Peter,
Guag Meister wrote: > Hi David ; > > I have one other customer in Oregon, but just planted this year and no winter > experience yet. Why don't you send me your address offlist and I will send > you 20 seeds. I just ask for an occasional status report so I can update the > site. The flowers bloom quickly after planting (3 months), the fruits take a > few months, the root tuber might survive the winter, it might work. > That is a very gracious offer. I will, as you request, respond privately with my address. Please allow me in return to send you a copy of The Complete Biogas Handbook, if you would be so kind as to send me your address as well. Last year I grew 3,000 starts in a greenhouse beginning in February, with what I expected would be two months before I could put things in the ground. That worked well for my tomatoes, not as well for the cantaloupe, very poorly for the corn (an experiment in any case). Perhaps Gâc fruits would respond well to transplantation, but if there is a substantial tuber, as you indicate, they may not. If time allows, I will try starting potatoes (both /solanum/ and /ipomoea/) next year in the greenhouse as well to have a rough analog for comparison. I know that Vietnamese is a tonal language, and so the pronunciation guide on your site would have to be approximate, but whether it's closer to GAK or GUK, I think the name may have to change if the plant is to become established in the marketplace in the US et al. None of the noises I find myself making in order to try to pronounce the name sounds particularly refreshing, tasty or nutritious. What is the translation, if there is one, of the fruit's name? d. -- David William House "The Complete Biogas Handbook" |www.completebiogas.com| "Make no search for water. But find thirst, And water from the very ground will burst." (Rumi, a Persian mystic poet, quoted in /Delight of Hearts/, p. 77) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20081123/0360d25e/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
