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Post by ottawagardener on Nov 6, 2017 7:20:35 GMT -5
I'm planning on doing a few crosses with Beta vulgaris maritima all going well. It seems that the consensus is that I'll have to grow then store the pollen to cross with the other types of beets. I'm thinking of holding beets/swiss chard/perpetual types then planting them out consecutively to get the right flowering time but maybe that's a bit too much work.
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Post by diane on Mar 28, 2018 11:34:24 GMT -5
I've read about the contamination of French sugar beets being grown for seed production by wind-blown pollen from wild beets along the shore.
The wild beets are annuals, but the cultivated sugar beets are biennials. The resulting hybrids are annuals. I suppose
the roots don't get very big if they are going to bolt early, so they'd be useless for sugar production.
I don't recall any details about timing of the pollen, but obviously there was a natural overlap.
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