Post by waltseed on May 14, 2011 16:54:24 GMT -5
Hi. I've been a member a sort while. I haven't had time to introduce myself, as I use a computer at the public library, and the limited time is precious. But today I have somke time.
I have 2 years grad school, Kansas State University, in genetics. My research was on wide hybridization, wheat x rye, wheat x barley, barley x rye.
For 3 years I was in charge of vegetable research and vegetable seed production during my Peace Corps time in the Republic du Niger. Mostly it was tomatoes, peppers, onions, and okra. And part of my job was traveling the country picking up seeds of local varieties, taking them bck to the research station, growing them out, selecting the better ones and multiplying them for redistribution. Fun job.
Then I worked 4 years at the Land Institute, working on perenial grains. That was wheat and wheat relatives, sunflowers, sorghum and Illinois bundlflower. And some experimental work with curly dock wild senna, the first high-seed-yielding perenials we found. That was before we found that Maximilian sunflower "Prairy Gold" had 90% of the yield of domestic sunflower.
That was back in the 1980s. My wife left and I got depression and lost my job and career. Bummer. Since I've tried teaching, guitar making, construction, and maintanance jobs, and may retire next year.
Garden projects I'm involved in include:
Crossing the se gene into Country Gentleman and Golden Bantam corn.
Combining O'odham 60 Day Flour corn, Gaspe Flint corn, Early Alberta Fint cornand the su gene into a very early sweet corn.
Making a hybrid population of tomatoes using LA 0722 and some varieties of tomatoes that do well here in Kansas using a male sterile gene linked to a brown seed gene.
Crossing the giant Peruvian corn used for Cornnuts with adapted corn varieties like Hickory King, Cherokee Blue and White, and Boody Butcher.
Crossing some well adapted melons, Iroquois, Garden Peach (AKA Mango melon), Queen Anne's Pocket Melon, and a honeydew of unknown origen.
I breed arilbred iris, see arilsociety.org for pictures of aril iris (iris from the Middle East and Asia, mostly adapted to deserts) and arilbred iris (hybrids between the tall bearded iris and their close relatives and the aril iris).
I am in central Kansas, USA, just divorced again, last week, and looking for some land, quick. I'm still hoping to put a garden in this summer. There are towns around with houses going for as little as $2,000, need some work, but I've been in construction, so I am looking forward to doing some for myself.
Right now all my breeding stuff is either seeds in a refridgerater or flowerpots.
I have 2 years grad school, Kansas State University, in genetics. My research was on wide hybridization, wheat x rye, wheat x barley, barley x rye.
For 3 years I was in charge of vegetable research and vegetable seed production during my Peace Corps time in the Republic du Niger. Mostly it was tomatoes, peppers, onions, and okra. And part of my job was traveling the country picking up seeds of local varieties, taking them bck to the research station, growing them out, selecting the better ones and multiplying them for redistribution. Fun job.
Then I worked 4 years at the Land Institute, working on perenial grains. That was wheat and wheat relatives, sunflowers, sorghum and Illinois bundlflower. And some experimental work with curly dock wild senna, the first high-seed-yielding perenials we found. That was before we found that Maximilian sunflower "Prairy Gold" had 90% of the yield of domestic sunflower.
That was back in the 1980s. My wife left and I got depression and lost my job and career. Bummer. Since I've tried teaching, guitar making, construction, and maintanance jobs, and may retire next year.
Garden projects I'm involved in include:
Crossing the se gene into Country Gentleman and Golden Bantam corn.
Combining O'odham 60 Day Flour corn, Gaspe Flint corn, Early Alberta Fint cornand the su gene into a very early sweet corn.
Making a hybrid population of tomatoes using LA 0722 and some varieties of tomatoes that do well here in Kansas using a male sterile gene linked to a brown seed gene.
Crossing the giant Peruvian corn used for Cornnuts with adapted corn varieties like Hickory King, Cherokee Blue and White, and Boody Butcher.
Crossing some well adapted melons, Iroquois, Garden Peach (AKA Mango melon), Queen Anne's Pocket Melon, and a honeydew of unknown origen.
I breed arilbred iris, see arilsociety.org for pictures of aril iris (iris from the Middle East and Asia, mostly adapted to deserts) and arilbred iris (hybrids between the tall bearded iris and their close relatives and the aril iris).
I am in central Kansas, USA, just divorced again, last week, and looking for some land, quick. I'm still hoping to put a garden in this summer. There are towns around with houses going for as little as $2,000, need some work, but I've been in construction, so I am looking forward to doing some for myself.
Right now all my breeding stuff is either seeds in a refridgerater or flowerpots.
