My mason bees will rip the petals off of common beans, which makes them cross pollinate more. They can be very gumptious creatures. Also, when the biennials overwinter in your location, it makes them very easy to do breeding work on (I live in zone 6, so carrots are one of the easiest crops to save seed from).
I'm surprised what you say on radishes, because for me they are great, pull em up, taste an edge, and if it is good rip the greens off and put 'em back in the ground. The stress bolts 'em and they might not produce as many seed after the trauma, but still plenty enough to plant a patch per plant. More generally I think that taproot or bulb biannual are about as easy as you could ask for... just harvest the crop, and put the best back later. Even better most are small plants so you can fit many in a small garden, andd save just the champs out of many. So if I plant a single promiscuous tomatos among heirlooms that I like, but which could use some diversity, well then I know that father of any given seed is one of the liked heirlooms I'm trying to diversify. Is there a way to know if the promiscuous trait will breed true? My game is about trying to mix in some of my favorite traits (zingy, tart, indeterminate, red) with the tomatoes you breed (healthy as all get out, but sweet, exotic, fruity, and determinants). Ideally preserving the promiscuous trait so I can keep tweaking them.
Hey Ray-- great questions.. you should sign up for the online course and landrace discussion boards... I'll give you a coupon code if you promise to share some of your photos! just send me an email LandraceGardening@gmail.com, or you can go to ModernLandraces.com and scroll down to where the scholarship form is.
Some of them will be promiscuous and some of them won't be. It's a matter of selection IMO. Also, good tip on the radishes. I didn't know that you could get them to bolt immediately if you ripped all the leaves off and replanted them. I need to try that since they don't overwinter here.
wow, thank you. the information about tomatillos makes me think they would be a good choice for selecting for ecotypes and community assembly. maybe throw in a few ground cherry species and literally whatever too. i bet ground cherries are the same, especially the native ones.
I'm feeling drawn to sorghum. I like the strength of amaranth as a plant but the porridge has a weird texture since it's so tiny. Those nice big sorghum grains look more versatile. Saw some flatbread recipes using it that would be great, I want to grow bread in the garden but wheat looks like a pain in the ass. I wonder about a perennial grain of some kind.
oh and purely crossing tends to reduce yield purely because some wont get pollinated even with lots of bugs. parthenocarpic cuces always yield more for this reason.
imo biggest area not much info is seedling correlate to final plant. ofc very hard to tell but allowing early selection of seedlings would speed up breeding significantly. ofc problem with genetic diversity as you said: I have a single fruits Piquino peppers growing, 10 different seedlings and growth rate has been wildly different (perhaps expected from heirloom). the 2 tallest have grown much less foliage but flowered up to a month earlier than the rest, which are now producing far more foliage. what you want is both selection and diversity. difficult. seedling selection helps. As you say you want a "genetic group" rather than singular line.
Not in Utah, but if you're interested in finding other people who might be growing peanuts, should join the online community landracegardening.discourse.group
Always a pleasure to hear from Joseph.
Easy to get bolting under control. Thow away early bolting crops and save seed from the rest
My mason bees will rip the petals off of common beans, which makes them cross pollinate more. They can be very gumptious creatures. Also, when the biennials overwinter in your location, it makes them very easy to do breeding work on (I live in zone 6, so carrots are one of the easiest crops to save seed from).
Mason bees: "Hey Steve, these supposed to be this way?"
"Nah. That don't look right. Scrap em."
It's funny I like growing fava beans, andd love their flowers, but barely care to eat em. So they end up moving toward being ornimental in my context.
I'm surprised what you say on radishes, because for me they are great, pull em up, taste an edge, and if it is good rip the greens off and put 'em back in the ground. The stress bolts 'em and they might not produce as many seed after the trauma, but still plenty enough to plant a patch per plant. More generally I think that taproot or bulb biannual are about as easy as you could ask for... just harvest the crop, and put the best back later. Even better most are small plants so you can fit many in a small garden, andd save just the champs out of many.
So if I plant a single promiscuous tomatos among heirlooms that I like, but which could use some diversity, well then I know that father of any given seed is one of the liked heirlooms I'm trying to diversify. Is there a way to know if the promiscuous trait will breed true? My game is about trying to mix in some of my favorite traits (zingy, tart, indeterminate, red) with the tomatoes you breed (healthy as all get out, but sweet, exotic, fruity, and determinants). Ideally preserving the promiscuous trait so I can keep tweaking them.
Hey Ray-- great questions.. you should sign up for the online course and landrace discussion boards... I'll give you a coupon code if you promise to share some of your photos! just send me an email LandraceGardening@gmail.com, or you can go to ModernLandraces.com and scroll down to where the scholarship form is.
Some of them will be promiscuous and some of them won't be. It's a matter of selection IMO.
Also, good tip on the radishes. I didn't know that you could get them to bolt immediately if you ripped all the leaves off and replanted them. I need to try that since they don't overwinter here.
@@landracegardening5631 I'll shoot you an email here soon, I haven't taken many photos, but I can fix that here soon.
wow, thank you. the information about tomatillos makes me think they would be a good choice for selecting for ecotypes and community assembly. maybe throw in a few ground cherry species and literally whatever too. i bet ground cherries are the same, especially the native ones.
wildly varies by species. one paper found most of the annual phys. dont like crossing but the most of the perrenials did, regardless of flower.
Very useful; thanks!
You're welcome!
I'm feeling drawn to sorghum. I like the strength of amaranth as a plant but the porridge has a weird texture since it's so tiny. Those nice big sorghum grains look more versatile. Saw some flatbread recipes using it that would be great, I want to grow bread in the garden but wheat looks like a pain in the ass. I wonder about a perennial grain of some kind.
oh and purely crossing tends to reduce yield purely because some wont get pollinated even with lots of bugs. parthenocarpic cuces always yield more for this reason.
Which garlic varieties make seeds?
I get that common strawberries are polyploids like potatoes, but would diploid Alpine Strawberries be relatively easy to landrace?
Not in the us. That's how you start an infestation.
imo biggest area not much info is seedling correlate to final plant. ofc very hard to tell but allowing early selection of seedlings would speed up breeding significantly.
ofc problem with genetic diversity as you said:
I have a single fruits Piquino peppers growing, 10 different seedlings and growth rate has been wildly different (perhaps expected from heirloom). the 2 tallest have grown much less foliage but flowered up to a month earlier than the rest, which are now producing far more foliage.
what you want is both selection and diversity. difficult. seedling selection helps. As you say you want a "genetic group" rather than singular line.
haha turns out the seed was just contaminated, two were actually anuums somehow
No peanuts??
Not in Utah, but if you're interested in finding other people who might be growing peanuts, should join the online community landracegardening.discourse.group