Backyard Aquaponics
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I reckon my bean seeds (saved) do worse than packet seed

Could they have cross pollinated

They were originally grown side by side with other beans (yellow + purple climbing).

Still grow, but poorly, and very little crop. Beans of the same type from a new packet do really well.

Are they heirloom seeds? Or are they weird dodgy brothers seeds? Sometimes, the plant you get from the store, as seed or seedling, is a hybrid, and grows well, but the seeds it produces revert back to one of the base plants. Therefore producing a poor crop.

Proper seeds from a normal packet from bunnings?

I reckon your right - must be a hybrid. I'll just keep planting them till there's none left

Go for good seed stock OB
diggers, eden, or other traditional seed suppliers
Only have to get them once

Who do you use here?

Thought I'd pull the lettuce Xmas tree down today.....

Grew to over 160cm....

Think I might save some seed...

you can sprout them too

rupe you can't count the bottom of the roots in the measurement but not a bad size

Why not... it's my lettuce.... ... and there was a bend in the stem anyway...

OK... OK ... call it 150cm then.... shhhez... your middle name doesn't start with "F" does it....

a tad

P.S. ... There was a "Tad" of a bend in the plant...

And I'd actually removed about 10-15cm of fine lateral roots (that filled the entire dutch pot)... from the plant ball anyway... to retrieve the clay balls ....

Hi Rope,
thought I would catch up on your system first and now not sure it was a good idea - know the feeling when lots of SP are found floating

Rupe...
My lettuce has also gone to seed, flowered etc... when is it ok to remove, if I wan the seed? When should I plant the seed? Is there anything to stop me growing lettuce year round?
I really hope the seed pods aren't fully formed and popped by the time I get home. Based on seeing the state of your plant you removed.