The Naming of Leeks

[Penellype]

Here we go again - more confusion.
This is the link I put up earlier for the St. Victor leeks



This is D0bies offering for Northern Lights F1 (British bred).
https://www.dobies.co.uk/Garden/Vege...+F1_436375.htm

The photo is the same for both - and I mean exactly the same.
Who do we believe? Are they F1 or not?
I paid 95p for 300 seeds - Dobies are selling 50 seeds for £2.49.
T&M sell 45 seeds @£2.99 (same photo)

I do wish these companies would agree.

I got mine from T&M, £2.99 for 45 seeds, described as F1 with a similar but not identical picture to Dobies. The foliage is nowhere near as purple as in the pictures, at least not yet. I suppose if we get a very cold spell it might change colour.

These are mine in the tunnel at the allotment - photo taken on 1st January.

[veggiechicken]

Its the same picture on the website - they all have the leeks in a box. https://www.thompson-morgan.com/p/le...brid/tt61859TM

[Small pumpkin]

Here we go again - more confusion.
This is the link I put up earlier for the St. Victor leeks



This is D0bies offering for Northern Lights F1 (British bred).
https://www.dobies.co.uk/Garden/Vege...+F1_436375.htm

The photo is the same for both - and I mean exactly the same.
Who do we believe? Are they F1 or not?
I paid 95p for 300 seeds - Dobies are selling 50 seeds for £2.49.
T&M sell 45 seeds @£2.99 (same photo)

I do wish these companies would agree.

Can we actually trust any seed companies? How can they use the same photo and call them different things. It's very unfair on us the unsuspecting punter.
Very pleased we all have a VC to guide us through the mine field

…….…….and to confuse people even more it depends on which county you live in as to whether it is 3 pot leeks benched to a 5.5 inch tight button for show or two pot leeks benched to a 6 inch tight button. (I may have got that the wrong way round as its ages since I showed leeks.)

You young man are just being deliberately confusing

[veggiechicken]

…….…….and to confuse people even more it depends on which county you live in as to whether it is 3 pot leeks benched to a 5.5 inch tight button for show or two pot leeks benched to a 6 inch tight button. (I may have got that the wrong way round as its ages since I showed leeks.)

Anyone who is prepared to put their 5.5 inch tight button or 6 inch tight button on a bench for judgement deserves to be arrested..

[Aberdeenplotter]

…….…….and to confuse people even more it depends on which county you live in as to whether it is 3 pot leeks benched to a 5.5 inch tight button for show or two pot leeks benched to a 6 inch tight button. (I may have got that the wrong way round as its ages since I showed leeks.)

It could even differ in neighbouring village shows as it's down to each Show's Committee to decide on their rules for their show.

The Criteria I gave was the NVS present measurements.

[Penellype]

Its the same picture on the website - they all have the leeks in a box. https://www.thompson-morgan.com/p/le...brid/tt61859TM

You are right, although the colouring is more extreme on the Dobies photo.

[veggiechicken]

The wonders of photoshop!
Who said the camera never lies?

[Snoop Puss]

^My thought as well.

I've noticed that some sellers use the same photo for every different variety of a particular type of plant.

[Small pumpkin]

VC I think you should buy every variety of violet leek being sold ( with the same photo) and do a trial. Then let us know the difference

[veggiechicken]

Even I'm not that daft!!

[4Shoes]

I have Musselburgh and Elefant.

Not much difference between the 2, only that one goes to seed earlier, and I keep harvesting the other.

[Snadger]

Just pulled a seedhead off a leek on my old plot. Seeds are drying in the cupboard and I have tried to rescue some grass leeks by putting them in a glass of water on windowsill. If they sprout roots I will pot them up.