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Post by nathanp on Aug 24, 2013 19:03:18 GMT -5
This is my 2nd year with groundnuts (Apios americana), but the first year I will harvest some of them. I hadn't held out any hope they would have flowered, as I have read they mainly produce through tuberization this far north. But I have at least four plants flowering right now, so hopefully that means I'll have some seed pods forming in addition to overwintering underground.
For some reason this isn't letting me upload photos. It says the forum has "exceeded it's attachement space limit"
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Post by billw on Aug 24, 2013 19:45:00 GMT -5
Are they are northern variety (triploid and therefore functionally sterile) or a southern variety (more likely diploid)?
Unfortunately, the only varieties that grow well for me are triploid. I have a couple of LSU improved varieties, but they want warmer weather, I think.
A variety with the cold tolerance of the northern strains and the size of the improved varieties could become a very popular crop.
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Post by khoomeizhi on Aug 24, 2013 20:20:30 GMT -5
i guess this is my third year growing groundnut. have three named varieties that i got from oikos, one of which is from the LSU breeding program. one of the other varieties has shown the tendency to flower every year. last year, got one seed that didn't germinate, but this year there's lots of pods, hopefully something will be viable. fun stuff.
very impressed so far with the variety 'nutty,'. nice, more potato-sized tubers. shame it won't flower.
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Post by nathanp on Aug 24, 2013 21:50:16 GMT -5
I'm not sure what variety or ploidy state these are. I bought them from someone in Massachusetts, but that doesn't necessarily mean they are of northern origin.
All 5 original tubers survived the winter last year with no problems. No idea what to expect for seeds, if anything. I'll be pleasantly pleased if I do get some, though. Especially if it turns out to be viable seed.
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Post by rowan on Aug 25, 2013 1:06:01 GMT -5
It is rare here here in Australia and I doubt that we can get any varieties, at least I haven't found any so far, so I am hoping mine produce flowers and seeds this year so I can at least hope for a random mutation. Last year with our terrible summer they didn't flower but I did get some nice sized tubers for first year plants.
Would love to buy some seeds from the US if anyone has them but I have to find out if they can be imported first - or maybe I will just take the chance, hmmm.
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Post by raymondo on Aug 25, 2013 2:04:48 GMT -5
The good news is that Apios americana can be imported into Australia the bad news is they must be grown out in a quarantine facility and tested for this and that as they grow, all at the importer's expense of course! You get the harvested seed from the growout.
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Post by rowan on Aug 25, 2013 2:09:25 GMT -5
Yeah, I just checked the quarantine website. Looks like I will have to hope mine produce seed this season.
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Post by coppice on Oct 5, 2015 18:07:24 GMT -5
I don't walk very good. I don't know what genes mine are equipped with. They are Georgian tubers. I prolly should'a googled what the vine looks like before going back down into the gully I planted that winrow in. It looks like this years tubers put out at least some vines. I did not see any bean-pods.  Hope springs eternal. |
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Hope springs eternal.