tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3352076248333591052.post5591866551236441608..comments2024-03-17T20:03:11.733+00:00Comments on Radix: Oh Heck, Here's Mecha-meckRhizowenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13898344291012563139noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3352076248333591052.post-49623280429857452922016-01-23T13:04:08.320+00:002016-01-23T13:04:08.320+00:00Hi Ron
Thanks so much for pointing this out. It ...Hi Ron<br /><br />Thanks so much for pointing this out. It appears to be case of oh, heck, it ain't mecha-meck! If you know of somewhere I can source the true Ipomoea pandurata, I'd be very grateful to know. <br /><br />Rhizowenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13898344291012563139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3352076248333591052.post-15022553406540633142015-04-09T01:16:54.787+01:002015-04-09T01:16:54.787+01:00Hello - My name is Ron (I use Ron_Convolvulaceae o...Hello - My name is Ron (I use Ron_Convolvulaceae on the web or Ron on FB<br />https://www.facebook.com/groups/MorningGloryLovers/) and I am very familiar with the Ipomoea species you are addressing including species identification via seed characteristics.<br /><br />The seeds you have posted are those of Ipomoea macrorhiza , not Ipomoea pandurata.<br /><br />I thought you might like to know.<br /><br />regards,<br /><br />RonRon_Convolvulaceaehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12656478781321967780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3352076248333591052.post-92194476364652145432010-06-17T23:07:01.485+01:002010-06-17T23:07:01.485+01:00Thanks Joan
I know of PROINPA - it is a useful so...Thanks Joan<br /><br />I know of PROINPA - it is a useful source as you say.<br /><br />Thanks for thinking good sweetpotato thoughts for me - I do believe it's working.Rhizowenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13898344291012563139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3352076248333591052.post-43410523389016937602010-06-08T23:12:52.590+01:002010-06-08T23:12:52.590+01:00I thought you might find this organization - PROIN...I thought you might find this organization - PROINPA (http://www.proinpa.org)- interesting and helpful. The site is all in Spanish, but an heirloom vegetable enthusiast I interviewed for another blog I write for recommended it as a great source. I can send along the other links or the interview if you like. Just let me know. Thinking good sweet potato growing thoughts for you!Joan Lambert Baileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03115423496781398997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3352076248333591052.post-13427713244328913932010-05-29T12:48:40.785+01:002010-05-29T12:48:40.785+01:00Thank you Mark, that's very kind of you.
Owen...Thank you Mark, that's very kind of you.<br /><br />Owen ... you're right, there is a valid place for backyard science, and I shouldn't really feel inferior for being self-educated. There's a lot to be said for studying something because you're passionate about it rather than because you're obliged to. And although most academic papers seem to be over my head, it does still sink in on some level. I will probably read through the potato anthocyanins paper ten times and still be thinking "hnh?" but some time later when I'm gazing at the coloured spuds grown from my own experiments I'll go "yowwww! It all makes sense now!"<br /><br />Oh the magical sound of a 12-string ... it brings a special resonance to everything. I'm not a very good guitarist, I'm really a singer who has had to learn to accompany myself out of necessity, but the 12-string makes me sound a better player than I am. When people express surprise that I always play 12-string on everything, I say it's because having two strings for each note gives me double the chance of hitting the right one. They usually think I'm joking. I'm not.Rebsie Fairholmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17811733792196954188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3352076248333591052.post-30697751984854116242010-05-28T22:39:05.818+01:002010-05-28T22:39:05.818+01:00Meant to say thanks Mark for the paper - very inte...Meant to say thanks Mark for the paper - very interesting - just apply gibberllins and cytokinins and bingo!Rhizowenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13898344291012563139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3352076248333591052.post-31319775898163149842010-05-28T22:33:44.094+01:002010-05-28T22:33:44.094+01:00Hi Mark
I knew Platycodon was medicinal - good fo...Hi Mark<br /><br />I knew Platycodon was medicinal - good for asthma- and it also grows OK here. I'm guessing it would be a bit similar to rampion, Campanula rapunculus in flavour and texture. I seem to have an aversion to eating plants that are particularly slow growing/ornamental and from what I remember, Platycodon resents root disturbance/ division, so I would be afraid of harvesting the root and killing the crown. Maybe I should try it anyway -in the name of science. This proposed garden of tuberous delights is getting bigger by the day. Just need an army of indentured peasants to do the hard graft. Feed 'em maca powder. <br /><br />Hi Rebsie<br /><br />Paywallbusterman to the rescue - wonders of the internet manifested. I shouldn't worry about being out of your depth - you're reading relevant literature, carrying out experiments - that sounds like science to me. If you aren't paddling out of your depth, you're not doing it right. No-one is born with this knowledge. As Mark says, most authors are quite flattered when you contact them for copies of their papers - they then know that at least two people out of 6 billion+ have read them. <br /><br />Haven't touched the 12 string since we went WWOOFing in the antipodes over a decade ago. It's <br />located in a quaint Cornish cottage with 100% humidity a few miles from here, so I'm expecting the strings will be as rusty, if not more so, than me. It's funny but even really simple things (that's my level) which sound a bit ordinary on a six string, take on a strange, resonant power on a twelve string. Maybe that's because I keep missing the strings I mean to play. Another characteristic of my style.Rhizowenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13898344291012563139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3352076248333591052.post-52839489473306698862010-05-28T19:56:32.411+01:002010-05-28T19:56:32.411+01:00Rebsie
