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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Oct 8, 2018 23:47:38 GMT -5
I found a "happy accident" squash from my Hopi White seeds. I found a hybrid with 'Wild Pueblo' as my Wild Pueblo seeds were lost. I think that you mailed them to me. They are probably still in my seed vault.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Oct 8, 2018 12:55:44 GMT -5
Solanum chilense failed to thrive in my garden. I don't remember if it flowered.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Oct 8, 2018 11:08:43 GMT -5
The question of what maturity really means still lingers, at least to me. Ha! I direct sowed sweet potato tubers this spring. Some of them just continued growing from where they left off last year. So they would have a big bulge of new growth on the side of last year's tuber.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Oct 7, 2018 19:27:57 GMT -5
I got some BC1 fruits but left them all in the garden in hopes of volunteers- because the plants were completely indistinguishable from my neandermato clump. I have two phenotypes of S habrochaites in my garden. The giant plants, and the LA1777-type plants. I did a lot of staring at the BC1 population this summer, trying to discern any differences between LA1777-type and BC1. The only thing that really jumped out at me were the fruits with 3 locules.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Oct 7, 2018 14:30:34 GMT -5
I didn't find any red/yellow/pink fruits among the population which I am calling BC1 because I am wondering if it is 75% S habrochaites. However, in that population, I found fruits with 3 locules, which is a trait that might be expected to show up among the descendants of interspecies hybrids. Also among the BC1 population, I found fruits that are larger than expected for S habrochaites, and some that seem to have a slightly more yellow tint to them. S habrochaites BC1 population, fruits with 3 or more locules. The yellowish tint in the photo is a camera artifact. The fruits don't look yellow like that in real life. Solanum habrochaites and BC1 From Left to Right: Largest fruits from Solanum habrochaites BC1 Most yellowish fruits from S habrochaites and BC1 Fruits with 3 locules from S habrochaites BC1 Field run of fruits from S habrochaites selected during harvest for larger fruits. I didn't select S habrochaites or BC1 for taste this year. I selected fruits of S peruvianum based on taste.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Oct 7, 2018 12:09:39 GMT -5
Wondering how many accessions contribute to the Peruvianum complex we've been growing. I started with: The accession (mis)identified as S corneliomulleri LYC 4292 (unknown species) LYC 2669 LYC 2822 LYC 3088 A year ago I added S peruvianum from Peace Seeds. These have been grown in close proximity to S chilense, S habrochaites, S pennellii, etc. I haven't kept records of which accessions actually produced seeds for me, but I planted seeds from the original accessions several years in a row.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Oct 4, 2018 22:39:34 GMT -5
gilbert: Thanks for the grow report. I figure that if I smash my fingernail against the skin of a squash, and it doesn't penetrate, then it is mature, and the seeds are viable. If I can let them go longer, I do, figuring that they are like corn: The seed becomes viable a long time before it is mature. The first year I harvested moschata squash, the fruits were still very green when frost arrived, and they still managed enough viability to be the beginning of my landraces. The green/yellow/tan skins on the moschata squash don't seem to me to have much to do with maturity. The dark green pigment just takes longer to dissipate than the light green pigment.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Oct 1, 2018 10:35:22 GMT -5
The squash also had only cured for four weeks, so its flavor may not be fully developed. There is a paper that claims that Tetsukabuto, one of the parents of Maximoss "is not edible at harvest; it must be stored for several months before eating/marketing and should be marketed from December through March".
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Sept 30, 2018 11:37:28 GMT -5
My soil doesn't hold much water, and I am reluctant to irrigate more than twice a week. Thanks for the grow/taste reports. I irrigate my crops once a week.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Sept 25, 2018 2:04:21 GMT -5
Wonder how the golden tressette did for Joseph? That phenotype hasn't showed up in my garden. I don't know if that means that I didn't plant it, or that it failed to get established.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Sept 20, 2018 11:31:12 GMT -5
Corn seed is fully viable about a week before I would be picking it for fresh eating as sweet corn.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Sept 17, 2018 11:33:50 GMT -5
The teparies are adapting well already... For example while I was harvesting, some F2 plants were huge, with 50 pods per plant. I also noticed a plant that only had 2 pods. I still saved seeds from that plant. They went into the bulk seed, so the more productive plants will be swamping it out. Another example, would be the F2 plant that dried down much earlier than the others. There is some selection going on for anti-shattering. And heavy selection going on for being able to grow well in alkaline-ish clayish soil under irrigation.
I have been saving tepary seed in bulk, rather than growing out individual plants. It might be interesting to grow some as specimens to see if there are any traits that are particularly appealing to me.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Sept 15, 2018 7:30:36 GMT -5
Yep gotta scratch Cornelio-Muelleri and put in Arcanum? The seed that came to me was labeled as Lycopersicon glandulosum. That's a really old name, perhaps from before the peruvianum complex was split. It translates to corneliomulleri... The plants had an astonishingly curved anther cone. Only around 5% of my plants keyed out as arcanum (straight anther cone/style). I'm intending to munge everything together into "Peruvianum complex", and be done with the splitting.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Sept 14, 2018 0:39:34 GMT -5
The F1 and F2 tepary beans that I received from andyb really thrived this year. I kept them weeded and watered. They produced abundantly. This is the harvest from around a dozen plants. What the plants looked like before harvest. I pulled the intact plants, thew them on a tarp, then beat them with a stick. Followed up by screening and winnowing. The F3 seeds also thrived. I found a pink seeded tepary among them. A first for me. The pink, dark brown, and blacks came only from the F3. A few of the seeds have what looks like swirling color patterns. Perhaps I'll play with them to see if the trait is heritable. Link to high resolution photo.The following photo is about 50% of seed from my previous landrace, and about 50% of the now F4 seeds from Andy's hybrids. I am super pleased with the teparies now. Link to high resolution imageHere's what my tepary landrace looked like a year ago, before the addition of Andy's hybrids. Link to high resolution imageThanks Andy!
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Sept 13, 2018 11:52:36 GMT -5
So, if we have Solanum arcanum, it's possible things might be easier for us in the crossing department? Some of the plants that I'm growing keyed out as S arcanum. I'm not much trusting the species splitting in the S peruvianum complex.
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