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Post by nicolas on Nov 28, 2014 8:21:16 GMT -5
Yup very beautifully seeds Maybe the leaf pattern i've got from the florida accession is not representative, here a picture taken in florida
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Post by nicolas on Nov 28, 2014 8:22:37 GMT -5
And no, i havent made any crosses this year. Flowering the first year was not expected
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Post by Ted on Nov 10, 2015 0:51:16 GMT -5
Hey Folks. If you want a bit of immortality, send some seed of a polystachios population you've found with your name, address, and documentation describing it's location (GPS coordinates best) and habitat to: Ted Kisha Western Regional Plant Introduction Station 59 Johnson Hall Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164 Seed from each plant kept separate for population diversity analysis is best, but I'll take what you've got. Check out: www.ars-grin.gov/npgs/searchgrin.html and look at the accession area queries to see examples. I just collected some populations from Ohio, but we are in need of others from almost everywhere east of the Mississippi (Got a few from Florida) Thanks, Ted
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Post by galina on May 9, 2018 7:38:48 GMT -5
Isn't runner bean more or less perennial in warmer climates? Would't it be easier to search for a more winter-hardy P. coccineus and then cross it with P. vulgaris? Those are much closer related and I think I've read about crosses between those 2 species in the past. Can't remember where thogh... Yes they do cross now and then. I have seen it several times here in the garden. You can tell when you get a ph vulgaris with red flowers. However one of the reasons why ph coccineus is perennial is the largish storage root. ph vulgaris don't have that and none of my interspecies crosses had it either.
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Post by wonderer on Jan 24, 2024 9:57:56 GMT -5
Any success on that front in the last decade...?
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