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Post by 12540dumont on May 30, 2012 18:48:40 GMT -5
Sesame keels over at seedling stage. Any suggestions? Anyone else grown this? Actively growing this?
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Post by jim on May 30, 2012 21:03:42 GMT -5
Do you mean damping off?
Ive grown sesame several times, sowing it in a pot and transplanting into cells before going to the garden...or direct seeding in cells....didn't have a problem with them....
They did seem to tolerate drying between watering really well, perhaps you kept them too wet?
Jim
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Post by 12540dumont on May 30, 2012 23:30:46 GMT -5
The seedlings looked great and healthy, and then deader than a doornail.
Didn't look like damping off. Perhaps too much water. I never killed anything by over watering before....hmm.
Damping off isn't too prevalent here. I haven't seen it in about 10 years, so that's why I was wondering. Thanks!
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Post by jim on May 31, 2012 13:50:22 GMT -5
Where are you at that damping off isnt prevalent.....are you direct sowing?
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on May 31, 2012 14:05:22 GMT -5
Where are you at that damping off isnt prevalent.....are you direct sowing? I also don't know about damping off, except that it's something that is read about on gardening forums. I'm growing in the Great Basin Desert. |
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Post by 12540dumont on May 31, 2012 15:17:11 GMT -5
Check my latitude and longitude and you'll see where I am.
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Post by jim on May 31, 2012 17:09:15 GMT -5
So....doesn't answer if you are direct sowing...
In the water plentiful! Great Lakes....
Jim
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Post by khumlee on Aug 16, 2014 17:08:50 GMT -5
Last year I try this crop. But rainy and cold spring and only two month of hot and dry summer, not enough for sesame ! Plants grow well but the flowers comes later in october, and it was to late for ripening the seeds. I had two line of sesame, one early maturing of a small size 2 ft non branched, and the another near 3-4 ft high and branched but the bloom is later. This year the season is a little bit better and see the beautiful plant, with capsules encouraged me to continued this project next year with my own seeds. The later variety show few bloom buds, and to increase the variablity and the adaptabilty to my sol and climat I go cross these two lines. Next year I try a black seed sesame too.  The two differents lines  blossoming  Capsules  |
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Post by templeton on Aug 17, 2014 0:40:09 GMT -5
A very pretty plant. Good luck.
T
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Post by 12540dumont on Aug 17, 2014 19:59:32 GMT -5
Have you actually gotten seeds from the seed pods?
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Post by khumlee on Aug 18, 2014 2:43:28 GMT -5
not yet, no seeds last year had well formed inside the pods
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Aug 2, 2015 2:21:47 GMT -5
Sesame is unbelievably exotic to me also... I looked up the taxonomy of sesame, and as far as I can tell, the only thing in the same order that I am growing are three mints... Sesame has taken on a whole new importance to me. One of the key philosophies of my gardening style is diversity... Not only within species but between species. If I can add a new family to my garden crops, that is exciting, especially in an order that is so sparsely represented. Here's what my sesame plants looked like a few days ago:  |
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Post by 12540dumont on Aug 3, 2015 13:21:39 GMT -5
Okay, I'm completely jealous. It appears that gophers like sesame more than sunchokes! In other words, I have no sesame left!
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Aug 3, 2015 14:02:10 GMT -5
I think that I'd sacrifice the sesame if something would eat the sunroot weeds for me.
My fall frosts are expected to start as early as 5 weeks from now, and the sesame isn't even flowering yet, so jealousy might be premature...
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Post by mskrieger on Aug 5, 2015 10:47:09 GMT -5
This is fascinating. According to Wikipedia, sesame seed is native to sub-Saharan Africa, and commercial sesame seed takes 90-120 days to grow a crop. Dry weather helps. So you have a fighting chance, Joseph. But it depends what photoperiod your sesame needs to flower, it sounds like. A lot of sesame seed is from Paraguay and Bolivia (dry, high-altitude equatorial growing conditions). But they grow a lot in the EU, too. Baylor U has a sesame growing guide here: baylor.agrilife.org/files/2011/05/sesamegrowerguide2008.pdfI looked at the GRIN sesame accessions. There are a lot, so I didn't go through all of them, but some from Korea caught my eye...might have a photoperiod better suited for your conditions. Where'd you get your seed? |
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