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Old October 26, 2012   #37
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Originally Posted by Fred Hempel View Post
Yesterday was a great day. We harvested about 20 lbs of Captain Lucky purely for eating purposes. Lucky lunchtime today...

And I found a heart-shaped Cherokee Purple. Who knows if the shape will show up in the next generation, but one can always dream.
Fred, on the QT, ahem, there already is a CP heart out there and it might be available for 2013 if the growouts went OK. Someone sent me seeds for an Indian Stripe Heart and it is, and I'll be offering it in my next seed offer here at TV.

Someone also sent me seeds for an Orange Minsk Heart and last year there weren't enough seeds to offer, and it was a heart on growout, and I just got the seeds back from the person who was doing the seed production, and I need to confirm with him that it remained a heart and if so I'll be offering that one in my next seed offer as well.

it didn't surprise me at all that the IS heart showed up as well as the CP heart since those two are very much related.

So it's not a dream at all, although heat and other envieonmental factors can give heart shapes, but it's not a genetic change.

I've been tracking down what's called Cuore De Jade which one person here showed a picture of but it wasn't a heart at all, as it should be with Cuore as the first word. There's a thread here at TV about different shapes and someone showed a picture of, I think it was Green Zebra, I'm not sure, that was heart shaped, but I know no more about that one as to a heat problem of a genetic change.

I contacted the source of the Cuore seeds and asked him where he got it from and he just sent me contact information. And why the interest? B/c as far as I know it's only Reinhard Kraft in Germany who has been breeding two different lines of a green heart. So I asked him about this Cuore one and he said as far as he knew no one else in Europe was doing so.

So now I can send the contact info to Reinhard b/c this Cuore one also showsd up at Ventmarin with absolutely no information at all.

Anyway, well I remember the song from Man of La Mancha which goes some thing like..... dream the impossible dream.
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