Thought I make some crude draft of what I have to share now that the Croatian meeting as coming. If @marcela_v can tag people that are coming so everyone sees this. I can send a package there hopefully by next week. Not all seeds are going to be available by then, but quite a lot. There are also lots of seeds from last year when I was a little too keen on saving seeds. Many F2s so better save more. Now there has been at least some selection. Don’t be shy. I can send a big package to Croatia and cost is based on weight so I can pack it as full as possible if there just is interest. Also smaller packages to individuals don’t cost that much that you would need to worry about it. The more growers, the better.
In no particular order, just what comes to mind.
Tomatoes: F2/F3/F4 (depending on the mix) mixes of domestic, domestic/pimpinellifolium, domestic/cheesmaiea, 50%domestic/25%pimpinellifolium/25%cheesmaniea, 50%domestic/25%habrochaites/12,5%pimpinellifolium/12,5%cheesmaniea.
No consistent LB tolerance, early.
Peppers, annuum: Domestic F2 (-24) mix and some half/quarter wilds. Also some pure wild/feral seeds of the ones I grew out from what I got from @polarca, but those are also some of the wilds in wild crosses.
Baccatum: F2 mix, 75%baccatum/25% praetermissum taller plants.
Tomatillo: F2 mix (mostly) sweet and green as separate mix
Ground cherries: F2 mix from last year and some of this years selection. I have some seeds to share from “huge” 3 lobed fruit if someone is really interested to see if it can be a source for big fruits. got probably 150-200 seeds and would like that most are grown out to see what comes out of it.
Eggplants: -24 F2 mix, haven’t saved a lot of this years yet and wont until later.
Sweet corn: sweetcorn from graincorn (will update that to my main thread shortly). Selected best producing plants (2-3 ears per plant), but otherwise only made some notes. Generally not much difference; fairly tall, some with tillers, some without, mostly no significant air roots and even those not that significant. Some are from my sweet corns that have been crosspollinated with the other most likely. There was some with high tilling.
Grain corn: -24 mix.
Bush beans: -24 mix
Pole beans: not many, but I separated some that had made their way to bush beans (so there might be some in -24 mix)
Melons: Several mixes, both older and newer. Even if years haven’t been successful it doesn’t need many fruits to produce surplus. Ask more.
Watermelons: Some seeds from this year and last. Possibly some mix from earlier seeds. Better get rid of them sooner than later.
Okra: two mixes from this year, fastest/most productive and rest that made some seeds. Pretty hard selection as only 6-7 plants made any seeds out of thousands sown. Some are from @marcela_v and some are what I have saved from kandahari pendi landrace (which wasn’t a landrace when got to me, but had some variability). From the latter I also have seeds from -24.
Sweet potatoes: I got some seeds, and it even looks like at least some are viable, But there isn’t really to share. I could send some (micro) tubers from those that I grew from seeds that were the first and/or most prolific to flower and likely reason why so many of the other varieties also made seeds. I can also send tubers of the varieties that flower freely or fairly well and made seeds this year. There aren’t really many micro tubers to share, but those look like they aren’t likely to survive long so better share them.
Some possible moschata x pepo or maxima interspecific crosses that happened when I didn’t have any male flowers available that I could see. I did try to look so carefully that it’s hard to see I missed, but possible orcourse. One of the fruits had mostly empty seeds and others just few seeds which could indicate that there was some problem with pollination supporting interspecific cross. I have earmarked some for @ThomasPicard, but if I open the last fruits there could be some to test for more people.
Basil: some seeds from -23, but those are mostly pure varieties with occasional cross to look for.
Carrots -24 mix, pictures of what I got from them to come shortly on survivor plot thread.
Parsnips: -24 mix.
There are also some older seeds from moschata, maxima, summer squash, cucumbers etc. Ask for more.
What I haven’t saved yet, but will have available later probably closer to spring;
Moschata; could say extra early/cold tolerant mix. Some sings of early female flowering trait, but seemed to be affected be weather (drought). Still probably there aren’t probably any moscahtas have gone through harder weather.
Maxima; grow out from last years survivor plot survivors. Not the most vigourous early on, but I’m thinking it might be due to late fruiting and hard conditions where the plants didn’t have time to get the full vigour. That should be sorted out now with these fruits having plenty of time to ripen. the plant were vigourous once they got over the early period.
Summer squash: Mix of some that I got from @marcela_v and @polarca with my own from last years survivors. I tried to hand pollinate them to have max variance.
That should be all and if there is something missing I’ll update it. Didn’t proofread it so excuse me if thereare mistakes
. Ping @malterod here you go. PM me when you can.