Tim Mackson

Hi,  I was wondering if anyone could explain how these flowers (Chrysanthemum Carinatum) get their colors?  They're annuals, so they're grown every year from seed. From what I've read they might not come back the next year true to the parent plant.  Are they grown in large fields of the same colors and then the seed is mixed at some point?  I bought seeds from a small seller who I think produced his own seed.    If these grow well I was planning on saving my own seed but I'm thinking that I won't get the same results.  I think that the next generation of flowers will blend into some solid color.  Is this true?

Thank you for any reply!
Have a good day.
Tim

Joseph Lofthouse wrote:We store vegetables in the fridge for months before eating them.

In their natural ecosystem, peach pits stay out in cold freezing weather, partially germinated for months before finally emerging during warm weather.

Thank you Joseph,  This makes sense.  I could see the seeds getting enough cold to be stratified, then getting a warming trend enough to make them sprout and then another extended cold spell again.  

It's not like the refrigerator is going to freeze them (hopefully).  

Now, I'm wondering if this would work with any type of seed.  I might have to experiment with that.  :).

Hello,

I was experimenting with peach seeds just trying to see if I could get any to sprout and I had success with one (I only tried two).  Although it was just an experiment,  I potted up the sprouted seed.   I know that it's too early to start anything in our cold, dark house and that the sprouted seed is probably going to damp off and die or some other failure will happen due to lack of proper growing conditions.

While reading articles on this online, I came across an article saying to put sprouted seeds in the refrigerator to keep them until it's warm enough to plant them.

Has anyone had success doing this?  It seems sort of counterintuitive to me.   It seems like storing seeds at below 40 for any length of time would damage them in some sort of way.

Thank you for any replies!
Have a good day!
Tim

Anne Miller wrote:The best suggestion would be to put the seeds in the freezer to kill the bugs like is done with mesquite seed pods.

Are you going to grow mimosa trees or do something else with the seeds?

Hi Anne,   I was going to grow them.  I took the bag outside and just let the bugs fly away.   By good fortune I had sealed them in a zip lock bag so the bugs were all contained and not flying through the house.  I'll have to check to see how many seeds are still viable.   I'm assuming that they hatched from one per individual seed but I'm not sure yet.  I used an image search and found out that the bugs are actually bean weevils.  I think that I'm going to have to get more seeds so that I have enough.  I was just planning on getting a ton of seeds, very crudely scarifying them, and throwing the whole batch in a pot of dirt this spring to get seedlings to transplant.   I do this with redbud and it works out well for that.   I'll have to try your freezer suggestion.  Thank you.

Hi!

Just wanted to warn anyone who might be thinking about collecting Mimosa tree seeds that they might contain a hidden surprise:

I just wanted to thank you all for the awesome replies.   So much good information.  Thank you all!

Anne Miller wrote:I never heard of making donuts with some sort of bake ware.

We make donuts with a cooky cutter similar to this:

https://www.amazon.com/HULISEN-Stainless-Doughnut-Biscuit-Professional/dp/B08DHT9B14/ref=asc_df_B08DHT9B14/

Lol.  I should have checked with you or my wife before ordering what I did.   I had no idea how to make donuts and just ordered it for her because she was busy.  
This is what I ordered:

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Trudeau-Silicone-12-Count-Donut-Pan-Multicolor-Confetti/995049596
I thought that you had to pour batter into the pan.
When my mother made donuts she just dropped globs of batter into hot oil  They never had a donut shape.  .


Seems like I was stressing out over nothing.
Thank you Anne.

Hello,

So my wife wanted to make donuts for her mother and I jumped online looking for a safe way to bake them since I'm totally against Teflon coatings on cookware.  I knew that most donut pans would be coated in Teflon.  I've been wary of this coating long before it was "discovered" that Teflon was dangerous.

I've always felt the same about silicone cookware, but never researched it.  It just didn't seem like a good idea to cook or bake with with it.

To make a long story short,  I found several articles saying that the silicone in bakeware was totally inert and very safe to bake with.  Because of these articles I decided to order a silicone donut pan which is being delivered today.

Of course, after ordering, I started finding articles saying that silicone breaks down under high heat and that it releases harmful compounds called  Siloxanes.  Supposedly some silicone cookware is of lesser quality and can break down sooner.  The lower quality silicone also might have additives making it even worse.  

The breakdown temp of silicone cookware is supposed to be 200 degrees Celsius (392 F) but this number seemed to somewhat arbitrary.  Because of this I've decided to return the donut pan.  Of course, no real testing has been done on this.  Apparently the way that this toxin release was discovered was by weighing the silicone cookware before and after using it to bake with.  Each time the cookware was used it weighed less than it did before being used. It was deduced that compounds were leaving the cookware.

My problem is that after several hours of searching I've discovered that I cannot find a single donut pan that isn't covered with some sort of nonstick coating.  I even found a company supposedly selling plain steel pans that were supposed to be pure and healthy -  These also turned out to be coated with some non stick coating.

Not sure what to do.  I guess forget about baking donuts?

Thanks.  Have a good day.  :)

Hello,  Lately I've become interested in producing my own peach rootstocks and I'm confused by what I seem to be finding on the internet about doing so.  

I wanted to make a stooling bed to cause suckers to form on Peach tree rootstock material (I was mostly thinking of Lovell rootstock) but I'm starting to think that this isn't the way that it's done.  I'm starting to think that Lovell rootstock is grown from seed somehow.  Is this true?  

There are a couple of things that I don't understand about this.  First, how can a rootstock supplier afford to grow enough rootstock to supply the market by using seed?  Second, how can a rootstock that is grown from seed be genetically the same as the parent rootstock?.  

It took me a while to realize that there must be something different with peaches compared to apples, because there is a ton of information about apple stooling beds, but very little information about growing peaches in stooling beds.

I guess my final questions are about a peach rootstock stooling beds:
Are peach tree stooling beds used in the industry?
Is there a type of common Peach rootstock that is royalty free that produces suckers and can be used in a stooling bed?
Is there something different about peaches where I can just gather peach seeds and start planting them for rootstock?
Thanks in advance to anyone who can clear up my confusion. I really appreciate the help.  :)

Take care
Tim