Topic: First pea pods

[galina]

I have done a little dabbling in pea breeding and got a pea with red pods, just right at the end of the season.  Fingers crossed for seeds, it is getting very mildewy here.

First photo is how the pea pod starts to form, mostly yellow with just a little red, later the red colour spreads over most of the pod.  The variety is a mangetout, but I don't know whether the red pod colour stays the same after cooking.  This is a very late plant and there won't be any tasting, just hope I can get a few seeds.

[pumkinlover]

Hope it tastes as good as it looks. Is it a first for red mangetout?

[galina]

Hope it tastes as good as it looks. Is it a first for red mangetout?

Hope they will taste sweet too.  I don't know whether it is a first, but I doubt it.  There have been several people saying they are trying for a red mangetout.  In any case, it is only just the first appearance of red pods here and years away from a stable new variety. 

[Silverleaf]

Yay, that's red all right! Great work. :)

Can I ask what the parents are?

[galina]

Yay, that's red all right! Great work. :)

Can I ask what the parents are?

Parent was a purple podded F1 pea cross.  Started off with Court Estate Gold and Shiraz.  Any yellow podded mangetout or snap pea potentially works, like Golden Sweet, or Opal Creek and any purple podded as the other parent for example snap pea 'Sugar Magnolia' or 'mangetout Purple Pod', but when starting off with a purple shelling pea, say Blauwschokker - there are fewer chances to find a red mangetout in the F2 or F3 generation and more plants are needed to find 'the one'.  All good fun and the ones that are not the right one, are still very edible, nothing lost there. 

[Silverleaf]

Shiraz x Golden Sweet is one of my plans for next year. :)

[Jayb]

These look gorgeous, well done you 

[galina]

These look gorgeous, well done you 

Thank you Jayb.  Now that the pods are getting more mature (or it could have to do with the lateness of the season), the pods have gone paler coloured, more pinkish than red, but a dusky pink not a bright pink.