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Blue-Jay
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The Ganymede lima harvest is rolling in. When was the last time you saw this much Ganymede seed all in one place? This is the second year I've grown Ganymede isolated from any other lima. Two years ago SSE's Heritage Farm in Decorah, Iowa found they didn't like the look of Ganymede they had in their inventory of this variety. They asked me for 300 seeds and in 2014 got 15% outcrossed seeds from that growout. In 2015 I had told them I grew Ganymede in isolation and didn't get any off types. They told me if I grew then again in 2016 without any off types they would take another sample probably of 300-500 seeds. So far all of these harvested and no off types this year. I've grown 4 times the amount of Ganymede in 2016 that I grew in 2015. I'm thinking a pure line Ganymede lima will live in the SSE inventory once again.