If only I was 40 years younger! Quite inspirational. Nevertheless, I've sent out an order to Farmacie Isolde for the white eggplant and some other Solanaceae that I hope might do well here in Ecuador. I always wanted to work with Passiflora, but mostly to create houseplants that were rugged. I tried growing I. pandurata 30 years ago in Boston, and it struggled a few years before disappearing without ever producing a flower. I wanted to produce perennial garden flowers with it. But for now I'm sticking with breeding daylilies as well-adapted garden plants for Ecuador.
When you harvested seed from the 2024 planting, was there any difference in the appearance of the seed? Which may indicate seeds that were a result of the crossing?
This is so exiting!
Fantastic work on multiple fronts! Bravo! You are making breakthroughs with species I had to put aside since my conditions weren't quite suitable.
If only I was 40 years younger! Quite inspirational. Nevertheless, I've sent out an order to Farmacie Isolde for the white eggplant and some other Solanaceae that I hope might do well here in Ecuador. I always wanted to work with Passiflora, but mostly to create houseplants that were rugged. I tried growing I. pandurata 30 years ago in Boston, and it struggled a few years before disappearing without ever producing a flower. I wanted to produce perennial garden flowers with it. But for now I'm sticking with breeding daylilies as well-adapted garden plants for Ecuador.
When you harvested seed from the 2024 planting, was there any difference in the appearance of the seed? Which may indicate seeds that were a result of the crossing?
Nope, I remember them all looking the same
I'm referring to the eggplants.
No xenia effect on the eggplant seeds
This reads like an LLM synopsis of the essay