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Quote from: Paulines7 on June 19, 2014, 14:15:01Beautiful flowers! I love the salmon and pale blue. Are you coming to the A4A get-together at Walsall Allotments next month? I would love to hear more about your pea experimental crosses. Hmm. I don't know anything about the get-together. Unfortunately I don't think I can spare the money to get public transport down there (and I don't drive). Shame, because it's only maybe an hour's drive from Chesterfield. :(
Beautiful flowers! I love the salmon and pale blue. Are you coming to the A4A get-together at Walsall Allotments next month? I would love to hear more about your pea experimental crosses.
Well here's a new flower colour for you!
Quote from: Silverleaf on June 19, 2014, 16:59:30Well here's a new flower colour for you!Wonder what it will look like today. Very elegant. How would you describe the colour - ivory?
Quote from: Silverleaf on June 19, 2014, 14:37:23Quote from: Paulines7 on June 19, 2014, 14:15:01Beautiful flowers! I love the salmon and pale blue. Are you coming to the A4A get-together at Walsall Allotments next month? I would love to hear more about your pea experimental crosses. Hmm. I don't know anything about the get-together. Unfortunately I don't think I can spare the money to get public transport down there (and I don't drive). Shame, because it's only maybe an hour's drive from Chesterfield. :(Details of the get-together is here: http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/smf/index.php/topic,77616.20.htmlWe had a lovely time last year. We all provided something for the lunch table while Betty, Shirl and an allotment friend kindly provided teas, coffee and cold drinks. If you wanted to come, maybe someone from the Chesterfield area could give you a lift.
I love the purple flowers of “Carouby de Maussane”, also their huge sweet flat pods that I have been picking, but I guess these are not part of your esoteric experiments?
Quote from: artichoke on June 21, 2014, 20:34:10I love the purple flowers of “Carouby de Maussane”, also their huge sweet flat pods that I have been picking, but I guess these are not part of your esoteric experiments?Afraid not, I don't have that one!What I'm growing this year: Telephone, Golden Sweet, Salmon Flowered, Elisabeth, Sugar Ann, Sugar Bon, Jeyes, Waverex, and some experimental material (12 varieties from the USDA and JIC which have number codes, so I've nicknamed them after characters in my favourite board game - Absolute Zero, Bunker, Fanatic, Haka, Legacy, Ra, Scholar, Tachyon, Tempest, Unity, Visionary and Wraith). I'm going to add another experimental pea too, but I haven't decided on a name for it just yet.
Sorry about the Legacy problem. These experimental lines you have been able to get from the seedbank are not very uniform, are they? At least you got another variety with the same flower colours.
Galina, have you tried crossing Elisabeth with Salmon Flowered?
Did you cross Salmon Flowered with Elisabeth, and then cross the resulting F1 with Sugar Magnolia?Or did you do Elisabeth x Sugar Magnolia first, and then cross that with Salmon Flowered?
Quote from: Silverleaf on June 24, 2014, 23:08:14Did you cross Salmon Flowered with Elisabeth, and then cross the resulting F1 with Sugar Magnolia?Or did you do Elisabeth x Sugar Magnolia first, and then cross that with Salmon Flowered?I already had the F1 cross Elisabeth x Sugar Magnolia which I'd made previously. Last year I used pollen from this cross to make a further cross using Salmon Flowered as the female. I'm fairly sure I have the cross Elisabeth x Salmon Flowered but I'm not sure if I've sown it or not, I'll have a look when I get the chance.