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Post by galina on Oct 13, 2023 5:00:14 GMT -5
I also had c maxima damage, one where all the seeds were eaten and 3 plants that were severed neatly at ground level. We do get cats, but hoards of voles survive the cats and do damage. Many beans were also cut at ground level. So frustrating. I got a solar mole and vole deterrent which does not work. Bamboo sticks into the newest hill with a rattling plastic bottle inverted over the top may work a little. But this year was bad. It took them 2 years to discover my new garden here, but now they are here too. Commiseration and sorry, I don't have a really good solution either. I collapse their runs by throwing copious amounts of water into them, but when the roots are severed completely, there is little that can be done.
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Post by galina on Nov 23, 2022 12:54:04 GMT -5
karilyse Please do tell us how this continued, a mutation perhaps? Very interesting. Yes I have come across the same photo problem, but you description was very clear so no picture needed. Just curious what happened then.
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Post by galina on Nov 23, 2022 12:47:41 GMT -5
Yes I am. After our move there is new soil, new climate and I am struggling to get them to adjust to their new homes. At least I haven't killed them yet and even got a few to go from my dwindling seed stock. But keeping them alive is a long way from being able to breed. We will get there. Now I just need a few flowering again for proper adaptation to this new location. At the moment they multiply very sparingly and don't flower at all.
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Post by galina on Nov 7, 2021 14:30:06 GMT -5
These seeds look good.
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Post by galina on Oct 20, 2019 15:00:33 GMT -5
Just as Andrew said! Welcome to new people on the forum. We enjoy hearing what you are up to, what you are growing, what does well and what is a challenge. If you tell us where you garden, that can help comment appropriately. Glad you found us.
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Post by galina on Oct 16, 2019 10:43:17 GMT -5
I did not do much better. The variegated Daubentons did produce seeds, which germinated, very pale yellow and the seedlings died off. The Portuguese did flower and produce seeds which grew ok. So I am hoping that some of the Variegated Daubenton seeds have crossed with other Brassica and are more fertile.
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Post by galina on Jul 6, 2019 3:07:13 GMT -5
@ philagardener, Thank you!
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Post by galina on Jun 23, 2019 3:27:29 GMT -5
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Post by galina on Jun 23, 2019 3:08:30 GMT -5
Welcome Marek. I have often wondered about fibre. My ppvv x ppvv crosses show different fibre too. A little bit of fibre is not a bad thing because some of my pods are looking very bent and twisted. With a little more fibre they are straighter and prettier. I love very large mangetout peas (snow peas) and they definitely look better straighter.
Going from no fibre to fibre is one of those mutations that can just happen. A throwback to a more original state. And I am convinced that when we cross two varieties deliberately, it is a stimulus also for mutation. I have seen a natural mutation from no fibre to partially fibrous in Schweizer Riesen (with mature pods 'ballooning'). I also believe that there are many effects which are not yet discovered, which come to the fore if we cross two pea varieties or when we grow a pea variety in a new location with very different climate.
Once of the recurring themes I get when crossing a yellow pea with a purple pea is a very pale green variant. And I also get the same darkening effect on mature pods, especially mangetout pods. My red shelling pods stay properly red. Why this should be, I do not know.
I was really surprised that you get only so few red or partially red ones from a huge F2 population. Either I have been lucky but my ratio on a much smaller (and not statistically significant!) F2 population is probably one in four. I find it very easy to get red, but very difficult to get a fully covering red.
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Post by galina on May 4, 2019 18:20:44 GMT -5
Welcome back Rebsie. Don't be a stranger on here, good to hear from you. I also have a solid red shelling pea but pretty much tearing my hair out with the mangetouts and snaps, which are never such a good colour. I have no explanation why it works in shelling peas and not in mangetouts, but there is the equivalent that all purple shelling peas I know are a good solid purple, whereas Shiraz mangetout and Sugar Magnolia snap actually have a lot of green with the purple in many of their pods. Just saving seeds needs careful selection for good purples. When crossed with a yellow mangetout they produce nice pods that are mostly red, not the full red of the shelling pea. We will get there I am sure.
Hope you have also kept pretty Luna Trick.
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Post by galina on Apr 14, 2019 1:13:42 GMT -5
Great resource enjoyed browsing their catalogue. Not that any plant material could be shipped here.
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Post by galina on Apr 13, 2019 11:09:56 GMT -5
d apples remain. My skills are surely not on the genetics and breeding. Sorry, that's just not my expertise. All I could do, is grow them and then select the plants with stable red color without any stripes, green peas, yellow peas, purple peas. As for that, feel free to let me be of this minor assistance. We all pretty much started with Golden Sweet and then made crosses with that one, as it is the only widely available yellow variety. In theory it is very simple, cross a stable yellow with a purple pea, and one in sixteen should be red in the F2 generation. If the purple is a mangetout or snow pea, then you end up with an edible podded new pea too, as both parents are edible podded. To make a cross is not too difficult with a little dexterity and perhaps a magnifying glass. Have a look at this video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq7-JGRmFBc
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Post by galina on Apr 13, 2019 10:58:28 GMT -5
Galina, PM me your address and remind me to send you some of my red snap peas later this summer too. I'm still not perfectly happy with them either, but technically they are some sort of snap pea and seem to be stable for color. They will at least be good for breeding stock. Honestly though I want to breed them into a good snow pea rather than the odd small shaped snap it is now. So that is my plan eventually. I need to try crossing it to Midnight Snow, my best purple snow pea. Thank you for this offer, I will post my address later in the year. You should have it already as I sent you some seeds a couple of years ago. I have crossed my yellow snap with Sugar Magnolia and had a big yellow snap in the F2 generation. Very happy until the very mature pods started cracking open. They did not actually dehisc, but I did not like the cracking tendency. It could have been the weather last year, we will know if it happens again this year. But to increase size, SM is a good one. It might work with Spring Blush too. My yellow snap was already bigger than Opal Creek, but it was as big as SM size last year in the F2. Maybe SM could be a good cross with your small red one too. You need to be lucky and persistent with the recessives though to get a larger red snap.
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Post by galina on Apr 3, 2019 0:47:30 GMT -5
Still not have a red podded that I am happy with. Shelling pea, no problem, but with mangetout or snow peas the red is not solid Too bad. I had parked that project for a year, but will see what this year brings. Still hoping that it might improve in later generations, like Templeton suggested.
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Post by galina on Mar 26, 2019 5:40:58 GMT -5
You are telling me Had to break off some plants off which were holding on to others with their hypertendrils even at 4 inches high, in order to transplant them outside. Also plant height. Easily spotted during seedling stage in a mixed F2 population for example.
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