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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on May 20, 2012 13:13:37 GMT -5
Just curious to know how everyone's peas are doing. I didn't really want to water my peas today, because i would like them to adapt to my climate conditions a little more, but with the dry air they looked like they were struggling a little, so i watered them so they wouldn't die on me. 'Virescens Mutante' seems to be doing the best. Not only was it planted in the worst soil, it also seems to be handling the dry air and noon heat quite fine so far. Has a nice thick looking stem and good growth. It's from IPK Gatersleben seedbank in Germany.
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Post by 12540dumont on May 20, 2012 14:26:31 GMT -5
Peas are looking good, picked 9 pounds last week. Need to pick again tonight when it's cooler. Attachments:
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Post by blueadzuki on May 20, 2012 17:45:02 GMT -5
Not good. They were doing alright germinating during the cold part of the year, but once the hit maybe 9 inches and started putting out tendrils they really stopped putting on lateral growth. I thought it might be that they had run out of ability to support themselves, and so kept trying to get them to attach to the trellis (at 9 inches they were a bit short to safely tie to it, but the kept pulling away and climbing on each other. And now that the weather has finally started to warm up a little, I have little hope that, even if they do start growing again, they'll flower.
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Post by oxbowfarm on May 20, 2012 18:02:23 GMT -5
OK, the first planting is starting to wane, the snowstorm that crushed it flat made it very difficult to pick.
The second planting is just starting to flower, third planting is getting transplanted in the next few days. It is a little mature to still be in the tray, c'est la vie.
Fourth planting just fully leafed out in the trays.
That will probably be it for us this spring.
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on May 20, 2012 18:18:45 GMT -5
Most of mine are still only 3-5" tall, so still plenty of time to go before flowers and pods appear. The dwarf peas are still only about an inch tall. It is interesting though, that Tom Thumb does look like it is starting to form small immature flowers. If so, Tom Thumb may be the earliest flowering pea this year. I'm not sure if that is related to it's dwarfness or not though.
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Post by DarJones on May 20, 2012 19:50:35 GMT -5
My peas are done. As in ready to harvest for seed. I will start pulling them out tomorrow if the weather cooperates.
DarJones
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on May 21, 2012 18:47:45 GMT -5
I was sent an email today from my local USDA representative requesting info for the peas i requested in 2011. So today i went out and took info for all the peas, and i have enough info to list the best ones starting with the best based on growth and health of the plants compared to each other. Here are the preliminary results:
1. Virescens Mutante
2. Carouby De Maussane
3. Sugar Magnolia (mostly tallness, but not necessarily health)
4. Mummy White
5. Umbellata (green seeds)
6. Amish Snap
7. Golden Sweet
8. Spaeth's Hohenheimer Rosablaettrige Futter
9. Bijou
10. Biskopens
Oh, and yes Tom Thumb is forming flowers. It is the earliest. I believe that is 53 days from seed planted to first flowers forming.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on May 23, 2012 23:14:55 GMT -5
Here's what my earliest patch of peas looked like on May 22nd. These are snow, and snap, and soup peas. Part of a row is Biskopens Red Seeded Pea: I won't know which until harvest. I plant another patch of peas all spring as soon as the previous patch is about an inch tall. The row closest to the camera are (supposedly) an F1 hybrid between a yellow snow pea and a purple snap pea. Both varieties were compliments of Holly last summer from the Kapuler collection, I believe. The other hybrid I attempted didn't germinate.  |
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Post by steev on May 24, 2012 0:13:08 GMT -5
Last Friday, I noticed that one of the pitiful remnants of my critter-raddled peas had produced A pod; whoop-te-doo. Maybe next year.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on May 25, 2012 1:25:36 GMT -5
Last year, there were a few peas in my landrace peas that matured about 10 days earlier than the rest of the patch. I harvested those peas separately and planted them in their own row this spring. Some of them are blooming today... I'm not very good at determining what a node is, but I'd say that the blossoms start on the 7th node. So I marked the 9 plants that are in boom today: 7 out of ~100 in the earliest pea patch, and 2 out of ~500 from the general landrace patch. Both patches planted on the same day a few feet from each other. I'll try to notice and report when the rest of the plants bloom.  |
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Post by mayz on May 25, 2012 6:08:42 GMT -5
my peas are going to blossom in few days for the first sowing (end of March). My peas are a cultivar of wrinkled shelled pea. I save the seeds of my peas since four years. Thanks to it I have noticed a clear improvement in soil emergence for the first sowings. Attachments:
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Post by raymondo on May 25, 2012 6:31:01 GMT -5
Joseph, is the selection of lower node flowering aimed at earliness?
Mayz, good looking crop. What cultivar is it?
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on May 25, 2012 10:32:37 GMT -5
Joseph, is the selection of lower node flowering aimed at earliness? In my earliest sub-strain of peas I am only selecting for earliness, but since there was a post recently noting that flowering time in peas doesn't occur until after so many nodes are present, I thought that I would count nodes. I'll count nodes on the later flowering plants too, just to see. |
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Post by mayz on May 25, 2012 10:44:27 GMT -5
Surgevil, a french cv from Vilmorin
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on May 25, 2012 17:41:08 GMT -5
I just tried to count the nodes on the ones flowering in my garden. Tom Thumb (most of which are forming flowers) looks like it might be at the 7th node, while Mighty Midget (1 forming flowers out of 4) looks like it might be the 9th node. Both are dwarf peas. If pea flowering is indeed related to node, then are all dwarf peas going to flower earlier than tall peas?
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