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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Nov 23, 2022 1:19:39 GMT -5
I am starting gardening and hopefully breeding pearl onions this next year. Got into eating French food and discovered the wonderful world of pearl onions. True seed would be even better.
If you are still working on this I am interested.
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Jun 28, 2022 10:35:40 GMT -5
Indeed, I doubt these will produce fruit without hand pollination. I've already tried crossing this plant with solanum chilense, will see if they set fruit. The S. lycopersicoides plant that is currently in bloom seems to have sterile anthers: no pollen is produced at any stage of development so far. Hopefully, the other S. lycopersicoides plant doesn't have such problems. Any update? Im on the OSSI open source plant breeding forum now. Growing these two species again this year. They reportedly can cross easily with each other.
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Apr 2, 2022 3:56:45 GMT -5
Did anyone get seed for this?
Any of our Canadian members growing it out?
I would like some seed if/when it ever becomes available. I'm toying with the idea of setting up a seed shop for OSSI varieties since we are running into the problem of OSSI varieties going extinct and having no backup genebank. This might be the perfect variety to start with. I'm thinking I may want to do it for all of the OSSI varieties eventually. Sounds a bit daunting, but I think if I organize myself more it might be possible.
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Apr 2, 2022 3:54:54 GMT -5
Did anyone get seed for this?
Any of our Canadian members growing it out?
I would like some seed if/when it ever becomes available. I'm toying with the idea of setting up a seed shop for OSSI varieties since we are running into the problem of OSSI varieties going extinct and having no backup genebank. This might be the perfect variety to start with. I'm thinking I may want to do it for all of the OSSI varieties eventually. Sounds a bit daunting, but I think if I organize myself more it might be possible.
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Mar 11, 2022 10:35:26 GMT -5
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Mar 11, 2022 10:26:27 GMT -5
It's possible it could be nitrogen fixing corn feeding the bacteria. Never seen that form before though, but interesting. Never heard of spittlebugs.
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Mar 11, 2022 10:22:16 GMT -5
I almost never visit this forum anymore. Most of us have jumped ship to the new OSSI Open Source plant breeding forum.
I am one of two people with old seed for Hopi Black. Hoping to grow it out otherwise it is nearly extinct.
Have an old packet of Hopi orange. Not planning on growing it, but I think it is commercially extinct.
Still love Hopi white from seed dreams in Washington state.
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Mar 11, 2022 10:17:43 GMT -5
This year I'm doing a grow out of Double Red sweet with old purple kernels from Astronomy Domine sweet. I might throw in some detasseled country gentlemen to breed a new shoe peg sweetcorn. Also might detassel some Japanese waxy corn.
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Mar 11, 2022 10:12:57 GMT -5
Though Alan Bishop long abandoned this forum, I believe he did in fact finish this project. Unless this was a separate project from his original landrace sweetcorn.
Joseph Lofthouse kept his variety going. It is called 'Astronomy Domine' sweetcorn. You can find it on the EFN Experimental Farm Network or from Baker Creek Seeds. The modern strain does not have as many deep purple kernels as the older strain.
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Feb 25, 2022 12:24:27 GMT -5
Yes, P.fulvum has an orange coloured flower, two genes as I recall from that Tasmanian PHD thesis. Just a heads up it’s not an easy - straight forward cross. due to inter specific incompatibility. Flowers are small and as a side note the pods have explosive dehiscence. The immature pods taste very pea like and also carry some good (multi gene) resistance (at least in some accessions) to ascochyta which I think templeton might be troubled by... Cheers Steve Did you ever get P. fulvum hybrids? I'm still interested in those orange flowers. Sounds like it might be the yellow cit gene for flavonoids and when combined with the other gene for anthocyanins they appear orange. We are talking peas on the OSSI forum. There is a paper that says fulvum hybrids are a month earlier flowering than P. Sativum! My new 'Alaska' x p. elatius hybrids are probably a month early flowering as well!
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Feb 8, 2021 13:47:51 GMT -5
Nap gene peas do indeed have easier access to bees. I think nap gene peas are worth investigating more, and they already have wrinkled seeds, so they might taste good already! www.flickr.com/photos/57674169@N04/shares/9980g8EDIT: Here are two photos of the flowers of the NAP gene peas. They are open at the top so a bee could get in much easier than a traditional pea flower which is all tight and closed up. Not as dramatic as i was hoping for, but i think they certainly have potential. There is another mutation i want to plant out and study next season if i can as it may also have open flowers. If that one is just as open as these then both lines might be worth pursuing. Perhaps even crossing together (though both are recessive traits, but on different loci). 20180524_195144 by Andrew Barney, on Flickr 20180524_195206 by Andrew Barney, on Flickr Hey Anyone i may have sent pea seeds to: Do you by chance still have seeds for the NAP gene peas I may have sent you? If so, my stock is out as I must have had a crop failure. It's a variety I liked a lot, so I'm trying to track it down from anyone I may have sent seed to. Thanks!! -Andrew
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Jan 17, 2021 0:09:49 GMT -5
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Jul 14, 2020 17:12:03 GMT -5
Sadly I've never grown it, despite swapping lots of seeds (including corn) with Joseph over the years. Now I may need to finally get some! Thanks for the grow report.
The original variety bred by Alan Bishop had a lot of Native American corns in its ancestry, so I imagine many had tillers. Joseph likes to select what thrives for him and that usually means they grow like weeds for others. Haha.
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Jun 11, 2020 8:05:31 GMT -5
The orange peas is the peas wich have the best prospered for me. But theirent become orange when theirent dryng? The beta caroten appears when the chlorophyl (green) is wear? sorry for the confusion. There is a difference between 'ORC' and 'ORP' genes. 'ORC' stands for "Orange Cotyledons" and 'ORP' stands for "Orange-pod", in English. There is no linkage between orange cotyledons and orange pods. There is a linkage in one rare accession in JIC for Orc and orl (orange leaves), but that is about it. It turns out there is a new orange cotyledon cultivar working on coming to market. hodmedods.co.uk/blogs/news/flamingo-peas
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Mar 29, 2020 17:33:56 GMT -5
good luck on your peas this year!
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