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Post by raymondo on Jul 4, 2012 16:43:12 GMT -5
I'll watch with interest Richard. I hadn't heard of these until reading your post.
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Post by MikeH on Jul 5, 2012 5:13:35 GMT -5
there's 24 different named varieties and a mixer of other non-named seed from which i have already started I've got 8 named F1 cultivars. What you've got is collection of F1's. The first lot came from the remains of last year's harvest that is in the freezer. There's no knowing which bushes they came from. The second lot of seeds came from specific bushes. I don't have much info on the University of Saskatchewan's breeding programme. I do know that all four of their named cultivars came from row 9 and that the highest numbered of these 4 cultivars was 92. Potentially, they had 9x92= 828 plants at least that they started with. There's someone growing haskap from Hokkaido, Japan in Murray, Kentucky - www.bluegrassgardens.net/Catalog/Japanese%20Haskap.htm. Wiki describes the weather there as humid subtropical. There is someone in the US who is selling the Canadian cultivars in the US. Their testimonials page - www.honeyberryusa.com/honeyberry-testimonials.html - shows two people from Texas who bought plants. Perhaps HoneyberryUSA can tell you how these folks in Texas faired with their plants. |
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Post by orflo on Jul 6, 2012 2:50:25 GMT -5
Good thing for you Richard, and thanks for the info MIke! I have two plants growing, but I'm looking for more of these, I like the earliness of the berries (so do the birds...), and they taste quite nice. Plants are a bit slow to start growing , but once they get established they're OK. They don't become big though, so it's best if you have more than just a few...
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Post by MikeH on Aug 13, 2012 6:56:21 GMT -5
Seedlings are looking good. Let's hope they continue and that the new seeds also do well.
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Post by MikeH on Aug 28, 2012 3:20:02 GMT -5
Good question, Richard. I don't know the answer. The first batch of seeds that I sent you were from fruit harvested last June which Joyce froze until I thawed them to extract the seeds. They would have been frozen until the time you received them less 1 week and shipping time. Seems like a long time but as I said, I don't know. I'd email Clayton Wiebe - bluehoneysuckle.blogspot.ca/. He has started hundreds, probably thousands of plants from seed in his breeding efforts. |
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Post by MikeH on Aug 29, 2012 5:00:31 GMT -5
I agree but that's the only thing I know about cold stratification. Hence, my suggestion to ask Clayton.
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Post by raymondo on Sept 7, 2012 7:44:01 GMT -5
Richard, when your plants get to fruit bearing age, any chance of few seeds across the Tasman?
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Post by MikeH on Sept 7, 2012 7:59:47 GMT -5
Richard, when your plants get to fruit bearing age, any chance of few seeds across the Tasman? Ray, How cold do your winters get? Mike |
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Post by raymondo on Sept 7, 2012 16:50:32 GMT -5
Ray, How cold do your winters get? Mike Virtually no snow, but subzero (°C) most nights. Coldest I've known it here was -15°C, but that's very much the exception. Although I'm only 30° south of the equator I'm at 1000 m. Our winters are cold and our summers cool, compared to most of the rest of the country. Yer no worries Ray,unfortunately ive used all the seed from Mike other wise i could have sent ya some of that lot. No problem Richard. Happy to wait for them. Thanks. |
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Post by MikeH on Sept 7, 2012 19:41:57 GMT -5
Ray, How cold do your winters get? Mike Virtually no snow, but subzero (°C) most nights. Coldest I've known it here was -15°C, but that's very much the exception. Although I'm only 30° south of the equator I'm at 1000 m. Our winters are cold and our summers cool, compared to most of the rest of the country. Those conditions should give you fruit. Email me your address and I'll send you some seed. It'll be like Richard's first batch of seed, ie, from fruit in the freezer although it's only been frozen for 3 months. Mike |
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Post by MikeH on Jan 10, 2013 7:12:54 GMT -5
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Post by raymondo on Jan 12, 2013 3:44:53 GMT -5
Something germinated in my haskap tray but I'm not at all sure that it is a haskap plant. There's a euphorbia that grows everywhere here and the seedling looks as much like that as it does Richard's pictures. I'll pot it on and see what develops. Time will tell I suppose.
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Post by davida on Jan 12, 2013 13:09:45 GMT -5
The only set back ive had is the pen i used had faded on the tags,i was able to redo most of them but there's some that i just cant read I use the tip of my pocket knife to punch small holes in the tags when I can use a number system. No worry about fading. |
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Post by raymondo on Jan 12, 2013 14:50:46 GMT -5
Or use a pencil Richard. I use 2B or preferably 4B. Doesn't fade and doesn't wash off. Does rub off though so you have to be careful when handling the tags!
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Post by galina on Jan 13, 2013 7:19:54 GMT -5
We call them Honeyberry.
For what it is worth, they grow very well in Britain including as far North as the North of mainland Scotland and I have also seen them fruiting well much further South, in Hungary at 46 North latitude.
Wish you good luck with the project. I think it might be relatively easy to breed cultivars that fit your location well.
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