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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Jun 26, 2016 18:18:07 GMT -5
keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) great pictures! After a long think about the 'greenish' yellow of the yellow snaps I came to the conclusion after looking at pods with blank seeds that a good portion of the greenish colouration was due to the pod translucency and the mature green seeds. I can't think of a fix for that... ..hmm.. interesting idea. That very well could be part of it. Another reason i want to try investigating working with the orange-pod gene. Because on the orange pods in the places where the seeds were touching the pods a discernable orange color showed through despite the pod base color being green and the seeds being green as well. Even better if one could combine yellow pods, with orange-pod gene, with Biskopens-type brick red seeds (more of a muddy brown when still in the "green" state). I'm hoping i had a few biskopens crosses this year. I suspect i did since i had some form earlier pods than last year. |
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Jun 26, 2016 18:19:00 GMT -5
That Salmon Crown x Sugar Magnolia is really pretty. Interesting combination too! Thanks! Yeah i'm really excited for this line in the future! Honestly i think that was one of the easier / more likely crosses that were able to be successful. The Crown peas produce nearly all their flowers all at once (mummy white may be the exception) and really make for easy pea crossing. Sugar Magnolia produces lots of flowers and so there were often lots of flowers i could use for male pollinations. |
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Post by ferdzy on Jun 26, 2016 19:10:30 GMT -5
I look forward to hearing how they do.
I have a few pea crosses in the garden this year, at least I have been hoping they are crosses. The jury is still out on 2 sets, but my 3rd batch are definitely crosses. I believe it is Spanish Skyscraper x Carouby de Maussane and since they are now flowering and the flowers are magenta, I'd say it took. The other crosses are white flowered x white flowered, so no clues there. Have to wait for pods to have any idea.
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Jul 7, 2016 3:54:09 GMT -5
Today i finally started to collects seeds for the peas that have already dried down. I found a few pods that had happy surprises. In a few pods of what i think were joseph's red i found some with all or mostly purple seeds. While i know some of the speckled seeds can have mostly purple seeds one year and revert back the next this does not look like that from what i can tell. I believe these are a sucsessful cross from last year with purple passion (true breeding purple seeds). In a few other pods i had seeds with a dark brown almost muddy maroon color. out of three pods, two were not large or dried down, so that means i cut them while the plant was still green. The third had small seeds also probably cut too early. I believe these were successful crosses with biskopens from last year. Hopefully they will both produce plants next season (maybe i will plant them for the fall).
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Post by templeton on Sept 9, 2016 16:44:05 GMT -5
Yesterday drove 3 hours to my friend's place where he has kindly offered to grow me a small seed crop of two of my purple snows - Jupiter, and Delta Dusk. Hoping his enthusiasm makes up for the lack of technique. He's in the Otway Ranges, with soil you could eat, double my rainfall, and the weeds get a foot high while your back is turned. He has a very relaxed approach to weeds, whereas i hate 'em....so my sheet mulching with cardboard and a sparse covering of straw and horse manure was viewed with some bemusement.
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Post by templeton on Sept 9, 2016 17:11:28 GMT -5
A quick pic of my Joni's Taxi snowpea  As well as size and low fiber, I've selected for long peduncles for easy picking. T |
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Post by philagardener on Sept 9, 2016 19:30:31 GMT -5
Those look great, T!
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Post by steev on Sept 10, 2016 1:09:40 GMT -5
You must be doing something right.
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Post by templeton on Sept 10, 2016 7:07:50 GMT -5
It's not really much - mix the genes up, then pay attention for a few years... Lucky I'm too old to be genX so i actually have an attention span  (apologies for the gratuitous insult, youngsters...  T |
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Post by steev on Sept 10, 2016 12:03:39 GMT -5
I'm too old to be genX so I'm actually losing my attention span, What?
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Post by galina on Mar 27, 2017 17:21:20 GMT -5
My pea seedling plants are just about all planted now. With plastic bottle cloches on top to prevent voles decapitating them. I prefer tall peas which just grow out of the bottle tops. Garden looks like an assortment of bottles, but the first peas are pushing out of the tops now. Soon will grip onto their tall sticks. It is getting exciting again.
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Post by steev on Mar 27, 2017 19:12:35 GMT -5
I'm adopting your bottle trick.
I used to have a glass-cutting tool with which I cut the bottoms off gallon jugs for cloches, but I lost it and I don't drink cheap jug-wine anymore, anyway; actually, considering the cost of real glass cloches, maybe I'll look for another such cutter and discard the cheesy wine; it's analogous to what's been noted here as "Chateau Cardboard" or "goonbag" wine.
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