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Post by jocelyn on Aug 19, 2020 8:18:49 GMT -5
I started off with defiant, because I could get it locally. It has one pH2 and one pH3. If you grow it at least 10 meters from other tomatoes, it will self with no hand pollinations required. Save those seeds, best if they are pooled seeds from several plants. Plant what you need and wait for a bad blight year. The ones that blight and die have just removed themselves from the breeding population. In my area, both pH2 and pH3 are needed, and in a bad blight year, you can tell the ones with 2 copies of each. At this point, save seed from the homozygotes separately and plant one or two in the middle of a group of tomatoes you enjoy the flavour of. Let the bees mix them up and start the process again to concentrate the resistances. Defiant is useful because it's detirminant, a bush type, and I like some of the climbing ones, the indetirminants. The crosses are closer to climbing in phenotype. it's easy to pick them out by the time the fruits form. If you can bring in seeds from outside the EU, Iron lady has two copies of both pH2 and pH3. Otherwise, use what you have and it only takes a couple extra years. Google blight resistance in tomatoes, and see what you get. Here's a link I found, and there are lots more eorganic.org/node/10822
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Post by jocelyn on Aug 2, 2020 12:47:38 GMT -5
I grow tomatoes with both pH2 and pH3, so don't get visible blight. I save my own seeds, which means that untill a line stabilizes with 2 copies of each, some plants can have 1 or none of a gene. Those plants get blight on the fruits, and if they are not too bad, I keep seed so I have some control plants to compare with. Most years they are no more likely to have blight than purchased seeds with no resistance. I know that only partly answers the question:)
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Post by jocelyn on May 11, 2020 17:10:56 GMT -5
I think the dry flesh comes from adding up the genes for higher dry matter. More genes for dry gives more dry matter in the flesh and less water. Keep the seeds from the dryer ones and you will make progress.
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Post by jocelyn on Apr 21, 2020 7:28:18 GMT -5
I wanna know who the first person was who ate an oyster.....or a lobster, looks like a giant bug.
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Post by jocelyn on Apr 13, 2020 10:21:28 GMT -5
it was a russian blue open pollinated seedling, father unknown and many possible. I got 2 tubers from it, so will be replanting. There were 4 superior seedlings next to it and they got bared off to just stems.
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Post by jocelyn on Apr 13, 2020 7:06:50 GMT -5
If one plant is furry and there are 4 non furry ones next to it, and only the furry one is not defoliated, is this what you mean? I did have a furry blue seedling last summer, and I was away for a bit and the CPB ate the smoother leaved ones, but not the one furry one. Should I take pictures once it comes up again this spring? I will share, if it is what you mean. I'm on PEI, east coast of Canada.
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Post by jocelyn on Mar 31, 2020 7:07:23 GMT -5
I'm going to plant a few more potatoes and squash, as they store well. I might not be able to get meat bird chicks this year, depending on how long the covid thing hangs around. We will have lots of nuts, so that will be local protein if the meat birds don't pan out. Might do some more beets and onions too, as it seems to be an off year for mice...giving the beets a chance. Cabbages are iffy here, the mice usually get them.
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Post by jocelyn on Mar 1, 2020 10:03:29 GMT -5
If you don't know if your apple seeds have enough chill and how dried out they got, try anyway. You can fill a food tub with damp peat and lay the seeds on top. Put the lid on to keep them damp and pop in the fridge. Check on them every few weeks to see if they are doing anything. Apples will start in the fridge when they are ready. i.postimg.cc/15rmSXQ6/storing-seeds-in-fridge.jpg
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Post by jocelyn on Feb 26, 2020 9:10:59 GMT -5
Here is an interesting population link data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?most_recent_value_desc=trueThe world fertility rate is a little under 2.5 children per woman, over her lifetime. If you scroll down, you get the rates per country. Countries with little old age security, possible disease or war wiping out parts of the popluation, those countiries have more children. I couldn't find population growth per country, over time. It's probably out there though. World population growth is slowing. See the following link. It has some interesting sublinks too. ourworldindata.org/world-population-growthRight now, world population growth is about 1 percent a year, down a lot.
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Post by jocelyn on Feb 23, 2020 6:55:36 GMT -5
Thinking back to tales of the dirty thirties, the little iceage, and now, climate change and economic downturns...... we'll manage. Folks will rip up some of the lawn for potatoes, perhaps plant fruit or nut trees instead of ornamental shade trees. It may even become cool to garden. In Canada, about 80 percent of us live in cities, and they had better learn to garden. Urban planning is not presently helpfull for gardening, but it might change if the necessity is there. City lots are large enough for dwarf apples and other fruits, probably not for nut trees though. There needs to be a culture shift, and I think it's just starting. Not there yet, but starting.
I drove through 'snob hill', the well to do neighbourhood,one summer... where appearances are important and the neighbours will grumble at you if you do something to 'lower property values'. A house had blue potatoes up both side of the walk, blueish foliage, pale blue flowers, and red salvia and red petunias interplanted. I bet the neighbours thought they were flowers and the home owner got no flack. A bit more of that would go a long way:)
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Post by jocelyn on Feb 21, 2020 6:25:50 GMT -5
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Post by jocelyn on Feb 21, 2020 6:15:47 GMT -5
Green times blue may give some blue. Orange times blue may give some salmon. Blue and salmon have happened here. My blue and green are probably splits, so I think blue might be recessive... and I use open pollination on a portion of them, so pollen parents can be varied. Maybe someone else will help, that's all I've got:)
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Post by jocelyn on Feb 20, 2020 18:11:42 GMT -5
Umm, YUM, crispy roast duck and mile high duck egg cakes, heaven:)
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Post by jocelyn on Feb 20, 2020 18:09:07 GMT -5
Some of the Russian walnuts are very precocious, and I am about to find out how soon they bear. I live in Canada, so have to get mine through CFIA, but maybe you can get some too?
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Post by jocelyn on Feb 19, 2020 9:26:05 GMT -5
Let me try again, grin. I have nuts to share every fall. I am still planting nuts for us too. We are both retired already. Anyone who wants good regia walnuts, 2 trees worth sharing, can have some for the postage. Anyone who wants good ailanthifolia walnut, 3 good enough to share, can also have some. I am trialing some of the soviet walnuts, regias, and it may be 10 years till they bear. If we still live here, I will share those too. Age will eventually send us to Town, but hopefully, not soon
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