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Post by jocelyn on Jan 29, 2017 10:25:11 GMT -5
These are seedlings from open pollinated thornless blackberries. Any idea what they will grow to be, thorns, rasps, thornless? They are last spring's seedlings, wintering in the porch. screen shot
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Post by jocelyn on Jan 29, 2017 9:46:19 GMT -5
yes, and even better is having a friend offer you some seeds of something you've wanted Got offered blue hubbard today, I'll say yes, grin. I'm saving orange Hopi for her.
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Post by jocelyn on Jan 28, 2017 14:32:10 GMT -5
Waiting for spring. Got a tidy fit and the two of us cleaned a bunch of stuff out of the junk room upstairs, found 4 more 1 litre pots. Threw a bunch of stuff out. One chestnut on the table is enlongating its petioles, will send up a shoot soon. I'll graft it and dream of tasty nuts. Ate some nut butter off our trees. Ate a few pine nuts too, not good in nut butter ,flavour clash, but yummy on their own. Hens have gone clucky with the longer days. Two chicks from before Christmas are getting a bit of size on them.
Checked my scions in the fridge, none are mouldy:)
Walnuts are OK too, no mould there either..........will probably not graft those as the seedlings are pretty good on their own. What's everybody else up to?
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Post by jocelyn on Jan 15, 2017 18:57:05 GMT -5
Unfortunately, if I plant them outside in a pot, the mice and squirrels get them. Some squirrels stash them elswhere, and peaches and walnuts come up in the oddest places. The other day, we had a thaw, so I cleaned up inside the top step, yes IN the top step, grin. There is a frame filled with gravel and flat stones set in it...and acorns and walnuts and a peach pit. Squirrel was not pleased that he had to re hide his stash.
I've dug sprouting trees out of the walkway, the gravel next to the green bin, out of the raspberry patch...crows, bluejays and squirrels mostly. I went to water a little tree I had just planted, and when the water pooled, up floated a chicken's egg. Crow had hidden it in the loose soil when I had gone for the pail of water.
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Post by jocelyn on Jan 12, 2017 18:14:58 GMT -5
Yes, and the Gold Finches love to eat the seeds. Chicken hens love to hatch under them too.
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Post by jocelyn on Jan 10, 2017 16:56:21 GMT -5
Oh, yes definately. grin
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Post by jocelyn on Jan 10, 2017 10:37:11 GMT -5
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Post by jocelyn on Jan 9, 2017 10:49:38 GMT -5
WEather here is cold today with the wind, but warmer predicted for later in the week photo uploading
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Post by jocelyn on Jan 7, 2017 8:37:15 GMT -5
I have so many mice that I store peach pits in the fridge in a bag of damp soil, sometimes a plastic tub too. After about a hundred days I crack them out and press them into peat to see if they are ready yet. There is slightly better germination when cracked, but the big thing is a lot of them can be pressed into peat in a small space. Today, 24 hours, there are two sprouting, so I'll pot each as the root gets a quarter inch or so. Windowills fill up quick, real quick, so I only pot as they sprout. If you have less mice, direct planting seems a lot less trouble. Mind you, I love having something green this time of year, especially since we are under another winter storm warning. Mice....jumping mice, meadow voles, house mice, golden mice, probably lots more, but those little nibblers are very common here.
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Post by jocelyn on Jan 6, 2017 12:09:36 GMT -5
Peach kernals are sitting pressed into some damp peat on the kitchen table, waiting for green This time of year I am just croaking for a sign of spring, grin. It might be a bit early, so if nothing in 2 weeks, they'll have to go to the porch for a bit and come back in later to see if they are ready then. Those first green sprouts, ah. It's a bit north here for peaches, so I plant seeds and nature culls hard. Some do rather well, and a couple of winters tells the tale. These are stones from our own peaches, redhaven and harrow beauty open pollinated, mostly. The mice ate my reliance and harrow fair, darn mice. There don't seem to be quite as many mice right now as earlier this fall, not much snow so the foxes have had easy hunting, bless them.
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Post by jocelyn on Jan 6, 2017 6:04:48 GMT -5
Since I now have a second fruit coming along, I'll just shake it to set fruit. I don't want to load it up on fruit now, I just want a mature plant to set out in the spring so it will set fruit right after hardening off. Now, it's 4 or 5 weeks after setting out from a new seedling. This gives only one flush of tomatoes before frost...frost can come mid Sept here. It's about 8 weeks till I can set a tender potted plant in the porch, and June 10 till last frost.
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Post by jocelyn on Jan 5, 2017 8:33:33 GMT -5
Ah, OK, thanks. It has a tiny tomatoe now, I shook it. It's detirminant, Defiant, seems to be making new side shoots with flowers though. I just didn't realize it could live multiple years.
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Post by jocelyn on Jan 5, 2017 5:47:07 GMT -5
I took a slip off a tomatoe and it has rooted and is blooming. How long is it likley to grow, to live? Will it bear next spring, or is that too long away? Anybody know?
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Post by jocelyn on Dec 29, 2016 9:59:12 GMT -5
Thanks, Walt. When just learning, it's good to double check, grin.
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Post by jocelyn on Dec 26, 2016 9:14:02 GMT -5
soap box alert
PEI started seed libraries, and were opposed in interest of 'public safety'. Seeds might not be pure to species or even type, terrible 'risk' etc. Thankfully, cooler heads prevailed and public libraries now DO provide seed envelopes. Some folks however, say that if the chain of custody of a seed packet is not maintained, it's no longer pure, sigh.
I really can't see how a baggie of seeds from my squashes are less pure if I drop them off at a friend's house who is going to Town anyway. end soap box
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