movement in less than 24 hours

slow movement or fast..whichever trips your trigger...we have both in the 2014 season preparations tonight...the community garden ancestor/domesticate project has a new leaf on the way as one of the wild potato plants is sprouting a third one...i am pleased...geeked even at the prospect of another morphology display in the garden...they are still small and slowly growing plants and it may be weeks before they graduate into larger pots...the peat pellets seem roomy enough for now...the quinoa is another story...i have been reading up on the grain and, among other interesting tidbits, "lost crops of the incas" warns that quinoa seeds should be allowed to dry thoroughly before they are stored "because of the ease of germination"...that was no idle warning because in less than a day the seeds have begun to germinate...i thought winter wheat was fast...no contest here...the concern about birds may be valid..it may not...clearly this plant evolved in an area where fast germination conferred major survival benefits ( not that this trait couldn't have been enhanced by artificial selection during domestication...but the trait still had to be there )...whatever the reason this is a very fast result...it may be by way of an early payoff for later headaches...research tells me that seed heads on a single plant reach maturity at different times and that harvest timing is critical since seed heads that are allowed to go on too long shatter very readily..."if the harvest is not properly timed, shattering occurs with large loss of seed."...this will be interesting and an education in patience i'll warrant...more tomorrow if this sort of activity continues.