Potato Onions For next year i have a lot of PO varieties and i managed to find a lot of true PO seed. I ordered seeds from Kelly Winterton and got 25 different accessions from the nordic genebank. I found 14 varieties in total but i have very few bulbs of each variety. One red type of which i only had 2 bulbs is probably lost because the bulbs were soft and half-rotten. For next year i will have to multiply all these varieties and grow out the seeds. A fun project, but a lot of work, too.
I weeded all my malus sieversii trees and i lost quite a few to what i believe was a combination of deer, rabbit and rodent attacks. I think i lost between one fourth and one third of the 426 plants i grew from seed. I discovered some visually very amazing and different ones in two of the six seed batches. I singled out several unique ones that i planted in my polytunnel to grow them properly. I didn't have the time to protect the 426 as i would have liked to. All trees of the 4 other batches have basically green leaves. Here is one example. This is a very nice green leaved one. And another green leaved one. Already these two are different in leaf colour and shape. But i selected them from the batches where all had green leaves in order to be sure to have genetic diversity. I kept 18 seedlings in the polytunnel that contain some of every batch. The following ones are very special and unique and display many variations of red and green and even other colours. One seedling with nice
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