NO honey for mead making, Black Cumin. Don't bother the results taste terrible.
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Post by blueadzuki on Feb 21, 2019 22:15:24 GMT -5
Sandhill has Seneca Blue Bear Dance Corn which is supposedly native. This site seems to have some NE natives link
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plums!
Jan 23, 2019 16:17:22 GMT -5
Post by blueadzuki on Jan 23, 2019 16:17:22 GMT -5
Ah, if only I was any good at grafting......
I THINK I have had American Plum. Back in my Cornell days, there was a tee by the side of Beebee lake on campus that was probably one (though the fact it died in my third year of black knot sort of speaks against that) Sort of a secret in plain sight (the horticulture TA, had never even noticed it until I pointed it out)
There was also what was probably a mirabelle on seneca street (now cut down, I check Google Maps) that must have been the toughest plum tree on earth since it stood between two bars and it's roots were continually saturated with the results of students overindulgences (I'm sure semi-digested food is good fertilizer but I don't think it stays so mixed with stomach acid.) Never tasted it, but a professor of mine did (he said I wasn't very good, but mirabelles often aren't great eating plums)
Well, at least you answered what I always wondered (why greengages and mirabelles and other European plums are so hard to find in the markets.)
Guess I'll continue my quest for the Ume?Mei plum with fruit that is edible raw (not a big fan of pickled plums and I don't drink).
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Post by blueadzuki on Jan 22, 2019 21:12:15 GMT -5
Glass gem is a very hard flint. If you mix that in, you might get a Flint/ dent mix (or, more accurately, a mixture of dent, hard flint, soft flint and everything in between) which might be too hard to grind with whatever mill you get. On the other hand, flint is better for polenta than dent is so it's you choice.
If you want the colors but want to keep it dent, try Earth Tones.
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plums!
Jan 22, 2019 21:07:06 GMT -5
Post by blueadzuki on Jan 22, 2019 21:07:06 GMT -5
Remember that, when it grows up, you can eat the fruit off the American Plum as well.
I have toyed with seedling plums, planting my annual supply of greengage and mirabelle stones (and the ume count as plums too, I suppose). So far, no sucess (by which I mean none not dug up and chowed down on by the squirrels.)
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Post by blueadzuki on Dec 31, 2018 9:32:20 GMT -5
That brings up an interesting question that occurred to me a few days ago. If the global temperature went up a bit, would the world production of rye (which, as I understand usually needs colder conditions to grow than wheat) begin to suffer? I understand there IS such a thing as heat tolerant rye (There seems to be an heirloom one in North Carolina) but they seem rare.
One also might wonder about the obscure wheat relatives of Eurasia (tiompheevi, vavilovii etc.)
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Post by blueadzuki on Dec 7, 2018 2:37:42 GMT -5
What I have seemed to notice, and what worries me, is not so much that it has gotten hotter or colder, but more unpredicatable, weather wise. Each year now, the temperature fluctuates so much that it really isn't safe to plant ANYTHING until the end of May or even the beginning to middle of June, and we can start getting cold snaps as early as the beginning of September. No enough to permanently get col, but certainly enough to kill tender plants off and cause blossom and fruit drops. And that sort of thing is what worries me. Finding crops that can take either extreme heat or extreme cold is doable (for example Ricter's seed zoo has a tomato that is capable of producing in the full tropics (when I understand the standard tomato finds it a little TOO hot) and I know of ones that can take extreme drought (Cheeseman's) and extreme sopping rain (Nagaraclang). But with things fluctuating so wildly I begin to wonder if we are going to get to the point where the only things that will survive will have to be able to take ANYTHING; freezing cold AND broiling heat, severe drought AND pouring rain. One can buffer a bit with landraces, but the idea of having to make you landrace cover everything from Arctic Tundra to Tropical Rainforest is a little scary. SOMETHING may grow that way, but there is only so much space any person has, and if the sucess rate of our crops becomes so uncertain that our annual return rate is 10% AT BEST, we are all in trouble. Is cheeseman's the wild tomato from the galapagos S. Cheesemanii? I thought it was salt tolerant. It's drought tolerant too? Thinking about doing a dry farming experiment and I think Andrew sent me some seeds for S. Cheesemanii Yes
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Post by blueadzuki on Dec 6, 2018 21:39:04 GMT -5
For a food-source adaptable to ANY weather conditions, you can't beat soylent green. Actually, Soylent Green is a LOUSY source of food. At the absolute thriftiest 1 "source" provides enough to meet the minimum food needs of 60 people for one day. That means you need to consume about 16.5% of the population annually, or in other words in about 6 years you have more or less run out of material. Now you know why while there are certainly cultures that practiced ritual cannibalism, there actually are none that used people as their exclusive source of food or even meat. You end up eating more than you population very, very quickly.
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Post by blueadzuki on Dec 6, 2018 19:29:21 GMT -5
What I have seemed to notice, and what worries me, is not so much that it has gotten hotter or colder, but more unpredicatable, weather wise.
Each year now, the temperature fluctuates so much that it really isn't safe to plant ANYTHING until the end of May or even the beginning to middle of June, and we can start getting cold snaps as early as the beginning of September. No enough to permanently get col, but certainly enough to kill tender plants off and cause blossom and fruit drops.
And that sort of thing is what worries me. Finding crops that can take either extreme heat or extreme cold is doable (for example Ricter's seed zoo has a tomato that is capable of producing in the full tropics (when I understand the standard tomato finds it a little TOO hot) and I know of ones that can take extreme drought (Cheeseman's) and extreme sopping rain (Nagaraclang). But with things fluctuating so wildly I begin to wonder if we are going to get to the point where the only things that will survive will have to be able to take ANYTHING; freezing cold AND broiling heat, severe drought AND pouring rain. One can buffer a bit with landraces, but the idea of having to make you landrace cover everything from Arctic Tundra to Tropical Rainforest is a little scary. SOMETHING may grow that way, but there is only so much space any person has, and if the sucess rate of our crops becomes so uncertain that our annual return rate is 10% AT BEST, we are all in trouble.
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Post by blueadzuki on Nov 16, 2018 19:06:54 GMT -5
Sort of the same story with my "Owl's Eye" cow peas; they came out of the "Healthy Bean Mix" sold by H-mart (an Asian/Korean supermarket chain near me) The giant chick peas (if I still have any) came from the same bags. Unfortunately the mix has changed since then and no longer contains either of these.
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Post by blueadzuki on Nov 16, 2018 8:30:41 GMT -5
MOST of what I grow comes from ethnic markets of one sort or another. I have never had much of a problem with them germinating.
I think your samples may just be old. The sulfites they put on some beans to kill insects may also do something.
For the record (since you said chick peas, the desi type (little brown ones the bag will be marker "Kala channa") are a bit better germinating than the conventional tan ones. Of course you have to weigh this against the fact they are a lot tougher beans at the other end and not good for most uses we would put chick peas to (they're supposed to be ground into besan, or chickpea flour)
Another problem you may run into is that, coming from more tropical countries, a lot of the beans will be the wrong day length to work here (This is particularly a problem with cow peas like the black eyed pea and the odder Asian legumes [don't even bother trying white lablab beans])
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