Okay, this one is scary because it's my first two-species hybrid and it feels like a big step. Exciting though...
There's been a bit of experimentation and reasearch with creating sativum-fulvum hybrids because the tawny pea has lots of disease resistance genes which would be useful to breed into the ordinary culinary pea, but I might well be the only person who's ever attempted it just for the flower colours!
Tawny peas have flowers in shades we don't see in ordinary peas - lemon, ochre, and coral - and I'd be totally over the moon to be able to add these colours to my future Rainbow Pea mix.
I want to work with a hybrid because the tawny pea isn't going to be any use itself. It hasn't been selected for taste or productivity and it has pods which shatter at maturity, scattering the seed everywhere which is not ideal if you're trying to harvest them! Hopefully I'll eventually get the new flower colours in a plant that's useful and productive and tasty.
I'm going to need a lot of luck with this one...
There's been a bit of experimentation and reasearch with creating sativum-fulvum hybrids because the tawny pea has lots of disease resistance genes which would be useful to breed into the ordinary culinary pea, but I might well be the only person who's ever attempted it just for the flower colours!
Tawny peas have flowers in shades we don't see in ordinary peas - lemon, ochre, and coral - and I'd be totally over the moon to be able to add these colours to my future Rainbow Pea mix.
I want to work with a hybrid because the tawny pea isn't going to be any use itself. It hasn't been selected for taste or productivity and it has pods which shatter at maturity, scattering the seed everywhere which is not ideal if you're trying to harvest them! Hopefully I'll eventually get the new flower colours in a plant that's useful and productive and tasty.
I'm going to need a lot of luck with this one...
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