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Post by jocelyn on Dec 26, 2016 9:04:19 GMT -5
I'm trying to save chestnuts, american chestnuts from the eastern seaboard, specifically the more northern populations. Chestnuts are obligate outcrossers like cabbages. Would the same numbers apply? 2 grafts planted side by side, each seedling gets half from each parent, so half of genes left out. 2 seedlings get half and a half again, so 3/4 of available genes. 3 seedlings from that pair of trees captures 7/8, 4 captures 15/16....am I missing something, or is that mostly it?
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Post by jocelyn on Dec 25, 2016 10:07:16 GMT -5
Ah, good, merry Christmas then.
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Post by jocelyn on Dec 23, 2016 8:17:19 GMT -5
While not in the pear trees, there was a partridge in the lilac, could have been in the pears too, not in my line of sight from the house, grin. Merry Christmas to all. One french hen in the barn, and three roosters Mille Fleurs, so 'french' , right, grin.... Many mourning doves at the bird feeders, not turtle doves, but they'll do. 4 chicadees, Dee Dee, Dee Deee, see, calling birds Merry Christmas everybody.
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Post by jocelyn on Dec 19, 2016 7:10:20 GMT -5
We had lightening Friday too. Although they call it thunder snow, you can't hear the thunder if it's snowing heavy. Sure lights up the sky though, all diffused by the snow, sort of a glow, not a strike.
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Post by jocelyn on Dec 17, 2016 14:44:01 GMT -5
It's about minus 14 right now, minus 30 with the windchill yesterday. Predicted to hit plus 8 with rain tomorrow. Light snow right now, no wind, kinda nice out.
Our house is old too, about a hundred also. Need a new window down cellar, might be where the mice are coming in. Good insulation and siding though, roof good, needed that with yesterday's storm. Cold, windy, lots of snow. Dead calm today. Maritime weather, grin. Jocelyn
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Post by jocelyn on Dec 11, 2016 8:28:49 GMT -5
Check your PM's Prairiegardens
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Post by jocelyn on Dec 10, 2016 9:15:01 GMT -5
Prairiegardens, would you like me to save an amarosa tuber for you and mail it when things warm up? I also have open pollinated and pooled seed. This year's seeds are from open pollinated berries harvested from the ground, or by yelling at the hens to drop them, grin. Available parents; purplechief, amarosa, milva, yukon gold, pink fir apple, russian blue, some red seedlings, some mixed seedlings and some irish cobblers. All seedballs pooled. Last year's seed, all seedballs from red tubered plants, year before, pooled seed, which has produced some quite red tubers, plus many other colours. I have only small amounts, but am willing to share. Want, seed or a tuber?
Jocelyn
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Post by jocelyn on Dec 9, 2016 10:18:04 GMT -5
I get a lot of tubers that winter over too, and I'm in the Gulf of St Lawrence, zone 6a/5b, depending on the year. Sometimes I run into trouble where a seedling comes up in the food patch and I eat one I would rather have saved.........but expect it to be a tuber grown one that I planted for dinner. Sometimes, it's the only tuber, sigh. Still, that gardener's mantra, next year, next year, grin.
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Post by jocelyn on Dec 3, 2016 9:14:32 GMT -5
I have an early round white that is sitting in the living room, warmest room in the house, and shows no sign of growth. I have a blue volunteer that went down in late August, also no sprouting. Not enough data to make a generalization, so I googled dormancy and maturity dates.
ir.library.oregonstate.edu/xmlui/bitstream/.../SR%20no.%20859_ocr.pdf
Sierra is mid season to late, and has short dormany. HiLite Russet is early and has good dormancy Krantz is mid season and has short dormany Russet Norkotah is very early and has medium dormancy
Hope this helps.
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Post by jocelyn on Nov 27, 2016 10:39:03 GMT -5
I forgot to mention, I have a few chestnuts on the home place and a bunch more in our woods.
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Post by jocelyn on Nov 27, 2016 10:37:59 GMT -5
He's a pleasant chatty soul too. He also posts on the TACF listserve, and that's dedicated to only chestnuts. lists.psu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=TACF-GROWERSFor serious chestnut enthusiasts, it's a good place to read up, and to take part.
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Post by jocelyn on Nov 26, 2016 10:45:34 GMT -5
Interesting thread. Elms transplant well, I have popped up lots of them to plant in our woods. Federal Forestry (Canada) has been taking slips off old elms and grafting lots of copies so they can innoculate some copies to see if any live. The ones that do have been planted in large groves to make seed. Rarely, seed is available from the seedbank. Not all seedlings have good resistance, and some are pretty straggly, not horticultural beauties. The federal breeder says there are 2 or 3 major genes and some minor ones, that if you get lucky and stack them all in one seedling, make a very tolerant tree. I don't think they are giving out slips yet, but they may occasionally have seed. On line chit chat suggests a shape pocket knife and grafting any old trees you can find into whatever elm you have at home may provide some tolerant seedlings. I've got a few that way myself, on totally succeptable roots, so am hoping for seed sooner, rather than later. PEI, where I am from, is considered 'generally infested' with the DED, so I'm not sure I can mail anything except seed away. It will be a while till I have seed. Two promicing seedlings are 5 growing seasons old, and the bark is starting to furrow, so I'll know soon enough if they have any tolerance. The seedparent survived innoculation. If there is any interest, I can keep seedlots seperate when my grafts flower, and we can all trade seeds.
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Post by jocelyn on Nov 26, 2016 9:47:23 GMT -5
Does anybody have a pollination chart for walnuts, what will set sets with what? So, regia and nigra OK, ailanthifolia and cinerea OK, manchurian and english OK, what else? Anybody know? I have several species on the home place and planted seednuts a year or so ago, and am curious what I might get. Available parents, regia, cinerea, ailanthifolia and a couple of cinereaXailanthifolia crosses.
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Post by jocelyn on Nov 26, 2016 8:40:51 GMT -5
Well, those are very interesting. I've still got pooled seed this year, don't know enough about hand pollination yet.
This is going to be fun, so many possibilities, grin.
Thankyou so much for the pictures.
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Post by jocelyn on Nov 25, 2016 18:32:46 GMT -5
Oh, Ok, thanks
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