Can you tell the variety of pea from the seed?

**jojo2910** · 13-03-2011, 08:22 PM

P.S they were from a weigh your own station, so no packet. Also I've moved in the last year so don't live near the garden centre to revisit and can't remember where I bought them anyway.

**zazen999** · 13-03-2011, 09:04 PM

Bright pink? Are they treated with a fungicide?

**Flummery** · 14-03-2011, 11:16 AM

Pink is not a normal colour for peas! I also suspect fungicide. If they are wrinkly they will be a sweeter, main crop type. The ones you can plant extra early are round seeded and not quite so sweet. I don't think, apart from one or two types like salmon flowered and the like, that I'd attempt to name a variety from a seed.

**jojo2910** · 14-03-2011, 08:08 PM

Thanks both, I thought it a long shot. I have no idea if they are treated with anything. I bought them, put them in a bag, didn't get chance to grow them and forgot to write the name down. Oh well, we see what comes of them.

**Jeanied** · 14-03-2011, 08:28 PM

It could be mouse deterrent the seeds were rolled in that made them pink.
They used to use parrafin for that too.
I once bought sweetcorn seeds that were treated and they were pink as well.

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