Branching Out's Seeds and Sprouts

[P Suckling]

Here too (thanks for telling me about the post Decoy). Showing sweet pea Enigma which is cream with pinkish red edging that later turned more and more red. This photo is from last year, but I had exactly the same this year. Early flowers were cream, later ones almost solid red. At first I thought it was an inverse of the flower colour, hence the labelling on the photo, but it seems to be another mechanism that causes the change.

Branching out, I harvested seeds separately, by the way, and the seeds from the red flowers also started cream white and turned red later, just like the seeds from the cream white pods did.

 

[Branching Out]

Here too (thanks for telling me about the post Decoy). Showing sweet pea Enigma which is cream with pinkish red edging that later turned more and more red. This photo is from last year, but I had exactly the same this year. Early flowers were cream, later ones almost solid red. At first I thought it was an inverse of the flower colour, hence the labelling on the photo, but it seems to be another mechanism that causes the change.

Branching out, I harvested seeds separately, by the way, and the seeds from the red flowers also started cream white and turned red later, just like the seeds from the cream white pods did.

Thanks for sharing this-- it's a fascinating anomaly, and perhaps more common than one would think. Gorgeous blossoms on your sweet pea plant!

 

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Finally got my nasturtiums from cuttings in the ground yesterday (the ones I mentioned in my June 26th post,) and a couple of them are already beginning to bloom in shades of yellow and orange. Not all of the cuttings took, but those that did have strong roots.

 

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You know it's high summer when you start mulching with massive zucchinis!

 

[ducks4you]

SO jelly!! Btw, I have also direct seeding nasturiums and for their size they can spread to 4 ft diameters.

 

[Shades-of-Oregon]

Nasturtiums are a fav annual to grow in the PNW. Once the soil warms up to 60 degrees it’s time to plant and boom they are fast a furious growers.
I have read the flowers can be eaten in salads or sugared on cakes. Never tried it .

 

[Dahlia]

Finally got my nasturtiums from cuttings in the ground yesterday (the ones I mentioned in my June 26th post,) and a couple of them are already beginning to bloom in shades of yellow and orange. Not all of the cuttings took, but those that did have strong roots.

Oh I love nasturtiums! They are such happy and cute flowers!

 

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This spring I sowed an entire packet of 25 seeds of Worry tomato. It's a 60cm(2') tall dwarf cultivar with thick rugose potato-leaf foliage that produces gorgeous medium-sized orange striped beefsteak fruits. Once the seedlings developed I noticed that there was one plant that looked different from the rest, and I decided to grow it out. Most of the Worry tomato crop ripened a few weeks ago, and yesterday I harvested the first ripe truss of from the anomaly plant. It produced the most striking elongated slender fruits, with 13 tomatoes on the truss. 12 of the tomatoes are nice and small at around 12-15g each so the entire truss fit into the palm of my hand; one tomato of the group is larger, and about twice as big as the others.

Now if I could just confirm which variety it is. The 'Worry' family was created by Craig LeHoullier, by crossing Speckled Roman with Wherokowhai. Worry is a stable cross-- but could this one plant be a rare off-type?
Speckled Roman: https://www.saltspringseeds.com/pro...fOJxjJyklyxDYqkH-o8no64tg7SsYZFKkcd3y7Xni8eDF
Wherokowhai: https://victoryseeds.com/products/wherokowhai-tomato

The Worry tomato seeds that I purchased were grown for Annapolis Seeds at Twisted Brook, and it's also possible that a stray seed from another cultivar ended up in my seed packet. Twisted Brook grew out a similar looking tomato called Candy Sweet Icicle, but I believe the fruits of that one are a much larger Roma and typically 30-50g: https://annapolisseeds.com/products/candy-sweet-icicle-tomato
This photo of Candy Sweet Icicle shows what looks like a potato leaf plant, with a very different style of truss. The anomaly plant in my garden is about 1.2m tall (4') and has small fine regular leaf foliage. https://www.tomatofifou.com/en/produit/candy-sweet-icicle/

Whatever tomato it is I love it!

 

[digitS']

"Anomaly," that's a cute name . Altho, as you gain a better understanding and a history with it, you may decide on something else.

"Worry?" That is a little deterring for a gardener like me who doesn't like any struggles with plants . Happy plants, Happy gardener . I had a mystery from Bloody Butcher seed. Un.for.tun.ate name there, despite being a nice tomato and a regular here. The mystery had just nothing special about it.

A gardener sent me seed that was supposed to be Woodle Orange but it wasn't orange! DW liked it and after a number of years, it threw a yellow offspring. It wasn't as big as Woodle is supposed to be. A TEG gardener suggested "The Witz" as a name . I'd better be growing it again soon to keep the seeds fresh.

Craig and his partner Carolyn Male came up with the Cherokee Purple OTV that I grew for a number of years. Earlier than the regular CP and grew well. It was also a hybrid with an unknown parent but stabilized.

Steve, with another 4 qts of pasta sauce this AM for the freezer