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ok, i hadda, (smak me if you want i can take it :) )... https://www.discoverwildlife.com/plant-facts/fungi/biggest-oldest-organism-fungi

plants can change the number of stomata they have through time if the CO2 levels are not sufficient for their photosynthesis. they have fossil records of various plants which show this during various periods of the earth's history when the CO2 levels were different.

@heirloomgal and @Decoy1 thank you for the replies, details and pictures. yes, i have some Purple Dove outcrosses that look exactly like what i see there. :) those white eyes without the yellowish ring around them that get discolored with age is very nice and something i'm happy to have also...

however, underneath it all are the bacteria, viruses, phages, fungi, etc. which have been around for much longer, but because they live in a different way and aren't very big they're not considered as important - without them we'd not be here nor would the plants or other animals.

they are not native to north america but can spread or escape from gardens or be moved around by animals, wind, water, soil... as a two year plant they don't seem to persist in many areas unless there is some kind of soil disturbance and the native plants are not apex forest trees. that said...

just to make things clearer to me, this was the 2nd year you grew Purple Dove that you saw the seeds come out differently?

i see a range of browns there some of the lighter ones are toned towards what i would call olive and then the ones in the middle are darker.

smart puppie

Purple Dove bean outcrosses!!! :) :) :) it took me four years to get those to show up in any way that i wanted to see. i'm curious if you got a lot of seeds and kept them or discarded them or any description you might have of them? i have posted some pics of some outcrosses in last year's...

Russ, that looks very much like a possible parent of Monster... i can't quite tell from the color of your picture but from what i can tell it's similar to what came to me via those Dapple Gray seeds.

make sure to inspect it first. i made the mistake once of bringing in some compost without looking at it first and to make it even worse i had them mix it with some topsoil first. i didn't know how bad it was until i started watering the new gardens and started seeing all these bits of metal...

colors can fade, black is usually also cheapest in inks.

ascorbic acid (vitamin C) is very sour... :)

congrats to Buford and Momma and hoomans!

yes, that is the recommendation i've often read. it depends upon what i'm planting and how many seeds i have to plant. if i only have a few seeds i will give them more space so i'm not wasting seeds. when i have a lot of extra seeds i'll plant closer and then leave them. the only times i...