Yea… They got his own ecosystem there. They need his own bee hives on the greenhouses to get pollinization.
In canary islands is plastic shadow cloth instead of transparent plastic.
Hello everyone. I’m curious how this project has gone so far this year and if you will continue to collaborate next season.
Hi Malte,
I’m not certain yet, but, a few people have been keeping in contact about how it has been going, whereas the majority of people have been totally silent, which is quite worrying. I’m hoping they are just busy and that it will go well by the end of the season, but, if most people don’t get back to me and don’t send seeds back then I will have to think how to proceed next year. I would like to do it again, but it was a lot of work organising the trial and sending out thousands of seeds. Not to mention creating the material in the first place! I have also worked on making a lot of seed for next trials. But…. I guess we will see how it goes…
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This mirrors my experience with other attempts at seed collaboration projects with relative strangers you’re not regularly in contact with. Something that I’ve learned is that most people need reminders to do the things they signed up for - planting the seed, evaluating the crop at the end of the season, saving seed (or tubers for seed growing next season). The fact is most of us forget a lot of the things we thought we wanted to do months before.
Did you write the people you sent seed to and asked how it went? I wonder what would happen if we simply tagged their names in this thread and asked.
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Yes, I am in contact with some. I’m using different forms of communication (but chose not to use this forum post for that). It was by email that very few responded. It was a group email - I may write individually to each soon though that takes a lot of time and I am super busy processing seeds these days! I must get to that though.
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Maybe in addition to the tomato selection there’s also a selection for ongoing collaborators happening at the same time!
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