New Tricot

[Garf]

I have another Tricot seedling, this time from Mountain Magic. Looks healthy.

[ginger2778]

Originally Posted by Garf

I have another Tricot seedling, this time from Mountain Magic. Looks healthy.

Wow I have never gotten even one. I am jealous!

[mcsee]

Tricots are nice to see at the time, but they end up growing the same as a normal seedling. Here is a photo of Lime Green Salad seedlings in 2008.

[kilroyscarnival]

I got one too, one of my Red Currant seedlings! That and one other with two leaves apparently stuck together. I moistened them and was able to work them apart, and they spread apart for a bit but when I checked back they were curled together again.

[mcsee]

Use saliva on your finger and then put on the cotyledons. Most often works.

[Redbaron]

Originally Posted by mcsee

Use saliva on your finger and then put on the cotyledons. Most often works.

[mcsee]

Maybe an Aussie 'invention'.

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by mcsee

Maybe an Aussie 'invention'.

YOu can claim kangaroos as an Aussie invention, but not saliva.

Stuck seed coats, some call them helmet heads, aren't all that rare, but when you coat the seed coat, let the saliva stay on there for maybe a half hour, then reapply it, you've got plenty of saliva, and let it stay on there for a couple of hours.

Saliva is full of enzymes that usually break down the seed coat and it's the best method I know of to do so, and believe you me, I've tried plenty, that usually works.

Forget it with the wet cotton ball method as well as playing surgeon with some eyebrow tweezers, b'c they aren't that good, of course IMO.

Edited to add that seeds saved from fruits of a plant that is a tricot don't give you all plants with tricots, I forget the ratio right now, but there is one.

[kurt]

As long as you do not use tobacco products that are in saliva you will hinder the transmission of the tobbaco mosaic virus which was a scourge at one time.
Transmission from plant to plant

TMV is very easily transmitted when an infected leaf rubs against a leaf of a healthy plant, by contaminated tools, and occasionally by workers whose hands become contaminated with TMV after smoking cigarettes. A wounded plant cell provides a site of entry for TMV. The virus can also contaminate seed coats, and the plants germinating from these seeds can become infected. TMV is extraordinarily stable. Purified TMV (Figure 6) has been reported to be infectious after 50 years storage in the laboratory at 4°C/40°F.

[kilroyscarnival]

All very interesting, thanks! The twin leaves look much less clingy today and I positioned the plant in the sunlight so they would tend to reach more clearly apart. Fortunately, I stay away from tobacco.

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by kurt

As long as you do not use tobacco products that are in saliva you will hinder the transmission of the tobbaco mosaic virus which was a scourge at one time.
Transmission from plant to plant

TMV is very easily transmitted when an infected leaf rubs against a leaf of a healthy plant, by contaminated tools, and occasionally by workers whose hands become contaminated with TMV after smoking cigarettes. A wounded plant cell provides a site of entry for TMV. The virus can also contaminate seed coats, and the plants germinating from these seeds can become infected. TMV is extraordinarily stable. Purified TMV (Figure 6) has been reported to be infectious after 50 years storage in the laboratory at 4°C/40°F.

However, the last large outbreak of TMV in the US was over 20 years ago, I once knew where but that brain cell isn't working today. There are occasional small outbreaks here and there but these days TMV is mostly a problem in large commercial greenhouse operations where it's spread manually.

All US grown tobacco for about the last 20 years is TMV tolerant, but Turkish tobacco is not.