i have been checking the teocintli plants daily and have been collecting what mature seed i find...however...the weather has turned somewhat cooler with daytime highs in the 30s ( fahrenheit ) and nighttime lows well below freezing, so the ears have begun to open and shatter even though there is still a lot of green seed...i have gone out and brought in the opened ears i found to collect as much viable seed as i can...it is a mixed result at best...
the seeds are coming in in one of three types...still green and whose viability is completely suspect...lighter and smaller seeds ( which surprised me with a germination rate somewhere in the sixty percent range last year )...and the larger, darker seeds whose chances of becoming a full blown adult are much better...there are many more ears still unopened, and many, unfortunately, that are very green...i will continue to look out for viable seed but the later it gets the less the chance...
as things move along outdoors the basement is showing signs of good movement...all four mashua plants...the two transplants and the two from cuttings, are showing new growth..good news since i there were zero tubers produced outdoors this past season...which i have to think was due to a bit too much shade where they were planted..an error i will not repeat if these indoor plants succeed in setting tubers...they did last winter ( which is where these plants came from ) so i am hopeful of a good outcome...
puddles' kids and their onion cohabitants are doing fine...hard to tell from the tangle but most have second and third leaves sprouted...they are leggy and falling over...which is expected...we will see if we can get them through the winter and into the april sunshine to aim for another generation...so far things are alright...we will see how this progresses...
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