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Post by oxbowfarm on Aug 30, 2018 7:02:21 GMT -5
Looks awesome reed. I want to try Zap chico husk tamales and see if the purple is enough to color the masa, or if it will all wash out by the time they are done. I'm somewhat concerned about this extreme husk genetics leading to more ear rot in my climate, since such deep layers of such tight husks HAS to slow drying of the ear.
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Post by oxbowfarm on Jul 1, 2018 12:38:02 GMT -5
A bit of tortured Googling and I came across a reference that called Oaxacan Oregano, orégano orejon, aka Wild marjoram- Plectranthus amboinicus. Whether or not this is correct I cannot say, but there you go.
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Post by oxbowfarm on Jun 29, 2018 14:41:47 GMT -5
I expressed I interest in this species awhile back but i don't remember many other people being interested in it then. Where can i get germplasm for it? Does someone already have some that is willing to share in the future? I'm interested in this species. Well, I got my seed from GRIN, they've got a pretty large collection. Currently I've got three accessions growing, but one of them looks to be on its way out. The other two are by all appearances thriving, and are actively flowering right now and I've got berries set on. So I could tentatively give you some seed this fall if all goes well and you remind me. Since you're in CO, you could always potentially go down to Mesa Verde and collect some yourself. Mesa Verde is the hotspot of collected genetic diversity of S. jamesii.
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Post by oxbowfarm on Jun 28, 2018 9:13:52 GMT -5
To further this discussion, Solanum jamesii has been found to possess freakish tuber freezing tolerance. This is suspected to be coupled with its freakish dormancy mechanism, jamesii tubers have been successfully sprouted after a decade in the fridge.
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Post by oxbowfarm on Jun 19, 2018 16:01:53 GMT -5
I have a Oaxacan cookbook that I like very much, but the author can be a bit vague about certain things.
One ingredient that is called for occasionally is Oaxacan Oregano. The author is quite specific in stating that Oaxacan oregano is a different plant than both Oregano AND Mexican Oregano. She doesn't give an alternate name in Spanish for the herb though, let alone a scientific name.
Does anyone know the species of this plant? I came up somewhat blank on a cursory Google.
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Post by oxbowfarm on Jun 15, 2018 8:15:08 GMT -5
If its a basjoo it might be able to overwinter for you. esoteric_agriculture says he doesn't really do anything to protect it, and it dies back to the soil for him and regrows from the corm in zone 6. I'm planning on doing some heavy protection for my cold frosty spot in zone 5. Here's his video on his plant.
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Post by oxbowfarm on Jun 15, 2018 6:41:26 GMT -5
I've got a mini New Mexico Landrace Pepper trial going, I've been interested in Canoncito for a few years. I decided to do a trial planting alongside some other New Mexican landrace strains available from NS/S. I have to say the Canoncito seed from Wild Garden was much higher quality in terms of germ and vitality than the NS/S seeds, I have about 20 Canoncito plants and only a handful of the other varieties, which include San Juan Tsile, Chimayo, Isleta, and Tarahumara Chile Colorado. The Tarahumara chile isn't actually a New Mexican pueble landrace, but it seems pretty similar. And after my great experience with Tarahumara corns, I'm ready to give anything Tarahumara a shot in my conditions.
I'm really interested in a pepper I can grow quickly outdoors and produce good yields of dryable red chiles. So I have high hopes for this group of peppers.
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Post by oxbowfarm on Jun 15, 2018 6:28:52 GMT -5
I recently rec'd in trade two Musa basjoo pups from esoteric_agriculture (props to him for some of the most beautifully packed materials I've ever gotten from any plant/seed trader). I've very excited to grow these, I am looking to become fully self sufficient in banana leaves for Oaxacan/Guatemalan style tamales. Right now they are still in pots in my greenhouse while I contemplate the right planting sites. I do get strong wind from time to time, so I'm trying to figure out a wind protected set-up for at least one of the plants to keep the leaves as intact as possible.
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Post by oxbowfarm on Jun 12, 2018 8:02:27 GMT -5
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Post by oxbowfarm on May 26, 2018 11:02:41 GMT -5
I am slow getting all my potatoes in the ground this year. I still have some tubers to plant from my 2017 TPS selections. The best performing TPS seed I had last year was from nathanp's Sarpo Mira X Bulk Pollenizer mix, Tollocan I think I got from trixtrax, and some "favorites mix" seed from Tree Leaves (who I don't think is on HG, or I don't know her screen name). This year I grew out about 30 plants from seed collected in the first year from the Sarpo Mira mix, also I've got TPS seedlings going from several different seed lines given to me by nathanp, Sarp Duro X Bulk, CIP 396286-7, SG Cross, Igorota X Tollocan. I also have a row of diploid TPS plants of Criolla Rosada and Chaucha Amarilla Larga from billw. And some Round Burgundy from wingnut ( don't thinks he's been on HG in a long time) Also three accessions of Solanum jamesii from GRIN, as well as some interesting potatoes BS 283, BS286, and GS 399 which is a Solanum verrucossum X S. cardiophyllum bridge clone . Should be a really interesting potato year, if I can get all the spuds in the ground.
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Post by oxbowfarm on May 22, 2018 7:50:07 GMT -5
Probably this thread is a waste of time anyway. It boils down to an argument with neither side willing to agree on the same facts, as far as I can tell.
I view the problem as evolutionary, human beings are capable of reason, but we respond primarily using our tribal ape brains. It is easier to believe a myth that appeals to our tribe instead of the truth, if the truth is an uncomfortable one. Tribal thinking was adaptive behavior when we were naked apes living in bands, now we are a massive technological society living in cities primarily, but we still think like chimps. Perhaps it will require a massive die-off due to war/climate catastrophe to weed out the atavistic tribalists and their old thought patterns and instincts. I cringe at the suffering that would require, but thats how species evolve I guess, most species don't get the "privilege" of observing their own mass selection.
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Post by oxbowfarm on May 22, 2018 7:38:07 GMT -5
I'd say not very high. V4 to V6
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Post by oxbowfarm on May 17, 2018 10:50:25 GMT -5
I have never grown the o'odham corn, but I had some amazing success with a very short season Tarahumara flint corn last year, it had great resistance to Northern Leaf Blight. Why a desert adapted corn would have such nice fungal disease resistance I don't understand. I'd personally try the corn and see, there's no real knowing till you try it.
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Post by oxbowfarm on May 15, 2018 14:39:16 GMT -5
toomanyirons Question. Do you dismiss the data suggesting the global climate is warming? Or do you disagree that human technology/resource usage driving up CO2 and Methane are the cause of the warming? Those are two distinct positions.
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Post by oxbowfarm on May 14, 2018 10:30:29 GMT -5
In terms of hominy, most of the "hominy" available as grits or whole hominy in the US is made from white dent varieties. I'm pretty sure most of the dried posole is dent as well. I suspect that is mainly because dent is way easier to mechanically harvest and process without so much damage to the grain, flour corn is pretty soft and fragile by comparison. Dent also makes really fantastic hominy/posole anyway.
In terms of cooking time, flints and dents take longer to boil up than flour corn, but I typically make hominy by cooking the corn with the lye for 20 or 30 minutes or so, till the pericarp slips, and then I leave it to soak for 8-24 hours. By that time, the corn is fully nixtamalized, and its also fairly well hydrated even if its a flint. I then rub and rinse off the pericarps, cob tips etc, and boil it to a good texture.
I guess it depends on your cooking method, but I haven't had any problems with nixtamalizing mixed populations of variable starch types in my corns, there are lots of flinty ancestors in my flour grex, and floury and denty ancestors in my flint grex. It doesn't matter.
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