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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At the 3:40 mark, Mark, from Self Sufficient Me shows an easy build for a corn kernal remover with PVC pipe and 4x roofing screws.
I screwed up my hands trying to take off the kernels off of my nitrogen fixing corn by hand. The dried kernels ripped off portions of my skin.
Next time I’m definitely doing this.
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A recent video of Walter Goldstein, quoted by James White in the GTS course “how microbes help local adaptation”, on his corn breeding.
His OP (equivalent of an evolutionary population, or a modern landrace but with broad adaptability, not an adaptation to a specific place) made out of his 19 hybrids is doing as well as his hybrids, and conventionnal hybrids, but with a much better nutrient profile, notably thanks to endophytes which progressively colonised his corn in his zero input fields.
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Longer version of the same conference but with a very passionate Q&A session at the end :
Another passionate person, talking about corn and at the very end of the video (33mi45sec) about his “modern landrace” or “evolutionary population” or what he call “synthetic OP population”… he also recalls ancient practices of the Hopis to cross corn of different populationsregularly
