Sentences with phrase «many viable seeds»

Here I experienced the joy of a chile hunter: I didn't have to get one of the bags of dried peppers, which might have come from somewhere else or be dried too hot to get viable seed.

This cross pollination may result in viable seed.

This chileman's guide attempts to provide guidance on how to identify the best pods for obtaining viable seed as well as highlighting some of the problems and pitfalls that can affect seed viability and quality.

The species produces seeds early in its lifespan, tends to make millions of viable seeds during its life, and continues to produce seeds for decades and, in some cases, for more than a century.

«As long as the older trees are not so stressed that they do not produce many viable seeds, [and] the dispersal mechanism — for example, wind, birds, mammals — is present, and the habitat where the seed lands has the appropriate soil, nutrients and temperature,» says biologist Terry Root of Stanford University, who was not involved in the study, «then the trees will be able to shift.»

The most ancient viable seed, from a 2,000 - year - old date, was excavated from a fortress near the Dead Sea.

Furthermore, beets are self - incompatible, meaning each plant must have pollen from a genetically different individual to produce viable seed.

Seedling starters can also prevent your garden from being overpopulated after planting too many viable seeds.

This «gift» would have produced no viable seeds for future plantings and would have required a large amount of heavy chemical inputs.

Most TreeHuggers will tell you that without access to decent, viable seed, and without a system for allowing that seed to develop and adapt, the long - term sustainability of our food system is nigh - on impossible.

Not exact matches

So each seed investor comes up with their own «minimum viable relationship» threshold, usually a factor of their investment strategy / velocity, how quickly they can get comfortable with someone and their skill in asking questions which matter.

This is probably the best time for a startup to be raising and or seed capital since 1999, if not the best time ever when one factors in the amounts needed to build a viable company nowadays versus in a decade ago.

Since the pods are not furnace - dried, the seeds are usually viable.

Coconuts are large seeds adapted for water - born dispersal and remain viable after having floated in the sea for six months or more.

An airtight, reusable plastic bag that protects stored rice from moisture, pests, and rats, and keeps rice seeds viable, is now available to Filipino farmers in selected retails stores.

Keeping heirloom seeds alive and viable is the key to preserving our biogenetic diversity.

Hello Dave!I'm wondering if the seeds in a bag of Guajillo chiles I bought yesterday would be viable to plant.

Seeds from immature green pods will not be viable.

-- If the pods are ripe and not green, the seeds will be viable.

Once pods have ripened, seeds are viable and the plants job is done.

An Australian farmer invents a device which kills viable weed seeds by 95 per cent, reducing the need for herbicides.

I'm wondering if the seeds in a bag of Guajillo chiles I bought yesterday would be viable to plant.

In all cases, control measures must be repeated annually for a number of years since garlic mustard seeds can remain viable in the soil for at least seven years.

Seeds in the feces remained intact and viable.

A chemical test revealed that about half of the cockroach - ingested seeds remained viable and that their viability (52.0 %) was not significantly different from that of seeds directly removed from the pulp (49.3 %).

Encased in a water - and airtight coat, seeds can remain viable for extended periods of time, in some cases, more than 100 years.

While the tissue culture samples and several seeds have already started growing in the tissue culture lab, the first seedlings will only be viable by the end of 2018.

It's not yet ripe, so some seeds may not be viable.

«Water managers and state and federal agencies can make decisions about whether cloud seeding is a viable option to add additional water to supplies from snowpack in the mountains.»

But even seeds need occasional replanting to ensure a viable supply, a laborious and costly process called regeneration.

Galloway took soil samples to find out if there were still any viable fynbos seeds left in the soils of the former plantation sites.

Pollen in the newly identified varieties is viable at higher temperatures, allowing seed pods to form.

U-M has launched the Monroe - Brown Seed Fund, a new funding vehicle designed to advance the process of transitioning commercially viable engineering and medical research projects to market.

Bottom, different clones of DDX3 - overproducing cells were seeded and the numbers of viable cells were counted at various time intervals (see Materials and Methods).

Researchers determined that using chia seeds to load up on omega 3 fatty acids appeared to be a viable substitute for fueling performance during endurance events.

Mumm's Sprouting Seeds are reliable / viable - producing a good yield.

Fruit seeds are not supposed to be digested, but to pass through and still be viable.

This Andean seed is also a viable source of B vitamins, including thiamin (B1), riboflavin (B2), niacin (B3), pyridoxine (B6), and especially folate (B9 or folic acid), contributing to 11 % of the RDA for this nutrient.

It gives you a chance to weed out the bad seeds and concentrate on the viable candidates who could be your soul mate.

The Ray C. Anderson Foundation has pledged $ 1.5 million over four years to support the Biomimicry Global Design Challenge, a multi-year effort to crowdsource, support, and seed promising innovations inspired by nature.Each yearbeginning in 2016, the Institute and Foundation together will award the $ 100,000 «Ray of Hope» Prize to the most viable prototype that embodies the radical sustainability principles of biomimicry.

Shouldn't books, like products in all other sectors, have to prove they are viable BEFORE getting the seed funding (in this case, an advance) that will help launch them to the next level?

The title of Jemison's novella and exhibition, in tandem with her mining of historical materials, seems to offer the possibility that the seeds of change planted in the past are still viable and ripe for harvest as we imagine what the future can be in the face of ongoing institutionalized racism and systemic inequity.

Do you know where I can buy viable hemp seeds that will germinate?

But once seeds are secured in gene banks, it is a never - ending — and expensive — job to keep them viable: Re-building the ICARDA gene bank will cost $ 2 million, with an additional $ 500,000 needed annually for the next few years to regenerate the seed.

«Regenerating seeds [to keep them viable] is the biggest cost to gene banks — and it's often the first activity that gets cut,» says Luigi Guarino, the trust's director of science and programs.

The premier issue featured perhaps the largest supporter of hemp at the time — Woody Harrelson — who was arrested for planting viable hemp seed in Kentucky in early 1996.