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Old October 12, 2017   #10
Keen101
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Originally Posted by bower View Post
I had a pack of Sugar Anns from Halifax Seed, but some of them are crossed with a shellie. It's annoying to pick through them spitting out the pods that aren't edible.
Not necessarily. I've heard many reports of this phenomenon. I don't currently grow enough snap types to really have been looking for it, but what you observed / experienced may have not actually been a cross but the inherent flaw of the snap peas that also carry the stringless (sin2) gene which is temperature dependent. Apparently you actually need warm weather to get good stringless snap peas whereas in cooler weather they will have more fiber and resemble a shelling pea more.

https://youtu.be/J9pYKgt0VHo?t=16m38s
https://youtu.be/J9pYKgt0VHo?t=17m4s

Peas very rarely cross because the flowers are so tightly closed that few bees can get into the flower unless they chew their way in. And even then pea flowers self pollinate often before they open. Not saying it doesn't happen, but not very often.
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