Reply To: Cosmic Rays making Mutant Plants

  • BentNeedle

    Member
    October 18, 2022 at 4:55 pm

    Looking for “positive qualities” is how I ended up with so many different varieties of seeds in my collection! The trials this year were winter squash with just about every moschata I could find. The winners were Trombocino and Ramplicante and yes, this variety has very few seeds comparatively. Our spring crop of tomato plants had twisted leaves and we suspected Grazon as we had gotten a fresh load of dairy compost. Ended up pulling them all up and started new seeds of every heat tolerant variety I could find. Many of them survived the endless 100F temps here in Texas, flowered when it cooled down but fruit is sparse. We shall have our tomatoes by growing Tiny Tims in the house!

    As for the Grazon, it wasn’t as the pea and beans I tested were just fine and everything else we grew in the same soil wasn’t twisted. Still a mystery.

    The sweet peppers did poorly (too hot!) but are now producing and we ended up with a purple jalapeno that I’ve never planted in my life. Weird summer indeed.