Cambrian explosion
Apr. 14th, 2023 01:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
greenstormPut 144 sprouted apple seeds into cells last night. 48 were seeds from my trees (crosses between a transparent, a very nice big eating crab I think, and the really fragrant crabapple with miniscule fruit since there's nothing else around here), 24 were Arkansas Black mothers, open pollinated, from Revelstoke. The rest were various things from Skillcult/Steven Edholm's 2022 season, including early mixed seeds, October mixed seeds, Sweet Sixteen crossed with a red flesh pollen blend, Muscat de Venus open pollinated, a mix of red fleshed open pollinated apples, and by far the most prolifically germinating which is Wickson open pollinated. Keep in mind that open pollinated from Edholm's orchard means they likely crossed with something very very interesting.
The rest of the seeds are still in their bags awaiting germination, though there are a ton of my local seeds that have germinated that I still need to pot up. Interesting about the local seeds, some of them have pink/red on the radicles. I wonder if that will translate into red in the plant, and if so if it's from the big eating crab or maybe from cross-pollination with the fragrant tiny-fruited crab?
It's just all so neat!
The rest of the seeds are still in their bags awaiting germination, though there are a ton of my local seeds that have germinated that I still need to pot up. Interesting about the local seeds, some of them have pink/red on the radicles. I wonder if that will translate into red in the plant, and if so if it's from the big eating crab or maybe from cross-pollination with the fragrant tiny-fruited crab?
It's just all so neat!
