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Post by khumlee on Sept 1, 2014 4:04:22 GMT -5
4 others seeds are come  I have collect many others true sweet potato seeds of the same variety, I can share these one. |
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Post by kevin8715 on Sept 1, 2014 11:31:20 GMT -5
Finally found another cultivar with flowers. Looked like it is liberty. Now if only the unknown orange had flowers opened right now. Hopefully I will catch both flowering to hand pollinate...
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Post by notonari on Sept 16, 2014 0:06:10 GMT -5
I've been testing different SP growing methods in my garden this year and I've noticed that all my flowering plants are concentrated in one row that has been under a floating row cover for a large part of the season (over midsummer and well into July, they only started flowering after I removed the cover). Does anyone know if it is possible that the row cover played a role in inducing flowering, or is this likely to be just a coincidence? According to the product description, the row cover allows 90% of sunlight to pass through... Would a row cover have a similar effect to daylight-reduction (even though 10% seems like a fairly limited effect on the 17-hour days I have in the height of summer here)?
I have to test this again next year, it would certainly be an easy way to induce early flowering...
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Post by philagardener on Sept 16, 2014 5:28:08 GMT -5
Interesting observation! The row cover also could be raising the temperatures under there, and that might be important (particularly in your climate - but lots of folks grow in warmer places). Perhaps in combination with your much longer summer days?
For the record, can you share the brand information for your row cover? There is also the possibility that while it may look white, it might be affecting the spectral properties of the daylight. Plants respond to red / far red balance through a pigment called phytochrome, and this has well known effects on flowering in many plants.
It will be interesting to see if you can repeat this effect next year. Good luck and thanks for sharing your observations!
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Post by kevin8715 on Sept 16, 2014 19:50:02 GMT -5
One of my observations. The first variety to flower hasn't flowered for like 3 weeks. That is annoying since another variety decided to flower after the other one stopped. This probably means that each variety can be classified as an early, mid and late flowerer. There is very little chance with time left here for me to get seeds. Probably a month or two if I am lucky before the temperatures start to drop too much for this cold-sensitive crop.
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Post by philagardener on Sept 16, 2014 20:16:48 GMT -5
If seeds start to develop, maybe you can root a cutting bearing that part and bring it in to give it more time to mature?
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Post by kevin8715 on Sept 16, 2014 20:42:27 GMT -5
If seeds start to develop, maybe you can root a cutting bearing that part and bring it in to give it more time to mature? Yeah. I mentioned that in a previous post. At harvest tine I will collect any stems with flowers and/or seed pods developing. |
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Post by kevin8715 on Sept 18, 2014 0:00:18 GMT -5
A couple of days before harvest time I will post on what varieties I have available as cuttings. I am shipping them the day after harvest; tubers will be limited for most varieties since I want a few for tasting and two for planting.
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Post by notonari on Sept 18, 2014 1:16:28 GMT -5
philagardener: I don't have the product information here (I'm abroad atm) but will share it once I get back.
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Post by raymondo on Sept 18, 2014 5:08:12 GMT -5
I've been trying to figure out why khumlee's pictures of seedling sweet potato seemed so familiar. I knew I had never seen sweet potato seedlings before. Then it struck me ... the cotyledons look just like those of kangkong ... same genus ... duh!
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Post by reed on Sept 18, 2014 11:20:08 GMT -5
kevin8715 The woman that lives here grows a little purple sweet potato in her flower pots that makes seeds, they may be common I don't know much about them. Any way I have some right here right now if you want them message me your address and I will send them to you. About sweet potatoes, I love em, especially raw and I can grow nice big beautiful ones but they always taste like crap. Is there something about my soil or maybe I just haven't had the right kind? I'v tried them several times over the years and surely not always the same kind but with same result.
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Post by kevin8715 on Sept 23, 2014 21:25:23 GMT -5
First cross pollination made today between unknown orange and liberty. Hopefully both flowers take.
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Post by kevin8715 on Oct 3, 2014 18:16:35 GMT -5
A little evaluation of what flowered. Looks like the unknown orange and liberty were the only ones. Liberty is highly recommend for use in breeding in short season area. Only slip to flowered and lots of flowers per vine. It's is a yellow fleshed, dried type. I personally only like oranges though lets see how liberty taste. Unknown orange I think is nothing special. Planted from tuber and earliest to be planted. Though a neighbor got flowers from a slip I gave them.
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Post by kevin8715 on Oct 3, 2014 20:06:35 GMT -5
Harvested my larger sweet potato plant. The unknown orange tuber plant. Pictures of course.  Check out this monster. Probably around 1.5 lbs. My hand is there for size comparison. The second picture is the relatively undamage ones. At least 5 lbs based on my judgment.   . O |
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Post by kevin8715 on Oct 4, 2014 21:10:32 GMT -5
Tiirsys flowerweaver Harvested my molokai purple. Though I didn't get any tuber, in a 15 gallon pots. Well anyway PM me your address. Monday or Tuesday I am sending them. If anyone else wants some, PM so I can take cuttings.
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