Re: [CH] disappearing varieties
Marc Winterburn (marcw@iinet.net.au)
Sun, 6 Apr 2003 10:33:02 +0800
Hi All, Life goes on the clean up continues. I am now planting winter
veggies with the exception of beans and corn which I am planting in hope.
Next season I intend growing early chillies by putting my rows under cloches
to start them. It would be fairly easy to leave whole rows under protective
covers to impede X pollination. Check out the pictures on this page
http://www.allsun.com.au/GardenClip.html .In the bottom two pictures the
product called geo 20 is very similar to the type that I have tested for two
years now with good results. Mind you its not fire proof. Weather today is a
mild 29 C. More rain forecast for Tuesday Wednesday when the tail of Cyclone
Inigo starts to clip us. http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDW60281.shtml Its
still about 2800 kms nth of us but the rains get pushed down by the jet
streams and hopefully whammo full rain tanks.
On the seed saving note Dave if there are any particular lines you wish
saved contact me and I will gladly devote a covered row to them. I can even
easily segregate sections of the row to different types.
Does anyone have a hot giant jalapeno, does such a thing exist?
Planning for the smokehouse construction is well under way as are the house
plans for the new block across the road. WE are building a pole house about
12' up in the air to catch those elusive sea breezes called "The Fremantle
Doctor". Living 20 miles from the coast they tend to get pushed up over the
top of us and its amazing how much cooler the sea breezes are when standing
on the shed roof. But my deck chair keeps sliding over the edge and my drink
gets spilt.
Kind Regards
Marc Winterburn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Margaret Lauterbach" <melauter@earthlink.net>
To: <Chile-heads@globalgarden.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2003 5:01 AM
Subject: [CH] disappearing varieties
> Dave, do you grow any of your own seeds? I wonder if you could contract
> with growers to grow OP varieties for you. I've obtained many varieties
> via seed swapping, but I have few whose lineage I tried to
> restrict. Perhaps with a concerted effort at growing true, growers could
> supply enough seed for commercial use. I hate to see varieties of good
> chiles disappear. Margaret L
>
> Hi Brent and everyone else:
>
> I 'm always on the lookout for new seed varieties to offer and I'm
> convinced that
> Asia has basically abandoned older Open Pollinated varieties and gone
> Hybrid. I
> have a beautiful seed catalog from Tokita Seed Co Ltd of Nakagawa Japan
and of
> the 11 varieties listed, 10 are F1 hybrids. The one open pollinated
variety is
> Santaka. The catalog is a couple of years old, so I don't know if Tokita
> still offers
> Santaka. The english version of their web site only mentions varieties of
a
> couple of
> other veggies. I do have a source for Santaka and offer it at my web
site.
>
> I've run into the same problem trying to find OP varieties in China and
> India. While I
> don't have an objection to F1 hybrids and even offer a few varieties, I've
> always
> been a fan of people being able to save their own seeds. The other
problems
> with
> hybrid varieties is that they often aren't around for very long unless
they
> sell
> extremely well and of course they cost about 100 times more than OP
> varieties. I'm
> extremely concerned about the possibility of Genetic Modification of
> Peppers. While
> I'm not aware that it's been done, it's certainly in the mission
statements
> of a lot of
> big seed companies.
>
> Dave Anderson
> TLCC
> http://www.tough-love.com
>
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