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Jessica Padgham wrote:I grew some from seed one year. I got all kinds of colors ranging from green to pink to red. I can't say I noticed any variation in flavor since I tended to throw them all in together when cooking. The color shows up early enough that selection shouldn't be a problem. They may need to be stratified. I grew them in a milk jug that I left outside for the winter.
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Aaron Festa wrote:Newbie here. Why wouldn't we start rhubarb from seed? I started two plants from seed. am I doomed or something?
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Jessica Padgham wrote:They may need to be stratified. I grew them in a milk jug that I left outside for the winter.
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Dan Boone wrote:
Just as one more data point, I just planted (actually, 9 days ago) some "Victoria" rhubarb seeds straight from the packet without pre-soaking or stratifying. In a standard seed starting tray in my makeshift $7 seed-starting greenhouse, they have already germinated (five out of six) and poked up out of the potting soil.
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Deb Rebel wrote:Okra will grow here, it can get 7' tall, and needs tomato like cages usually (or so I've seen others do). I have had poor luck with Okra, it gets maybe knee high for me. Not everyone can grow everything to a good resolution.
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Is there any way to get some of the UK varieties, or does anyone know where one can get varieties other than Victoria, Glaskins Perpetual, Valentine, Canada and Crimson Red? (I've seen a few others but they are long sold out)
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Dan Boone wrote:I am working on a land race of something I call "field okra" -- basically planting okra seed out beyond the reach of my garden hose and saving the few puny fruit from the few puny plants that survive the mid-summer drought. Replanting those seeds (this will be year #3) the goal is to eventually breed a productive okra that I can stick in the ground and ignore until harvest.
Deb Rebel wrote:
Is there any way to get some of the UK varieties, or does anyone know where one can get varieties other than Victoria, Glaskins Perpetual, Valentine, Canada and Crimson Red? (I've seen a few others but they are long sold out)
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Anita Karlson wrote:
This is one of my rhubarb plants that I planted from seed last year. It seems to be doing ok, but probably will have to wait a year or two to be able to taste it!
Mick Fisch wrote:a possible source for glaskins perpetual rhubarb seeds. $4 for 50 seeds. https://oikostreecrops.com/products/glaskins-perpetual-rhubarb-seeds/?search=rhubarb
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Greg Martin wrote:My rhubarb experiment this year will be growing out these Early Champagne Rhubarb seeds from the Roughwood Center. My thinking is that with rhubarb's large leaves that they might be ok in shadier spaces, but that getting them to leaf out earlier when shade is lighter that maybe they might be better able to handle life under deciduous trees in my food forest. Going with seeds is just hoping that there will be enough genetic variability to give a few of them a better chance with handling shadier conditions.
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