Recommendation for Sugar Snap Peas

[thistlebloom]

Adaptive Seeds and Peace Seeds also carry them.

I actually ordered the Sweet Magnolia (love that name!) from Adaptive, but I didn't see Opal Creek there. But I can't see their entire web page on my screen. I can't get it to adjust to the left
so maybe I just couldn't see it. Darn! I wanted them both!

 

[Hal]

I actually ordered the Sweet Magnolia (love that name!) from Adaptive, but I didn't see Opal Creek there. But I can't see their entire web page on my screen. I can't get it to adjust to the left
so maybe I just couldn't see it. Darn! I wanted them both!

My mistake, forgot they don't have Opal Creek this year. The Magnolia one is hyper tendril which is super neat to watch grow.

 

[PhilaGardener]

@thistlebloom , I grew both Sugar Magnolia and Opal Creek this year. Both of them reached 7 ft tall before the heat started. As
@Hal mentioned, the Sugar Magnolia hypertendril trait is nifty.

I was a bit underwhelmed with Opal Creek - the pods were on the small side - but it did seem a bit more heat resistant than my other peas (it was still blooming some after the others shut down). Drop me a PM with your address and I'll be glad to send you some fresh Opal Creek seed.

 

[Hal]

@thistlebloom , I grew both Sugar Magnolia and Opal Creek this year. Both of them reached 7 ft tall before the heat started. As
@Hal mentioned, the Sugar Magnolia hypertendril trait is nifty.

I was a bit underwhelmed with Opal Creek - the pods were on the small side - but it did seem a bit more heat resistant than my other peas (it was still blooming some after the others shut down). Drop me a PM with your address and I'll be glad to send you some fresh Opal Creek seed.

Opal Creek likely got the small pod size from Golden Sweet, I find Golden Sweet to be 1-2 pods per node and even under the best condition not the largest snow pea out there.
I've actually done a cross of Golden Sweet with Yakumo which is a snow pea with up to 5.9 inch very sweet tender pods and I hoping that as it segregates I can select for a yellow snow pea with a large good tasting pod.

 

[thistlebloom]

@thistlebloom , I grew both Sugar Magnolia and Opal Creek this year. Both of them reached 7 ft tall before the heat started. As
@Hal mentioned, the Sugar Magnolia hypertendril trait is nifty.

I was a bit underwhelmed with Opal Creek - the pods were on the small side - but it did seem a bit more heat resistant than my other peas (it was still blooming some after the others shut down). Drop me a PM with your address and I'll be glad to send you some fresh Opal Creek seed.

Thanks Phila'! I'll do that!