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Originally Posted by 2nd Foundation
Thanks simmran1! Sending pm!
You posted exactly the kind of information I'm looking for!
Cuostralee, Box Car Willie, and Aker's West Virginia I'm adding to my 'wish list.' And I'll look more closely at the Bratkas you suggested.
Thanks again,
Caroline
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Caroline, please look at the post I just did as to splitting. I've grown all the ones just mentioned, and when someone refers to Bratka ones most of the time they're talking about ones that Joe Bratka's father bred which are Mule Team, Box Car Willie, Red Barn, Great Divide and Pasture.
I know them well since when Joe found them in a toolshed in glass jars, already named, he couldn't germinate the seeds, sent them to me and I was able to get the above ones going.But as grown by me none of them are always tolerant of splitting.
Aker's West Virginia is a great variety, but again, it depends on the season it's grown in as to all the variables that go into splitting as to whether it will have splits or not, which is true of almost all the now over 3,000 varieties I've grown.
Best to just grow varieties yourself and see how they do as I see it.
Carolyn