Plantbreeding@home Update #3: A Wild Seedling Appears XD

trumpman (72) in plantbreedingathome • 7 years ago

Everyday before I go to my work I have a look at the pots I have set for the Plantbreeding@home experiment. Everyday I look at them and every day I get dissapointed because all I see is the same boring soil and some occasional weeds. But today was a different day :D

Today, after 17 days that seemed like an eon the first seedling started to push out of the ground. It was barely visible but it was there!

I don't know if I have told you, but everytime I see a seedling struggling to come out I remember this scene:

Come on little one! Push!

And here's how the seedling looked at 11:00 pm, about 16 hours later:

I guess by tomorrow the cotyledons (the embryonic leaves) will be out of the ground and soon more pepper plants will soon follow. I will keep you updated :D

In the meantime, here are the my two previous Plantbreeding@home posts:

And here's some more info about the plantbreeding@home project:

What Is PlantBreeding@home?

PlantBreeding@home is a community project run on Steemit to enable everyone willing to participate in the creation of a new plant variety. @dysprosium is the one who came up with the idea, inspired by Gridcoin which awards people cryptocoins (gridcoins) for running BOINC on their computers. After some thinking, it was decided that for the first round of Plantbreeding@home the participants will grow (or at least try) a new pepper variety, one that is small and sweet. @dysprosium is also kind enough to offer steem and gridcoins to the people participating in the project if they successfully follow all his instruction :D

Here's the first parent, a super small pepper with a flavor that is more intense than a typical Jalapeno. The fruits are barely 1 cm long. The chilliness is something we hope to remove:

And here's the second parent, a sweet variety producing small bell peppers:

Hopefully, we will end up with a variety that is small and sweet. Will we succeed? Time will tell :)And that's pretty much the summary for the plantbreeding@home. For even more info, just read the official updates by @dysprosium:

Feel free to contact @dysprosium if you want to participate in the experiment!

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hrissm (58) · 7 years ago

Awesome! It’s a nice feeling when you see your plantings start to sprout and grow. I’m hoping that I’m able to take participate in this too. But I haven’t heard back from @dysprosium yet

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trumpman (72) · 7 years ago

Well let me upvote you to top then! Hopefully @dysprosium will see your message :D

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dysprosium (53) · 7 years ago (edited)

Hey @hrissm,

I saw and registered your wish of participation, currently I am figuring out how to send seeds to the various international states. This is awfully complicated... -.- (Turns out, sending seeds and potentially messing up the different ecosystems is not wanted by the different governments, therefore the restrictions are quite demanding, even for harmless varieties ;) )

I will update you all this weekend, I want to ship the seeds to you as soon as possible! So much for now: I already found a solution for

-Canada
-USA (I will need an US - resident to help me, more on the update)
-Switzerland

I am still not sure about:

-Africa
-Russia

Sorry for the delay, I know you are waiting for the seeds. I am in contact with the customs - office, but often they only know the most complicated way (with officials giving a "phytosanitary" certificate to guarantee that the seeds are ok etc.; this is the most costly and time consuming way as one has to wait for weeks, but buried deep in the regulations I found better solutions!) I think I can apply as customs officer after this.... :P