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  • From: "Sean Albiston" <lab AT physics.umn.edu>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Market-farming] Imperial Star Artichoke (annual)
  • Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 11:21:04 -0600

MarFars - If anyone has any experience with this variety, I would be
interested in hearing about it...

I did 24 plants two years ago - Burpee introduced the seed without
clarifying the importance of 250 hrs. of vernalization (normal strains take
1000+hrs) - the packet wasn't PPV listed either. I was playing around and
didn't try to cool them at all - greenhouse to outside in early June. I got
2 or 3 fist size chokes per plant at about 30" in diameter. The plants
looked terribly stressed and the buds tasted extremely bitter. I think the
plants were confused and attempted a last ditch effort to reproduce...

This year I'm trying 150 - about 2" tall seedlings right now. 100 are going
to be vernalized mid May in a hoophouse. I'm going to baby the other fifty
with short days in a greenhouse and nights in a fridge and see what comes of
it.

My only gripe with the entire thing is the PPV status of the seeds - a bit
expensive and seed saving prohibited.

> Annual artichokes never occured
> to me. Please advise ;-)

sean albiston
www.bluerooforganics.com





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