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Post by walt on Jan 28, 2019 13:11:55 GMT -5
Good progress.
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Post by walt on Jan 7, 2019 13:00:38 GMT -5
I have only gone with perennials, bushes, and trees in a chicken yard. A mulberry bush or tree will be loved by chickens in season.Wild perennial sunflowers, like H. maximilianii will drop lots of seeds in the fall. Chickens will find and eat some of those. A larger seeded species like H. salicifolius will have bigger seeds but less tptal weight. But the higher per cent eaten might make up for it. Chickens will eat sunflower leaves if other greens are not handy. But if the plants aren't protected, they might get eaten up before they get very big. If they get big, the leaves will be out of reach. I don't know the answers to your other questions, but where I live, the soil would have enough NPK to make a crop even without chicken droppings. After chickens have been there a few years, yields would be great. But your soil will likely be different. But I'd not add anything unless I was going for top yields first year, which I wouldn't be. Good luck.
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Post by walt on Jan 4, 2019 12:16:39 GMT -5
Or root cuttings. Some trees come back from root pieces very well.
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Post by walt on Jan 4, 2019 12:13:03 GMT -5
Sounds like a list of varieties I should cross with S. pimpinellifolium to get bigger hybrids. Bigger than cherry sized tomato hybrids, I mean, not bigger than those on your list.
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Post by walt on Dec 22, 2018 12:12:35 GMT -5
I lived for 10 wonderful years with only 2 solar panels for electricity. They gave about 100 watts in full sun. The winter solstice means much more to me since then.
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Post by walt on Dec 9, 2018 15:31:53 GMT -5
I'm going to have to try it. Thanks for the info.
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Post by walt on Dec 8, 2018 14:51:08 GMT -5
I wonder if ethylene would make fruit trees bloom younger. I'll bet it's been tried. I'll google it.
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Post by walt on Dec 8, 2018 14:45:38 GMT -5
It is my understanding that one gene controls heat vs. no heat, but many genes control heat level in the hot ones. I know of no way to tell hot from no hot without tasting the fruit. And while it is very simple to taste one fruit after another, looking for plants with no heat fruit, After tasting a hot one, you might need to wait a few hours before tasting the next one. And some fruit taste sweet at first, but heat builds up after swallowing or spitting. However, in an F2 population, 1/4 of them should be no heat, So you wouldn't have to taste a lot of them, unless you wanted to test for different flavores in the non-heat plants. And I think flavors woulf vary in the non-heat plants.
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Post by walt on Dec 6, 2018 12:40:06 GMT -5
I'm in zone 6 in Kansas. Usually my summers are hot and dry. I've found that seeds from Native Seeds/Search that say they are from desert do well here. Those from high elevation often don't do well here.
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Post by walt on Dec 1, 2018 15:45:53 GMT -5
I have read that secondary branches give only male flowers, and tertiary branches give both male and female flowers. Or was it primary and secondary? Anyway, one might remove tips of the vines and see if that gives females sooner. Don't know about stroking.
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Post by walt on Nov 29, 2018 12:04:18 GMT -5
No drought here. Nice change.
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Post by walt on Nov 28, 2018 12:51:49 GMT -5
A couple of my older brothers had pet raccoons. They were leash trained, and mostly yard trained. When you have a 300 acre farm, you can let pets be semi-wild. For our family, under our situation, raccoons were good pets. Most families have neither the space nor the temperment for raccoons. Possums are a whole different story. A pet rock is as exciting.
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Post by walt on Nov 28, 2018 12:43:22 GMT -5
Had 8 inches of snow a few days ago. I-70 was closed so couldn't go to work. It's rapidly melting now. 8 inches of snow would be no big deal, but it came with 40 mile an hour wind, which drifted it bad. And it rained some first, so there was ice under the snow. Still, I was suprized I-70 was closed. It is usually sprayed with salt water when snow is predicted. Then it is salted. And snow plows run 24-7 until it is clear. Yes, it is usually closed a few times every winter, but not for 8 inches. It is early for a snow storm. Maybe the highway patrol just wasn't ready yet.
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Post by walt on Nov 16, 2018 12:07:40 GMT -5
I've never had trouble with grocery store beans. But I was using Black Turtle beans, Pinto beans. Great northern beans. Things like that which weren't imported. The only other grocery store seeds I've besides beans are seeds from squash, tomato and peppers. All good except green peppers, which I think weren't ripe enough.. And citrus seeds. I've planted those when they were already germinated in the fruit.
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Post by walt on Nov 13, 2018 12:17:56 GMT -5
Srdjan I also planned to cross them with well adapted varieties, and from those crosses develop a well adapted open pollinated population. I still have enough seed to try again next year. Thanks for the offer. If I don't get some crosses next year, I might take your offer of F1 or F2 seeds. But I might not. My citrus breeding is taking more of my time than anything I've tried on my own. And it is a lot of fun. I'll have to see how much time and space I have for other projects. Walt
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