Re: radicchio/chicory
JL Hudson carries this book.
JL Hudson, Seedsman
Star Rt. 2, Box 337
La Honda, CA
94020 USA
$20 US + $2.25 US for shipping.
Delivery is prompt, and his catalog is awesome if you don't already have
it. Toss in a dollar for postage on the catalog and mention that you want
it. Otherwise he'll send you the new one for free in the spring for having
spent more than $10.
Tell him Glider sent you. :)
Glider
At 11:32 AM 10/25/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi Margaret,
>Thanks for your response.
>I wonder what purpose the bags serve?
>The pollination factor did occur to me, and there don't seem to be many
>bees around this time of year, so I've been using a small paintbrush to
>pollinate the flowers, but so far only on one plant. The second plant has
>buds but now flowers yet, so I'm waiting impatiently to be able to cross
>pollinate. What do you think of the paintbrush as opposed to rubbing two
>flowers together.
>
>I had seen the Seed to Seed book in a catalog some time ago and tried
>without luck to get it from the public library. Perhaps I will try to find
>it again and buy it after all.
>Pat
>
>At 06:55 AM 10/25/00 -0600, you wrote:
>>The resource you need is Suzanne Ashworth's "Seed to Seed" (I'm sure
>>available from Seed Savers Exchange if you can't find it elsewhere). She
>>says chicory flowers are perfect, but self-incompatible and have to be
>>insect or hand pollinated. The evening before the flowers are to open, bag
>>those flowers on as many different plants as possible. Early in the
>>morning, remove bags and rub flowers from two different plants
>>together...she has more detailed instructions, but that's the basic
>>technique. Good luck, and I do highly recommend her book. Margaret L
>>
>>
>>At 03:30 PM 10/24/00 -0400, you wrote:
>>>Hi everyone,
>>>
>>>I have been growing some italian radicchio (seeds came from Italy). A
>>>friend shared several varieties of seeds with me from various packets.
>>>Mine are all unmarked, so I don't know exactly which varieties I have.
>>>
>>>My question is this: Can anyone tell me how radicchio forms its seeds? I
>>>have a light green variety, one that apparently does not grow into a
>>>head, is less bitter than most and can be harvested early. A couple of
>>>the plants have started to flower, one is pretty far along and has
>>>bloomed now for a couple of weeks. Flowers come and go -- lovely purple
>>>flowers about an inch in diameter -- but I see no signs of seeds or seed
pods.
>>>
>>>I have successfully gathered seed from every other kind of lettuce and
>>>leafy green that I have grown, but this plant just doesn't seem to be
>>>forming seeds. Does it take a long time? What should I be looking for?
>>>
>>>I have searched on the internet, using every resource I could think of
>>>but come up with nothing.
>>>Can anyone help?
>>>
>>>Many thanks,
>>>Pat
>>>Zone 7, Delmarva
>>>
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