Very interesting video about water management (he lives in the most arid section of the USA).
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This is also interesting! (One minute long.)
(Jaw drops.) Sometimes, you just think, “A plant can do that?!”
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I’m not so sure that I do believe that a plant can do that. 
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I am still clueless as to how-to landrace root crops. With the encouragement of this video, I might try in the fall or winter with carrots.
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Yes yes Alexis it’s all about replanting! Works with all root crops, but works also with other biannuals like cabbage! Look what we did in @Bruno’s fields this winter in order to cross his 5 usual strains of ball-headed cabbage: so that was post harvest, we simply dug out some plants which were intact, untouched by mould, and replanted them. Simple, easy. Was in mid-february.
It’s also what I did with carrots in January, after harvesting them all: selecting the best of each strain then replsnted them grouped! That’s it!
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Sorry for the delay in replying back to you. I didn’t know that you could replant whole plants, like you crops and cabbage like that and get re-established. I will try that method when we can get planting.
For anyone interested in watermelon breeding:
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