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Post by Bella on Dec 12, 2016 16:39:00 GMT -5
Hi,
What type/variety of rice seeds did you try? I am always on the look out for varieties that I may not yet have for sale and trade.
Right now, I have several varieties on hand; One variety has an exceptionally short season and can be grown Highland (without standing water) or Lowland method (with standing water).
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Post by steev on Dec 13, 2016 0:57:48 GMT -5
Pretty damned ambitious, altogether.
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Post by steev on Dec 13, 2016 3:57:47 GMT -5
Wow! I think we'll be glad for your energy.
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Post by richardw on Dec 13, 2016 13:28:06 GMT -5
Hi William , great to have another like minded gardener here. I like what you say - Further traditional peoples traded seed and genes which allowed gene flow. This is what i try and tell other gardeners here in NZ who close there minds off to non-heirloom varieties, its amazing how defensive some people can get when you talk of inbreed heirlooms, some are just not able to think laterally enough to see that landrace breeding goes right back to the early domestication of the heirlooms that they're trying to defend. |
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Jan 3, 2017 10:02:03 GMT -5
Welcome! Exciting to see someone new with an active imagination. Nice to see another person from a Rocky Mountain climate.
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Post by templeton on Jan 3, 2017 15:46:29 GMT -5
Oh the trouble with peas! ... Now I just need to figure out how to cross the three kinds of peas together to get the segregating population I need for adaptation... Peas are easy to cross by hand. I can get two generations a year here, start early with a few plants, do the manual crosses, then sow the green seed when its mature and get a second seed crop over summer/autumn. With around 6-7 seeds per pod, getting 5 or 6 pods off a F1 plant, with a dozen plants you get plenty of seed to assess in the F2 plants next year. you could even try crossing the F1 plants with each other. If you want combos of 3 varieties, grow A, B and C. Do three crosses AB AC BC (if you aren't concerned about mitochondrial DNA the pollen donor doesn't matter). Grow 2 or 3 F1 plants from each cross, and cross them together. AB X BC, AC X BC, AB X AC. Grow out these multi cross F1s the next year, making sure you grow a few from each multi-cross. bulk the seed and then start selecting. You'll have so much diversity you will go cross-eyed. If you can't get two crops a year, get a seedpal fromn elsewhere to do the 2nd growout for you, or use a greenhouse. Or maybe growlights, but i haven't tried them myself. It's only for one generation or so and speeds up the process so you can get selecting earlier. T |
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Jan 18, 2017 4:56:12 GMT -5
Arrowleaf Balsamroot- [...] The plant is completely edible, seeds, leaves, roots, flower stalks. I've heard that rumor for years. What I tried to eat was not edible to my modern taste buds. |
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Post by andyb on Jan 18, 2017 12:00:29 GMT -5
Arrowleaf Balsamroot- [...] The plant is completely edible, seeds, leaves, roots, flower stalks. I've heard that rumor for years. What I tried to eat was not edible to my modern taste buds. The flower stalks are pretty good if you peel the fuzzy skin off first. They still have a pretty distinctive taste that way, but it's not overpowering. I've been eating them since I was a kid. |
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Post by farmermike on Mar 19, 2017 21:23:05 GMT -5
My California strain Yerba Buena may possibly be alive (and Montana hardy if so). is one of my favorite plants! That would be cool if it was hardy in Montana. Did you grow that from seed? It grows wild in the woods where I live, and many years ago I transplanted some into my garden. Ever since I've been taking little pieces of it with me every time I move. It propagates so easily by rooted vines, that I've never tried growing it from seed. |
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Mar 22, 2017 16:51:06 GMT -5
William: I love the Earthway seeder! Today I was feeling frustrated with having so many different varieties of tomatoes cluttering up my space, so I started dumping packets into a common lot of seed. I accumulated about 1/2 cup of seeds that way. Figure that they'll work great for screening for frost tolerance and direct seeding.
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Post by steev on Apr 9, 2017 23:54:01 GMT -5
Damn right! I got a farm you can come weed it out of.
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Post by steev on Apr 10, 2017 10:53:14 GMT -5
I only address my weeds with Anglo-Saxonisms, as they deserve.
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Post by steev on May 1, 2017 22:04:39 GMT -5
Yeah; tilling is a priority, since it takes, at least, two passes to ensure reasonably safe planting; reclaiming fallowed ground is a bitch, but one must struggle against entropy. The notion that humans have conquered the environment is laughable; Nature bats last and She swings the heaviest bat.
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Post by richardw on May 23, 2017 14:31:27 GMT -5
I only address my weeds with Anglo-Saxonisms, as they deserve. I'm with you on that one, they are only bloody weeds |
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Post by richardw on May 23, 2017 14:36:34 GMT -5
So William are you separating the different Zea mays varieties or are ya doing a cross? |
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