The river-vineyard has 5 of 6 rows planted. To check my
record keeping, I tried to 'balance' the 'new vineyard' spreadsheet,
which was started when I cleaned the seeds and has been updated
periodically ever since, against what I counted in the river-vineyard
and 14 remaining pots.
Here is what I discovered. The
river-vineyard has 3 sets of mystery plants, plants with suspect
lineage. First, there are offspring of Rich's 'mystery vine'. Rich's
mystery vine is one of his favorites. Seedlings
from this vine are among the most vigorous river-vineyard vines. Pedigree? Oh, well...
Second,
there is the pot whose label said 'Missing spoon'. The pot was planted
out and covers 14 dripper locations, the largest group we planted. I
use plastic spoons covered with metalic tape to record the cross in each
pot. This pot seems to have lost its spoon, so at some unrecorded
moment this spring, I put a 'missing spoon' spoon in that pot.
After
carefully checking my spreadsheet, all the river vineyard vines and
remaining pots, there were only two spreadsheet entries that were not
accounted for:
CA 06-38-1 x Carnelian (on 5/4/13, my records said there were 20 seedlings)
Doaniana Montague x Carnelian (on 5/4/13 there were 5 seedlings)
Since
we planted 14+ seedlings, the 'missing spoon' pot was probably 'CA
06-38-1 x Carnelian'. The Doaniana x Carnelian pot was probably the one
attacked by snails, and got removed at some point. (I only had one pot
suffer from snails)
I'll leave the '?' on the label until the seedlings grow out and we can confirm the guess.
Finally,
there was one pot with a label that wasn't in my spreadsheet: Z89-9-3 x
Cabernet Sauvignon. The label is pretty clear about what it says, so
I'm very sure it wasn't in my spreadsheet. What can I say, it is
another mystery. I'm just going to add it to the spreadsheet now, and
plant the pot. Additionally, there was an extra unplanted 'Doaniana
Montague x Cab' pot. Having two Cabernet crosses omitted from the
spreadsheet is troubling, but the labels are both explicit (and in my
hand writing).
Mea culpa. My record keeping has flaws. All I can do is record the issues as I find them.
If you have gotten this far, here is a screen shot of my spreadsheet. The top 14 entries are "row 6" of the new
river-vineyard. The 'planting or greenhouse' numbers are for 'dripper
sites'. Generally, there are two seedlings at each dripper location.
Below
that is an inventory of the seedlings still in pots. For these
entries, the 'planting or greenhouse' number is a direct count.
The first 5 river-vineyard rows are shown in my 7/11/13 entry.
Click to enlarge...
Here is an update on this year's seedlings as of 7/8/13. Of note,
the z89-9-3 x Jupiter has been the weakest cross as a group. I'm having
to work to keep 3 seedlings alive, hiding them from the sun. Rich's
Montague x French Mystery vine seems to be the healthiest.
I'm still planting seedlings as they get large enough to handle the sun. A new row will probably get planted this weekend.
Click on the list to enlarge it.
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