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Peas and seed saving
I wanted to try "Ne plus ultra" and Alderman this year. Both very old
varieties. How far apart would I need to grow them to ensure that if I saved the seed for next year it wouldn't be a 'mix'? Or is it not possible at all? Janet -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
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Peas and seed saving
In message , Janet Tweedy
writes I wanted to try "Ne plus ultra" and Alderman this year. Both very old varieties. How far apart would I need to grow them to ensure that if I saved the seed for next year it wouldn't be a 'mix'? Or is it not possible at all? Janet Peas (Pisum sativum) routinely self-fertilise, so the expectation would be that the majority of saved seed would come true. Hpwever I can't tell you to what degree cross-fertilisation also occurs. -- Stewart Robert Hinsley |
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Janet Tweedy wrote:
How far apart would I need to grow them to ensure that if I saved the seed for next year it wouldn't be a 'mix'? According to Suzanne Ashworth's "Seed to Seed:" Garden peas have perfect flowers, and are mostly pollinated before the flowers open. Having said that, the commercial standard for isolation is 100 meters, and if there is little other pasture for honeybees, they will visit pea blossoms, increasing the chance of crossing. Looks like unless you're going commercial, whatever spacing you can manage would work. If you're really a purist, which I'm not, you could tent the part of the row you want seeds from with Remay or whatever the floating row cover stuff is called across the pond. I've saved Sugar Snap pea seed from a row adjacent to Oregon Giant snowpeas with no visible crossing, and that certainly would be evident the next season. Gary Woods AKA K2AHC- PGP key on request, or at home.earthlink.net/~garygarlic Zone 5/6 in upstate New York, 1420' elevation. NY WO G |
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"Janet Tweedy" wrote ... I wanted to try "Ne plus ultra" and Alderman this year. Both very old varieties. How far apart would I need to grow them to ensure that if I saved the seed for next year it wouldn't be a 'mix'? Or is it not possible at all? I hope you have better luck than we had with those varieties, we eventually gave up planting them as the hot dry summers stopped them growing and they failed to provide peas in any quantity. We only grow early peas now that are finished before the heat of summer. -- Regards Bob H 17mls W. of London.UK |
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In article , Bob Hobden
writes I hope you have better luck than we had with those varieties, we eventually gave up planting them as the hot dry summers stopped them growing and they failed to provide peas in any quantity. We only grow early peas now that are finished before the heat of summer. Strangely enough the gardener who recommended these two varieties had much more luck with them last year than other types she sowed! They didn't seem to suffer much she said. janet -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
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