Johnny's Selected Seed
JSS signature multicolored mix.
Lightly savoyed, green or bronze leaves with stems of many colors including gold, pink, orange, purple, red, and white with bright and pastel variations. The flavor is milder than ordinary chard, with each color a bit different. Direct seed or grow from transplant which allows separating out the individual colors. Suitable for production year round, but somewhat less frost hardy than normal for chard. The late New Zealand amateur breeder John Eaton developed Bright Lights, and Johnny's selects and maintains the different color stocks and produces the seeds. AAS winner. Decorticated (rubbed) seeds. Avg. 29,500 seeds/lb. Packet: 200 seeds.
https://www.johnnyseeds.com/p-5877-bright-lights.aspx
After looking at many sites, only Johnny's Selected Seeds called them a mix.
Anyway, Here's my collected seed. Some from a red stem and yellow. If they have crossed, will I have green chard????????????
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Some of the fruit capsules are quite large.
Eric
This is also my first year of letting my bright lights chard go to seed, so I will see what happens. It was an experiment, that I may not repeat because it took SO loooong to actually produce any seed. Sat in my garden most of the season doing not much but taking up space. I finally gave up on it and chopped some of the stalks off and it started sprouting leaves again! Mostly I just scattered seed around the bed it is in; see what comes up in spring.