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Saturday, September 25, 2010

Moonshining Cotton Pt.VII

The natural light brown variety.
(I later found out that I had, in fact, planted some natural white seeds. This natural white actually is quite 'white' in the modern sense that's it's almost a blue white-the type of white you'd expect cotton to be.)The fibers themselves are lovely-silvery and even lighter and silkier than expected.

Here we have fibers + their removed seeds; in the yellow lid, pomegranate seeds saved from a fruit (possibly heritage) picked in Williamsburg, VA and longan seeds from fruit picked up at the local Asian store, hopefully not sterile.

And now I am confronted with this.
A whole, gratuitous, bunch of seeds (32/boll to be precise).
So the plants have conspired to secretly sweep me into the strange scene of seed-saving.

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Moonshining Cotton Pt.VI

Strange angle, but they're actually taller than me (~165cm) now.
Which means they like to fall over.
This (heritage cotton) differs from modern cotton that has been altered to grow little more than half the natural height, to cater to the machinery 'necessary' for industrial production.