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Post by blueadzuki on Mar 26, 2020 14:07:10 GMT -5
Oh assuming you meant Cuzco Giagante (the quarter sized white kerneled corn). Cuzco de Huactay (Mountain Cuzco) can be yellow.
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Post by blueadzuki on Mar 26, 2020 14:04:12 GMT -5
I have a whole BAG of Cuzco and then some and could get more (given that bodegas are immune from the lock-down). Th problem is that 1. Cuzco itself isn't usually yellow (though I have a handful that are yellowish) and 2. Pure Cuzco won't grow around here, or pretty much anywhere except the Andes region. I think what you were asking was if anyone had any of whatever that mix was (i.e. a part Cuzco that could actually grow here) and I don't have that.
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Post by blueadzuki on Mar 9, 2020 18:43:10 GMT -5
Yes that would be it. Different corns differ in the hard/ soft starch ratio and the position of the deposits of each even on the same ear (which is, I suppose why "flour/flint is it's own type from either flour or flint, and how you can have "cap corns" (corns with a similar starch ratio to a dent but no dent itself.). Yellow flour corn would have to have a thin layer of hard to be yellow.
The purple endosperm gene however, is in the soft starch. It's rare, as I said, but it is there.
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Post by blueadzuki on Mar 8, 2020 18:18:54 GMT -5
Oops you are right, the yellow is in the hard endosperm, not the aleurone. My bad
A yellow pericarped corn could theoretically exist. If it can be red and orange I imagine there could be an orange pale enough to pass as yellow. The way to tell of course would be to peel the kernel. If it was in the pericarp, the kernel inside would be white.
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Post by blueadzuki on Mar 8, 2020 8:48:36 GMT -5
atilgan, You are the person to develop the world's first yellow flour corn! Technically no. The Andean corns have had a yellow floury version since time immemorial (you can buy it in bags at any good Latin supermarket). It's just that, as Andean corns are difficult to grow outside of Andean conditions, I did not think they were a viable option to recommend. And reed I think you mean aleurone, not pericarp. Pericarp is the skin on the kernel, aleurone is the middle layer(s) and where yellow resides. And who knows. There is a rarish gene that can make the endosperm of corn turn purple, maybe there's one for yellow as well.
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Post by blueadzuki on Mar 7, 2020 18:14:19 GMT -5
so is Rosari linkThere are a LOT of Native seed SEARCH corns with yellow kernels in the flour/flint section, but based on the pictures most of them are closer to the flint side than the flour side.
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Post by blueadzuki on Mar 5, 2020 18:13:40 GMT -5
Different insect. The ones they are referring to are WATER stinkbugs, which you find in places like Asia.
I think the real issue is CATCHING the bugs. That's isn't always easy with locusts and grasshoppers.
The real problem, from what I understand, is people poisoning the bugs, collecting them and THEN selling them for food. It makes people sick and turns then off of eating insects.
I understand India has a similar problem with rice rats.
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Post by blueadzuki on Feb 27, 2020 21:09:18 GMT -5
It's probably a no go (given that they are in Thailand and hence, are probably long season) but I should point out there are two sellers on Ebay who are offering purple podded wing beans. linklink
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Post by blueadzuki on Feb 24, 2020 20:44:25 GMT -5
wrinkle is recessive
orc is incompletely dominant so orangexyellow=light orange. And while I have not seen it personally I imagine orangexgreen=brown
I've never heard of a red pea (unless you mean with a red seed coat, which is it's own genetic mix)
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Post by blueadzuki on Feb 23, 2020 15:08:32 GMT -5
And that's not counting the fair number of survivalist type people whose plan for how to get food (as far as I can tell) is "Use my guns to take it away from someone else". I'm no fan of guns but even I can see that the "get rid of guns" argument sort of falls apart in a case where society has as well.
But beyond the question of how many people don't know how to shoot a gun, how many know how to shoot a bow and arrow (handy for when the bullets and gunpowder run out) How many people know how to MAKE a bow and arrows completely from scratch (and I mean literally from scratch down to knapping the arrowhead)
The problem with thinking "what if it all goes down" is you have to imagine what happens if it ALL goes down.
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Post by blueadzuki on Feb 23, 2020 0:30:52 GMT -5
Well, some lizards and reptiles manage it, but we're probably too complex. Plus you get an offspring with identical genes (barring swaps and mutations). And while XO is VIABLE it's also STERILE.
And if the robots are our successors let's hope they will be kinder to their ancestors than we were.
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Post by blueadzuki on Feb 22, 2020 23:00:17 GMT -5
Actually, the number's could get even lower. Since girls ALREADY outnumber boys at least 2:1 halving the number of available boys would mean that something like 75% of women won't be able to find a man (though given the decrease in emphasis on both marriage and monogamy, this number might not mean as much as it sounds)
The real question of course, is can we keep the planet in decent enough shape that there's still something left when our population begins to drop?
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Post by blueadzuki on Feb 22, 2020 16:35:17 GMT -5
Which is one of the problems you run into when trying to suggest something logical to decrease the population, like limits on family size. Once the number of permitted children drops below one per family (and most people think it has to drop much faster than halving every generation) you really can't go any smaller without talking eugenics. If not everyone can have kids then the question of WHO gets to comes into play.
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Post by blueadzuki on Feb 21, 2020 19:30:46 GMT -5
I think it could get even grimmer. If the rich and powerful see signs of the poor getting desperate enough to rise up, they may go proactive about "eliminating the problem" (and I don't mean through assistance).
There are already poor people in the third world auctioning off their organs for money. How long before someone starts deciding your extra organs are profitable assets and DEMANDING they be sold before allowing for financial assistance (or being confiscateable when you have debts).
Or a return to slave labor just for a tiny amount of food.
The rich only want the poor so long as they can either get resources out of them (goods/labor) or can use them as a market to get money (which is ultimately just another kind of goods). The moment you don't have anything they'd be happier if you weren't there. And automation keeps getting better and cheaper so the "labor" part is getting to be a weaker and weaker bargaining chip.
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Post by blueadzuki on Feb 21, 2020 13:04:26 GMT -5
We have lot of wild geese and turkeys, hope that continues as both are delicious. That would seem to depend on how orderly the future degradation is. If it gets bad enough there is a breakdown in the chain of authority (i.e. governmental collapse) or a change in attitudes toward conservation (which could happen with a government struggling to feed people). I could imagine a severe loosening of game hunting control. And if THAT happens I can easily see a lot of panicky hunters deciding that the most effective way to make use of their remaining resources of ammunition, gasoline (presumably a lot of the "survivalist" mentality people know it only has a few years shelf life) and freezing technology is to shoot everything they can when they can, and screw good game management. There are some people who think that the efforts of early humans during the Ice age led to the extinction of much of the worlds mega-fauna. I can easily see a total collapse resulting in another one. That being said, while I am no hunter, I do take note of the species of duck around here vis a vis their supposed table quality versus how hard it would be to catch them (most of the good ones only show up in the dead of winter so it'd be ice breaking and a kayak.)
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