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.
Malus sieversii. This is my little three coloured malus sieversii apple when it was young. Now i am trying to multiply it by approach grafting. The ornamental value of this tree is off the charts. Incredible leaf colours. This was at the end of last year. Now i am approach grafting it onto another apple rootstock. I did the grafting on the 6th of march and plan to cut them off on the 6th of june. In spring the leaves are green with a little red on the edges but each year they then display spectacular colours. The problem is the plant is not very vigourous and we don't know what the fruit will be like. Here you can see that the rootstock makes larger leaves than the three coloured apple. I found this individual in 428 seed-grown malus sieversii. Malus sieversii is incredibly diverse genetically as you can see in the next picture. These are malus sieversii seedlings displaying huge diversity.
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