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No, I don't think it's anything to do with how dry the pods are, all the rest of the pods are purple except these 3.Purple podded peas - Desiree.Front pod is Green/purple mottled and back two from same plant are totally green.I am going to try and save the seeds, but there are only 2 in the mottled pod.For the record, Onward produced an average of 8 in a pod, Golden Sweet also produced up to 8, the Purple Podded - Desiree never seemed to have big enough pods, peas all squashed together, average of 5 to a pod roughly.
Quote from: Mortality on July 04, 2010, 15:07:44No, I don't think it's anything to do with how dry the pods are, all the rest of the pods are purple except these 3.Purple podded peas - Desiree.Front pod is Green/purple mottled and back two from same plant are totally green.I am going to try and save the seeds, but there are only 2 in the mottled pod.For the record, Onward produced an average of 8 in a pod, Golden Sweet also produced up to 8, the Purple Podded - Desiree never seemed to have big enough pods, peas all squashed together, average of 5 to a pod roughly.You are right this is nothing like the fading to green that you get on mature purple pods. This looks like a mutation on that part of the plant. Mutations are fairly common in peas. I have never seen anything like the half purple half green pod. Yes I would save the seeds and grow them out next year. Fascinating.I had a mutation to pink flowering one year. Just the one plant. And that mutation is fully stable. There are other mutations that only appear during the growing year and are not carried forward by the seeds. Thanks for showing us.
Hi, going back to look at the pea lists it seems I mis read a descriptionI read the following as having three pea pods which I mentioned above but I was not right,it actually readsClamart Trois Gousses...means triple pod. sorry I guess I read that quicklyHowever the triple ones I mentioned areTriple Treat ( has been known to produce quads)AristgreensTripletSnwebirdThe double podded ones were.... Now can someone tell me what heat units are in relation to peas please???XX Jeannine