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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Apr 29, 2022 17:22:39 GMT -5
Thanks for your support. It's been 11 months since 'Landrace Gardening' was published. Distributed 2200 copies already. I've went on 5 book tours. We made a video course about the book: growingmodernlandraces.thinkific.com/And a YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCG7DSSI_DlHlkD4JRhGxRWAIt's translated into traditional Chinese, and Hindi. Spanish is 3/4 translated. It's widely available in print and eBook. What a journey this has been. Learning how to publish and market a book was tough, and fun. The next one will be much easier.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on May 30, 2021 22:30:33 GMT -5
Nine years later, I finally wrote the book. It took me 4 months of day and night attention.
It is titled Landrace Gardening: Food Security through Biodiversity and Promiscuous Pollination. I released it this week, and it already sold 100 copies. I sure appreciate the enthusiastic reviews. I ended up printing in premium color, cause it tells the story much better.
Paperback copies are available from Amazon and Lulu.com
Hardback copies are available from Lulu.com
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Mar 27, 2020 20:09:04 GMT -5
The Cuzco that was shared around the forum some years ago was 96% pure with an introgression for day-neutral flowering. I think that yellow color is awesome!!! Definitely unique.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Feb 11, 2020 0:32:14 GMT -5
In my breeding work, aim for corn populations of 1000 to 5000 plants.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Oct 3, 2019 9:28:32 GMT -5
I continue to work on the Maximoss (maxima X moschata) project. I have separated the project into two populations.
The first population has fruits that look more like moschata, and have the classic moschata peduncle.
The second population has fruits that look like my landrace maxima squash, except that I have selected for skinny vines and dense, non-corky peduncles. Trying to get squash vine borer resistance into a squash with classic maxima/buttercup taste.
I see a few plants each year that look like they might be 3 species hybrids ((maxima X moschata) X pepo). Alas, seed set and viability have been very low, and the next generation haven't set fruit. I planted Tetsukabuto F1 in the spaghetti squash patch this summer, hoping that some crossing will occur.
This year, I grew Maximoss and Mospermia (argyrosperma X moschata) side by side. Hoping to encourage a different type of 3 species hybrid ((maxima X moschata) X (argyrosperma X moschata)).
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Jan 3, 2019 14:37:56 GMT -5
This corn in orange due to having a light red transparent skin over yellow kernels. This compares the yellow color of zeaxanthins to the orange color of beta-caroten.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Jan 1, 2019 21:31:26 GMT -5
It was 0 F (-18 C) this morning. It got up to 15 F (-9 C) during the day. Sunny, so that was nice.
I poured hot water around the door of the greenhouse so that I could pry it open. One of the doors has fallen off the rails, so it's basically immobile until spring when I'll feel like fixing it. In late afternoon, it was 55 F (13 C) inside, and I haven't even added the barrels of water that I intend for the spring. I skipped my run today. Didn't let the chickens out of their pen. The rabbits bop around outside, they don't seem to be bothered by the cold. It's a bitch keeping water available for the animals.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Jan 1, 2019 18:57:30 GMT -5
Over the past two years, I grew out about 10 wheat varieties for the Rocky Mountain Seed Alliance's Heritage Grain Trials. Four of them did well for me. I am intending to inter-plant five of them this spring to start working towards a wheat landrace. I think that they are all tetraploids. Hmm. I'm also growing Tim Peter's perennial wheat. I suppose that I aught to include that in the crossing block, so call it 6 varieties.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Dec 20, 2018 20:53:15 GMT -5
I'll go ahead and concede right now. The largest I can realistically hope for is in the neighborhood of 12 ounces. My climate is much more suitable for 8 ounce fruits.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Nov 19, 2018 11:17:45 GMT -5
oldmobie: That corn looks fine to me, just like it is. Shrinking and losing density is fabulous. More shrinking please! I'd let them dry very completely (Perhaps a month in a warm place.) Turn them from time to time if you like so kernels on the bottom are less likely to mold. I don't worry about mold on precious corn kernels. My soil/air is filled with mold anyway. If you wanna see how bad it is later on, after they dry, you could run a germination test on 10 kernels or so. I have saved seed plenty of time from cobs with sprouted kernels. That sometimes happens when it rains on partially dried cobs. The rest of the seeds end up being fine.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Nov 16, 2018 18:57:06 GMT -5
Ten bean mix is a great way to buy a lot of seed inexpensively, even if only 10% of them germinate. That's how my landrace beans got started.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Oct 30, 2018 18:41:12 GMT -5
I selected among these beans for bush habit, and short season, then added them to my general population. They are still there. The ones that I think of as Oxbow Farm Black/White Anasazi sure stand out... Thanks Tim. The black speckled horticultural bean came from the same cross.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Oct 24, 2018 14:18:29 GMT -5
I had Z diploperennis survive in a root pit one year. It didn't survive the next year. I tried overwintering it in a pot, but in a very bad place, and not taken care of well, so it didn't survive. It hasn't survived outside in USDA zone 4b.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Oct 10, 2018 12:50:28 GMT -5
Sorry about that. Thanks for the feedback. I think that registration is working now. Anyone wanna test it?
Yes I am the first volunteer admin for the forum.
We seriously evaluated using Discourse for the backend. Discourse was eliminated from consideration because it uses an uncommon database and software. We decided that it was better to build the forum using software and a database that is very commonly known by even beginning web developers, and that is typically supported by any web hosting platform.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Oct 9, 2018 16:21:33 GMT -5
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