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Post by flowerweaver on Jan 23, 2014 15:29:57 GMT -5
I would be interested in trying the seeds. Sweet potatoes grow well here, but I haven't found one that tastes as good as I know they can be.
Last weekend a friend gave me two tubers (for slips) that come from Thailand. They are small and thin with orange flesh. He says they will have striking orange maple-like leaves and that in Thailand they use half the field for eating the leaves and the other half for eating the tubers. I'm quite intrigued. Does anyone know anything about this particular sweet potato?
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Post by freeholder on Jan 26, 2014 12:41:31 GMT -5
I'd like to be on the list of interested persons, also, but like Steev, better put me at the bottom of the list. We are on the north side of his drought and I'm just hoping I can get anything at all to grow here this year. Regular potatoes grow here commercially, but it would sure be nice to have sweet potatoes, too.
Kathleen
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Post by flowerweaver on Jan 28, 2014 18:21:51 GMT -5
Let us know when you want to start your project. I forgot to mention I have a 230+ 8B growing season.
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Post by imgrimmer on Jan 30, 2014 4:25:04 GMT -5
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Post by blackox on Jan 30, 2014 16:35:04 GMT -5
Kevin, you can put me on the bottom of the list with Steev and Freeholder. We've been in the proccess of relocating and with the house that we were after sold we have no idea were we are going to be in a few years.
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Post by kevin8715 on Jan 31, 2014 0:49:40 GMT -5
Interesting resource. Anyone familar with it? Is it similar to CIP? I have used GRIN just for some einkorn to breed a California adapted landrace. I'm still doing growouts because of limited space. |
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Post by steev on Jan 31, 2014 2:51:44 GMT -5
I've never thought to consider starting a race to the bottom, even of a seed-list.
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Post by kevin8715 on Feb 24, 2014 22:25:19 GMT -5
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Post by steev on Feb 24, 2014 23:37:22 GMT -5
I was just looking at the varieties offered today in my local produce market; so tempting to start some for slips, but premature, I know; normally not safe through May to set them out.
I'm contemplating buying cheap jug wine, which is about the only thing that still comes in glass gallon jugs, which I can cut for cloches, to protect this sort of cold-sensitive plants; plastic jugs are everywhere, but they'll blow off; I sure can't afford "real" glass cloches. Can't say I want to drink that (much) wine; I'm hoping to pawn it off on my house-mates. Hey! They get my fresh produce; they owe me!
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Post by kevin8715 on Mar 24, 2014 21:23:05 GMT -5
Starting some slips from an organic one which I bought from the grocery store. The timing should be perfect when the slips are ready to set out.
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Post by templeton on Mar 25, 2014 16:58:13 GMT -5
Kevin and others, found this journal article which might be of assistance
"Self- and cross-incompatibilities in sweetpotato and their implications on breeding
Australian Journal of Crop Science
Volume 7 Issue 13 (Dec 2013)
Gurmu, Fekadu1; Hussein, Shimelis2; Laing, Mark3
If you can't get access I can probably download it through my uni library. While I would love to grow sweet potato, I haven't got the water. So start a second list, 'Those who might just be interested at some unforseen time in the future', and put me at the bottom.
Steev, challenge accepted - race is on...
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Post by jondear on Mar 25, 2014 18:33:53 GMT -5
Sandhill has a good list of varieties to try if anyone is interested. One of these years I'll try them here in Maine.
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Post by kevin8715 on Mar 25, 2014 20:35:55 GMT -5
Read it throughout. Spray to increase humidity and hot temperatures is what I got out of it. Also, have a diverse number of varieties. The rest was explaining the genetics about self incompatibility and cross incompatibility. |
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Post by steev on Mar 25, 2014 23:49:50 GMT -5
Last week, I stuck three tubers in water for slips: Beauregard, Garnet, and Sweet.
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Post by paquebot on Mar 26, 2014 10:26:02 GMT -5
Last year, grew 5 varieties. Only O'Henry failed to produce blossoms. Beauregard and Georgia Jet had quite a few followed by Centennial and Covington. I went so far as hand-pollinate some blossoms and never saw a single seed. That seems to be an indication of why there are so few varieties available.
Martin
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