Posted by nmm1 on March 3, 2010, 12:04 pm
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>Don't they use ground sweet chestnuts on madeira?, I am sure I have seen
>folk trying to flog them in the Nuns valley
Dunno, but sweet chestnut flour is used in several places.
Regards,
Nick Maclaren.
Posted by Bob Hobden on March 1, 2010, 11:42 am
"Michael Bell" wrote...
> I am trying to breed alder as a grain crop. One of my ideas is to
> cross A. incana (the native alder) with A. cordata ("Italian" alder,
> widely planted in municipal settings for its handsome dark green
> leaves) which has much bigger cones.
> To do a cross you have to keep out rogue pollen. A friend gave me
> Glassine Bags, H86065, they are widely available from all sorts of
> suppliers, but I bought more from r s components, who are mainly an
> electronics supplier, because I already had an account with them.
> I cut the catkins off and put these bags over the cones and sealed
> them (the bags I have may have deteriorated in storage, the flaps
> weren't very sticky, so I used Sellotape) and left them. But after
> only a few days the cones poked through. The "paper" of the bags had
> not turned to pulp or to mush in the rain. What seems to have happened
> is that bags flapped in the wind and where the cones touched the bags,
> they rubbed through.
> Does anybody have any recommendations or good ideas for how to get
> round this? There is still time before A cordata becomes fertile in
> Northumberland.
I wonder if those special "stayfresh" bags form Lakeland would work, they
are plastic but are impregnated with something, stone dust I think.
I heard they have used them on plant collecting expeditions from Kew.
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Regards
Bob Hobden
W.of London. UK
Posted by Michael Bell on March 2, 2010, 1:09 am
> "Michael Bell" wrote...
>> I am trying to breed alder as a grain crop. One of my ideas is to
>> cross A. incana (the native alder) with A. cordata ("Italian" alder,
>> widely planted in municipal settings for its handsome dark green
>> leaves) which has much bigger cones.
>>
>> To do a cross you have to keep out rogue pollen. A friend gave me
>> Glassine Bags, H86065, they are widely available from all sorts of
>> suppliers, but I bought more from r s components, who are mainly an
>> electronics supplier, because I already had an account with them.
>>
>> I cut the catkins off and put these bags over the cones and sealed
>> them (the bags I have may have deteriorated in storage, the flaps
>> weren't very sticky, so I used Sellotape) and left them. But after
>> only a few days the cones poked through. The "paper" of the bags had
>> not turned to pulp or to mush in the rain. What seems to have happened
>> is that bags flapped in the wind and where the cones touched the bags,
>> they rubbed through.
>>
>> Does anybody have any recommendations or good ideas for how to get
>> round this? There is still time before A cordata becomes fertile in
>> Northumberland.
>>
> I wonder if those special "stayfresh" bags form Lakeland would work, they
> are plastic but are impregnated with something, stone dust I think.
> I heard they have used them on plant collecting expeditions from Kew.
Thank you for a constructive answer to my question.
Michael Bell
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>Don't they use ground sweet chestnuts on madeira?, I am sure I have seen
>folk trying to flog them in the Nuns valley