Anyone have their grow lists for 2017 yet?
aftermidnight Zone7b B.C. Canada
7 years ago
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turns out my grow list isn't done yet. I want wacky hybrids!
Comments (4)Pam, I'll definitely be checking them out. if people on here wanna continue being generous, I'd rather go that route. but I am not at all opposed to buying seeds if I can't get the kinds I want via trade. MsPeppajo: I've never heard of onza roja, but in general the goal here is known hybrids, (preferably really hot ones), as opposed to mystery peppers. I do appreciate the offer though. speaking of hybrids, I was making thai pepper sauce earlier today, and in the process of de-stemming 150 pods, I noticed one had only 2 seeds in the whole pod. those of you who are familiar with thai peppers know that they're basically a bunch of seeds, with a thin coating of pepper. I've heard that sometimes a cross will result in much fewer seeds than normal. I tried to cross my thai with my brain strain earlier this year, but kinda gave up because most of the host flowers on the thai dropped. now I can't help wondering if this was one that didn't drop, or was the result of cross pollination with another one of my plants (they're anything BUT isolated). is it safe to assume if the goal is to get a few hybrids next year I should try to germinate those 2 seeds?...See MoreAnyone Have Their 2010 Tomato Grow List Ready Yet?
Comments (117)Oh, this is such an old thread... but at least I won't be the only one still posting in it! I was gifted a Sungold and a Brandywine (no idea which version) from a friend years ago, stuck them in a patch I dug out of the front yard... and they were amazing! I haven't been able to bear to eat grocery-store tomatoes since. But the intervening years have been focused on other things; my one attempt at gardening 3 years ago was a failure when I didn't find time to water (or weed) anything for three weeks at the end of June. Anyway, this year I finally have the right mix of time and space so I spent the winter reading up and dreaming, and... well, let's just say my family and local food shelf will have lots of tomatoes in August... Most seeds from SandHill, but the Sungold Select II and Green Zebra from Bakers Creek, and a handful are from cherrygal.com Cherry Types Blondkopfchen Sungold Select II (soooo excited to have snagged these!) Black Cherry Green Doctors Snow White Cherry (gift from SandHill) Hawaiian Mexican Cocktail "Regular" (I can never keep the beefsteak/medium/etc apart in my head) Brandywine, Sudduths Gogosha Green Zebra Black Krim Black Sea Man Rosabec Purple Calabash (gift from SandHill) Lucky Cross Potato Leaf "Other" Riesentraube (we'll see what tomato wine tastes like...) Yellow Pygmy Costulato Genovese When I got the two extra varieties from SandHill, I couldn't decide whether to jump up and down for joy (yay, two more flavors to try!) or despair - I spent weeks choosing my list, how could I fit 2 more?? But I decided joy was the right reaction. :) I'm sure it'll be more than a jungle in the yard this summer, but it'll be an edible jungle... and I have never been so grateful for the half-acre lot we have as this year. :) Good thing my husband is here to talk me out of cutting down our trees so I can have even more sunlight... Unfortunately, the cutworms have already been busy - but fortunately, although I only planned to grow 2 plants of each variety, I actually PLANTED 7-10 seeds... and almost all of them came up...and then I couldn't bear to cull since they all looked so healthy... so I ended up with lots of seedlings to give away. :) And to replace cutworm-killed plants. And then to give away some more! And still have replacements on hand in case my popsicle sticks don't do the trick with the cutworms... I'm just lucky Minnesota had an incredibly early and mild spring, my seedlings have been outside since the first week of March (with short breaks inside overnight until April) - there was no way I had enough grow-lights or space in the basement for them all! The seeds that I saved from those unknown Brandywines years ago still germinated three years later, so I'm really hoping to increase my seed from every one of these varieties this summer. Just need to cross my fingers and toes that I can get at least one tomato of each variety to survive and ripen enough to collect their seeds! Watching the cutworm decimation last week made me doubt I'll have luck that good, but hope springs eternal......See MoreMust have list for 2017
Comments (35)Thats what I hear Jo!!... Jeff at LOTG said he will have Viking Ship in next year's line up, so I am pretty excited about adding it finally... Understandably so, it was unavailable everywhere I looked this year. Fame Game is bred out of WI and is touted to be fairly stable (as streakers go)... from Northern Grown Perennials. I am so lucky to be in prime hosta real estate and have such awesome growers around me. It broke my heart that Foxfire closed years back....See MoreTrade list / wish list/ giveaway list, for Raleigh fall swap 2017
Comments (416)Am so excited to have drupes on the new Edgeworthia papyrifera that I got this spring. If I can catch them at the right stage of ripe and then get them to germinate ~a year from now, it will probably only be another decade before flowering. So why am I so excited? I don't know but have decided to just enjoy the moment....See MoreJamie 6a Dayton, Ohio
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