Adzuki beans. I am happy that i managed to renew my adzuki bean seeds. I was going to throw them out but then i decided to make a last attempt and some of them sprouted. This is supposed to be a variety from the himalayas so it might be more cold resistant than ordinary adzuki beans. It grew well in my tunnel and now that i have multiplied the seeds, next year i can try and grow them outdoors. Should i manage to adapt them to growing outdoors here this would mean an additional species of bean plant for our vegetable gardens.
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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