Friday, May 2, 2014

Hey bud!



Tomato, jalapeño.  Plants grown from seeds born of grocery store vegetables.  

6 comments:

The Dude said...

I used to raise vegetables from seeds from store-bought produce. Great fun. Great genetics lessons.

I also used to collect seeds from flowers that I grew, such as nastursiums. They mutated every generation and by the time those strains were lost to me the plants were barely recognizable.

I have also transplanted peach trees that grew from pits thrown in the compost heap. Those bred pretty true - produced blooms and peaches in a few years.

Now I grow walnut trees. I won't be around to see how they turn out. Yesterday the parent walnut of all the neighborhood walnuts was taken down - it was over 100 years old. Big beautiful tree, now in a landfill.

ndspinelli said...

Shit, I thought it might be an indica bud.

The Dude said...

Dude, that's like totally not a gnarly righteous bud! But then again, who knows - tobacco is in the same family of plants as tomatoes and peppers. So spark 'em up - you might invent Tomacco!

Chip Ahoy said...

Interesting your flowers changed. Were your flowers sexing it up with similar flowers or what?

ndspinelli said...

Mutant Nastursiums, great name for a band.

The Dude said...

Themselves alone, but what was going on was that they were de-hybridizing themselves. The flowers changed to simpler, less showy blooms and the stalks got longer and leggier.

I was able to keep the experiment going for about 5 years and the changes were very interesting.

Now I don't grow flowers or vegetables - while fun and tasty, I am more interested in trees. My yard grows flowers in abundance - bulbs planted by the previous owner - and once they flower I mow them down. They pop back up a year later and we both seem to do okay with that plan.