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Post by Alan on Apr 3, 2008 12:46:22 GMT -5
Johno, definetly get your big guys going first to make up for DTM. Also one suggestion I would make is that if you will be selecting in the future for small bush types would be to select for the very largest leaves on the plants. I think it would be possible to breed a very sweet squash on a bush plant as long as you select for sufficient enough leaf coverage to turn the suguar volume up.
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Post by robin282 on Apr 16, 2008 21:50:25 GMT -5
Hey!
Those beans have sprouted!
They still shouldn't even be planted for at least a month!
Woo-Hoo!
Robin
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Post by pugs on Apr 17, 2008 17:19:15 GMT -5
Robin,
That's so cool! Keep selecting for those cold sprouting/surviving beans. We need people to do these things.
Pugs
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Post by Alan on Apr 17, 2008 22:23:09 GMT -5
Congrats on the success Robyn! Keep up the good work and keep right on selecting and in no time at all we will have a terrific, somewhat cool soil tolerant new bean selection! Best of luck friend! Can't wait to grow your first project in my gardens!
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Post by canadamike on Apr 18, 2008 2:17:24 GMT -5
Same here Robyn, don't forget I am much more of a looker than Alan ;D... at least in my dreams...  On a serious note, what kind of seeds do you want this fall? |
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Post by Alan on Apr 18, 2008 22:33:11 GMT -5
LOL, I look like a big, sunburned, wooly, bear right now, really!
Anyhow, my 2112 sweet corn is going in the ground Monday regardless as my first experiment of 2008. It will be a cross of Early Sunglow F2 material and Seneca Arrowhead F2 material. Looking for a good, cool soil tolerant, cold toleran, early (55-65 days), Open pollinated, small eared yellow sweet corn. Named in tribute of the greatest rock band of all time, Rush, and their terrific album, 2112!
Will be updating often this year!
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Post by canadamike on Apr 20, 2008 16:20:53 GMT -5
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Post by orflo on Apr 21, 2008 0:08:39 GMT -5
I s there any specific place over here where we can go on discussing and exploring the music, I see there are some addicted people over here ;D
Frank
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Post by canadamike on Apr 21, 2008 11:55:28 GMT -5
There is the soapbox, but it is normally a place to vent frustration. I guess the answer is no, but there are many musicians here, and Alan played with some heavy people and I used to produce shows...and yes, before you ask, the token french canadian of the site did produce Céliiiiiiiinnnne  ( great legs!!) |
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Post by johno on Apr 21, 2008 21:56:41 GMT -5
(All in fun-) Well I second the motion for RUSH as the greatest rock band of all time. 2112 ROCKS!
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Post by sammyqc on Apr 21, 2008 22:04:34 GMT -5
Noooooo.........Johno, I thought you had taste??? C'mon, the Hip?? I sent you a cd!!
Rush is okay, in the loosest term of 'okay', but there are so many much better Canadian bands.
Blue Rodeo is the absolute best, with the Hip a close second.
(Mike, Celine??? rather stab my eyes out with rusty nails.)
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Post by Alan on Apr 21, 2008 22:49:31 GMT -5
You made me laugh so hard I snorted pepsi today mike! Anyhow, we have had some good musical discussions in the other hobbies forum in the past and I would love to have some more!
2112 Rocks Johno! Oh, and the sweet corn is in the ground too!
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Post by raymondo on Apr 26, 2008 17:26:30 GMT -5
Experiments either in the ground or planned:
A yellow beet the shape of Cylindra - I have Cylindra and Burpee's Golden in a patch hoping they'll cross. I'll collect the Golden seed for grow out. I think the yellow colour is recessive. Anyone know for sure?
A purple podded snowpea - Blue Capucijner and Oregon Giant as parents. I tried this last year but my crosses didn't take.
A tasty naked seeded pumpkin - got a bunch of naked seeded pumpkins from Long Island Seed as a starter for this. Got to find a great tasting pepo squash now!
A larger Jaune Flammée tomato - growing F3 this coming season.
Got a bunch of kale and collard seed I want to plant and allow random crosses to see what develops. Love kales and collards!
Would like to move the golden rind gene(s) of the watermelon Golden Midget into some other varieties. Anything to help me decide when a watermelon is ripe!!!
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Post by canadamike on Apr 27, 2008 14:49:02 GMT -5
Raymondo, I would recommend THELMA SANDER'S SWEET POTATO SQUASH as a good pepo. And it is incredibly productive too.
The flesh is withish right out of the field and good, but it gets a lot of carachter after months of storage, and become orange, like the skin by the way ( pale orange or so), so there is a ''flavor'' indicator.
I have seeds of a mass-cross of them and sweet dumpling, with each o f both as a mother, there is 2 size of seeds, so probably different results are to be expected, got LOTS of them, just tell me and they will go your way with the tomatoes.
You could select from there...getting a year ahead or so...
And Sammy, what can I say, a job is a job...got NO records of her and cringe when my wife plays her, it gives me uterine cramps
but as human beings, her and her husband are wonderful and humble, and the whole entourage is LOADED with love and respect.
Somewhere, in a professional life, these things do count...
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Post by johno on Apr 28, 2008 11:26:00 GMT -5
Sammy, I loved the CD you sent me (thank you!) but I still think RUSH is the GREATEST...
Michel and I are cooking up some international melon crosses... more on that later.
I haven't planted my corn yet. I had hoped to last week, but we're still having quite cool nights. Last night my neighbor (elevation about 20' lower than mine) had light frost. Tonight will be colder, and I expect frost here. And it has been raining cats and dogs, so the ground is cold and wet... But I think we'll be done with it after tonight! I'll start planting corn possibly today, surely later in the week.
The C. moshata squashes are sown in newspaper pots - haven't sprouted yet. I ended up sowing: Seminole Pumpkin, Magdalena Big Cheese, Tahitian, Shishigatani, Greek Sweet Red, Musquee du Provence, and one called Menina Brasiliera - I don't recall where that one came from (though the handwriting looks foreign, so maybe from Hristo last year?) or even if it's a moshata, but the seeds look like it. Anybody familiar with it? I'll plant the bush types (Butterbush and Autumn Glow) later because they mature much faster.
Raymondo, the kale and collards crosses sound very interesting. I think there's lots of potential there. Please keep us informed on that! I hope the blue peas take for you this time. Yellow cylindra... good stuff, my man - keep us posted!
I used to try the straw method of telling when a watermelon is ripe, but thump-and-listen is more reliable, for what it's worth...
Robin, I would have sent you that popcorn, but I never got your address. If it's not too late for you to plant some, I have plenty...
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Pfffft.... the one you prefer maybe, which proves nobody is perfect ;D but THE GREATEST 
