[DD.]

Each little flower that opens...............

[DD.]

I think what you can see is shading on the greenhouse.

[DD.]

Bud count is 80! 

[arugula]

You just keep re-counting, it seems to make them multiply when you look a them! 

[DD.]

The seem to come in clusters of 8 at the end of each shoot.

Make counting easier! 

[allotment-bill]

you doing better than me Ive got about 110 off nine plants at moment but really coming on good now making lots of growth and pea pod forming .

[DD.]

You'll have pods before me, Bill. I'd be interested to know how many you think are in each pod. I'm not expecting loads.

[allotment-bill]

hi pea god if my fathers journal is right you should get five peas to the pod so not bad return ,for your one plant hopefully mine will end up as tall as yours ,

[DD.]

OK Bill, thanks for that. I wasn't expecting many, as they were described as small podded. Just popping outside for a quick bud count!

[DD.]

OK - having established that you get 8 buds, (some are well flowering now) per tip, there are 16 budding tips. That's a potential for 128 pods from this one plant!

That's a possibility over over 600 peas from this one plant if it can support them all.

[JayG]

Gosh, I think you need to start sleeping next to it in a tent in the garden!

(600 seeds this year, world domination of Kent Blue Pea supply in 2013, DD makes his first million, makes John an offer for AVG he can't refuse, also buys up all so-called rival forums   and closes them down!)  

(Sorry, maybe a little too much sun yesterday!)    

[mumofstig]

It does make me wonder if they would all be better off sown a bit farther apart - if that's how they respond when grown on their own - what do you think?

[DD.]

I'm sure that somewhere along the way someone has done the research for getting the maximum yield for a given length of row as opposed to per plant. If you were to do, say a 10' row of these peas with the space this one has got, you would have to space them 2' apart at least, and only get 6 in a row, maybe even only 5 if you didn't want the row to overhang.  At current rate this is a potential yield of  3,600 seeds.

At the usual recommended spacing, you would sow 120 seed, and would only need to get 30 seed back per plant to match the overall yield, this would be more relevant if growing for food with fairly cheap seed.

In this case, I'm not, the aim is to increase the stock from one pea!

To complicate things further, I'm sure this varies from variety to variety.

[mumofstig]

I knew that you would know why not 

[DD.]

It's also a massive assumption at this stage, that all these potential buds are going to turn into full pods!