The first seeds have arrived BUT a lot of them got crushed by the rollers… Is there a better way to send seeds like these in an envelope, or is a package the only way to go? I tried some with bubble wrap, others with tissue paper, and others with some cardboard. These pictures were bubble wrapped. I would feel absolutely awful if most of these get crushed.
If anyone’s seeds get crushed please let me know. I’ll do what I can to make it right. At the very least if and when mine fruit I’ll send seeds again (hopefully not to their death…)
When sending bean seeds, I cut a “frame” of cardboard with a center hole in which the seeds sit (so the envelope is pretty flat overall because the seeds aren’t the highest part). That, plus a non-machineable stamp, helps get them where they are going without being crushed.
Hi. I’m Roman.
The creator of these hybrids (almost all) is Ingvar Flaxen (on Facebook). I helped test some of them.
Maybe he sent seeds to someone in GERMANY. I don’t know that.
TIMBO (TJ-4) and “Pulsar” have survived, they are the most interesting.. Especially TIMBO. Take care of them! TIMBO has a delicious tropical taste with velvety honey sweetness and quite large fruits (I had 160 grams). Pulsar blooms profusely, the fruits are smaller, yellow when ripe. Very tasty when fully ripe and have been lying for a long time.. Then they have a floral-strawberry flavor (Wild strawberry / Woodland strawberry).. Pulsar in other generations gives very similar results as the varietal plant. The flower has minimal differences. If anyone is interested, I can explain the differences later.
We will only test Timbo from seeds in the next generations in the future.
“2-10” is my own hybrid of incarnate (unknown pollination), has a very excellent taste of arils, an oval yellowish shape of the fruit. The taste is very different from the standard incarnate and is different from 7/5 and DK-21 (which are similar). From seeds it gives similar results.
#2 set a fruit. Interestingly this hybrids flower looks more like a common edulis except the center is lighter purple like a typical maypop flower. The fruit has a purple tint to it but seems to have stopped developing. Once I get the potted copies outside I’ll hand pollinate with incarnata pollen.
9 days in and one GT1 and my only surviving Bitop7/5 are showing. Seeds were soaked in GA3 for 24 hours prior to planting. On heating pad set at 82°F and humidity domed. The tray does get some sun in my greenhouse so I’ve seen the heating pad thermometer read 93°F a few times now which was a cause for concern, but apparently it didn’t sterilize them.
This picture was taken yesterday… maybe there’s more now.
Edit… Update!
Since last night I count 4 more sprouting, bringing the total up to 6 so far! However, I will say all of these are on the shady (cooler?) side of the tray, so no signs of life out of like Timbo yet.
). I had a few chats with Ingvar on FB.
