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Post by cortona on Feb 19, 2010 9:35:01 GMT -5
hi Michael, i'm interessed on var n:1/3/10/22 and if you or others can explain a easy way to graft tomato seedsling the 29 ps how big are your bigzac? i want to give it a try! i have just post my list of seeds so if you are interested on something...let me know! Emanuele
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Post by cortona on Feb 19, 2010 9:13:47 GMT -5
you call italy! here i am! i have cavolo nero di toscana, cavolo nero dell'umbria and if you want i ask to some seed saver friend to send me seeds for you! ask and is done! best wishes Emanuele
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Post by cortona on Feb 19, 2010 8:40:56 GMT -5
ok, i'm new of this forum and this winter i've make a lot of excange so the ammount of seeds per variety are little but still i have some seeds to excange share with you! tomatoes: kilo della garfagnana :pink,meathy,big(around 800/1500 g)a bit late strange old variety from tuscany being my principal tomato for fresh use, easy to peel without use hot wather belmonte: hearth shaped tomatoes that can bear tons of tom or if flowerpruned can bear enormous beast but stil with a nice shape and flawor, from the belmonte town in south italy bernardini: i have named this variety with the name of the old farmer that give me this seeds some year ago, it is a variety he select in years but i realy dont know nothing other that the firts year i've tryed itis a bad damn hot summer and it overproduced dreamaticly the roma my dad plants usualy.... after this no more roma in my patch ;D gigante 2 this is a variety a friend grower send me with this label and so i 've tryed with good result, big beefsteak, red color(yellow skin)of realy nice colour a bit earlyer tan kilodellagarfagnana,and with good flawor da appendere rosa: nice sort of big sherry tipe from south italy, bred to be grown in realy dry condition(in sicily it recive water wen is planted and no more!) i treath it like my others tomatoes and it give me lotts of nice tomatoes that hang in a frost free place wen mature stay in good conditions for months(i've used it today and stil good!) a pear shaped tomato that a friend of my father give us that is red and good flawor, good producer and hearlyer tan gigante 2 bit i have not cheked seeds for purity so i cant guarante for it!(i pick for seeds the central plants in a grouph of this plants stil near to other tomatoes ) costoluto fiorentino selezione novoli : good nice red ruffle tomato usual realy pryzed for salsa use because of his hig pectine content and for flawour (2008/2009 seeds) beans norcino: is a short polebean of tobacco color that i've recived some year ago from a farmer in the norcia city zone, it produce good for me without too much water and realy realy hot summer i like the rich flawor so i continue to save it! migliorucci:is the name of the old grower in the castiglionfiorentino town that give me this seeds this winter; is an hold family heirloom saved from almost 3 generations, it give me an alf kg of old seeds(3 years old) promising to give me fresh seeds wen i come back and i plan to visit he in the next 2 week) popping garbanzo bean a friend had to go in pakistan for work and gently go at the market and buy for me the mostly interessant thingh he find i've grown it for two year now and i have a good ammount of seeds to share with people! it is reported it was popped in hot sand in the owen but i have not sacrified a single seeds in skarry of lose something important in this variety mais pearl withe popcorn is an old variety from centrla italy, i have find person that reported it around the rome zone in the 50's and looong before it is not the normal corn with rounded kernells but pointed long kernells that let it seems like clean rice!i'm looking for a person that grown it largely as possible because i have les space tan needed! watermelon a yellow fleshed variety that come from the south of italy that produce nice 15 lb round melon with medium vine and good productivity(wen i recive the seeds it come labeled cocomero da serbo that is like....winter use watermelon..... no tested it in this way but...also realy good for fresh use cavolo nero di toscana aka lacinato aka palm cale and so on: heirloom in my family from generations realy good strong taste that wen frost byte start to be more and more yummy! more perennial tan the other cale in my climate(3/4 years) polezze: is a winter green (a beetroot) grown for the leaf and axillary sprouts after the central one are cut in past years the beet was used for pig feeding in spring and are realy huge! cipolla di cortona: red or yellow was grown here in the past and stil continued to grow by farmer for winter storage/use, it is as most of the variety in tuscany flat, realy big if grown with appropriate watering but can produce good with a bit les tan appropriate! broom sorgum dense heads used for brooms i have ever see it grown here and here in the valley now a bitles but stil present i have some other seeds around but this is the one i grown personaly and i'm sure enough of purity hope this list have something interest you! Best wishes Emanuele
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Post by cortona on Feb 19, 2010 7:16:12 GMT -5
Dear all being new of this forum i'm readyng everithing realy avidly! this tread are realy interessant and if anibody have some surplus seeds of some of this perennial variety i'm interested on work on something, i live in mild /hot climate(central italy) and rice with is water demand is somehing i can afford probably but something other of edible can be realy interessant i grow sorgum and every tipe of weath and other are growed around here thanks for your patience Emanuele
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Post by cortona on Feb 18, 2010 12:15:54 GMT -5
Hi to all! Grunt: i'm not an esperienced grower of atlantic giant but i have recived this seeds from fellow grower from us and europe! i have experimented another time how generous people can be! i try to do the same around! i have seeds to share (nothing so impressive but interessant) and i want to check the swap forum, i'm now planting a bunch of just germinate tomatoes/peppers seeds| in this week end i add my list best wishes Emanuele
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Post by cortona on Feb 18, 2010 12:10:38 GMT -5
Dear all, i'm interesting on tryng some colorated cotton seeds and if somebody need to grown isolated a variety i can grow it! around here you cant see cotton nowere so surely it is true ... i'm happy to be here and be part of the thingh, i'm a hobbystic breeder and ... here is a lots of fun!!!!!!!!! compliments to you all for the work you do in breeding so much things! Emanuele
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Post by cortona on Feb 16, 2010 19:01:14 GMT -5
after experimenting some year of dry summer i'm interested on dry adapted seeds,can you Alan tel more about your progress in breeding for this trait? i'm interested in seeds of some resistant veggie for breeding work, at home i'm working with 3 heirloom variety of tomatoes that come from southern italy and are usualy dry cultivate and stand for monts without problem(i'm using it now at home and it taste good enough to being used!) sorry for some mistake but my english is basic! Emanuele
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Post by cortona on Feb 16, 2010 17:58:28 GMT -5
hello hal, i'm new here, this forum is fantasticaly full of all a hobbyst grower/breeder can dream! I live in italy in the little istorical town of cortona(tuscany) i'm32year old and i garden since i'm 18, i've passed from bonsai to flower to veggie of all the varius tipes! this years i'm tryng the atlantic giant pumpkins in order to grown someting amazyng, but usualy i grown heirloom tomatoes, peppers, beans, cocumber and wath ever i find that taste good! i have find this forum following the tip of one of the moderators with i've talked about some andean tubes that i start to grown this years for the first time! hope to learn lots of thinghs here and find other fellow gardener! best wishes to all Emanuele aka cortona
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