we also subscribe to food chemistry, I can ...Rebsie<br />we also subscribe to food chemistry, I can send the pdf doc to you (email me at rmark@nmsu.edu . As regards the other, academics are often willing to send their copy of the document to you if you ask.<br /><br />Owen<br />found another tuberous wonder you can grow Platycodon grandiflorus! It is called doraji in Korea. It is beautiful blue flowered plant and the root is edible.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15298303681158987258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3352076248333591052.post-85402475987245815202010-05-28T15:47:42.384+01:002010-05-28T15:47:42.384+01:00Aww, thanks Owen, I appreciate your encouragement....Aww, thanks Owen, I appreciate your encouragement. I'm acutely aware of being an artist dabbling in a scientists' world, often paddling way out of my depth - but I suppose the strength of being untrained is having an open mind and an ability to translate things into layman's terms and open it up to others.<br /><br />The paper I was trying to access was S. Eichhorn and P. Winterhalter (2005) "Anthocyanins from pigmented potato varieties" in Food Research International, and the catchily titled "Cultivar differences of total anthocyanins and anthocyanidins in red and purple-fleshed potatoes and their relation to antioxidant activity" by J. Lachman et al (2009) in Food Chemistry. There's a fair bit of useful info in the abstracts, and as I know next to nothing about biochemistry I probably won't understand most of the paper even if I could access it, but I like to better myself by struggling along with these things.<br /><br />Talking of music, it'd be nice to hear your endeavours with the old 12-string.Rebsie Fairholmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17811733792196954188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3352076248333591052.post-12390647025889160192010-05-27T05:11:47.419+01:002010-05-27T05:11:47.419+01:00Owen
our university subscribes to Euphytica. I ha...Owen<br />our university subscribes to Euphytica. I have downloaded the pdf. I will forward it to you.<br />MarkMarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15298303681158987258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3352076248333591052.post-60390550965808791352010-05-26T22:43:20.148+01:002010-05-26T22:43:20.148+01:00Hi Rebsie
It's weird as most other ipomoeas h...Hi Rebsie<br /><br />It's weird as most other ipomoeas have really smooth seeds. <br /><br />What was the title of the paper/ authors/ journal? <br /><br />You can't be an uneducated oik with a shrivelled sense of self-worth - I bet more people have listened to and enjoyed your music than have read the paper on anthocyanins. Your descriptions of your pea breeding experiments are a model of clarity and you come from Cheltenham, which is, to my oikish mind, a superior location. You're doing fine.Rhizowenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13898344291012563139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3352076248333591052.post-25019588979993287702010-05-26T22:23:25.228+01:002010-05-26T22:23:25.228+01:00Wow, what groovy seeds. I wonder what evolutionary...Wow, what groovy seeds. I wonder what evolutionary pressures made them feel the need to disguise themselves as angora guinea pigs?<br /><br />I completely share your frustration about the paywall for research papers. I was excitedly trying to enlighten myself about potato anthocyanins the other day when I hit the $34 barrier. Maybe it's just a safety device to stop uneducated oiks like me from overloading our brains and suffering an inferiority complex and low sense of self-worth when I find I don't understand a word of it.Rebsie Fairholmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17811733792196954188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3352076248333591052.post-998906814142710342010-05-25T11:15:20.387+01:002010-05-25T11:15:20.387+01:00Hi Vegetable Heaven
Maybe you should try a variet...Hi Vegetable Heaven<br /><br />Maybe you should try a variety like T65 which is drier and not as sweet as the typical orange moist fleshed ones. It's similar to the "Boniato" types found in Latin America. <br /><br />Hi Mark<br />When I've got the logistics of that proposition sorted out, I will certainly be contacting you. <br /><br />Hi Ray<br />Glad you enjoyed it.Rhizowenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13898344291012563139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3352076248333591052.post-63175012823555766542010-05-25T03:25:24.697+01:002010-05-25T03:25:24.697+01:00Sweet potato is delicious if roasted, although giv...Sweet potato is delicious if roasted, although given the choice I would still go for roasted parsnips.<br /><br />Owen, you should start an agricultural botanic garden devoted to tubers in your part of the world. Then we can all come and live and work there in a tuberous heaven.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15298303681158987258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3352076248333591052.post-52841739774581142932010-05-24T15:39:58.647+01:002010-05-24T15:39:58.647+01:00Makes me wish I liked sweet potato!Makes me wish I liked sweet potato!Kathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12841961223771293021noreply@blogger.com