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- From: "Wyatt Jones" <wyatt_jones AT netzero.com>
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- Subject: [Market-farming] Berries
- Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 21:20:26 -0400
| I grow some Currants, I agree, a real pain to pick. I think Black currants 
have more issues with disease than the Red ones.  Never understood why 
Black Currants and Gooseberries are legal in Ohio while Jostaberries, which 
are a cross of the two, are banned.  I looked into Paw Paws a while back, I 
know some people who have trouble getting them to fruit but you need to have 
two, preferably the right two, growing together to get good production, They 
like the shade of other trees but I've heard some do ok in the sun.  I was 
looking at nut trees and ran across a lot of sources for them, so many different 
kinds  Nolin River Nursery in KY sells them but I think they get them 
from Peterson's Paw Paws, though they have other varieties as well, some are 
grafted which should speed up fruiting  Nuttrees. net sells a large 
number of Pawpaw seeds from fruits weighing up to a pound and a half.  then 
there is the Ohio Pawpaw association, lots of info on pawpaws around I have more sources but that should give an idea If you get into nuts be aware that a lot of nuts have protangenous and 
Protogynous varieties, I probably misspelled those.  Anyway all that refers 
to the fact that there are male and female flowers and some have male flowers 
that flower first (protangenous) and some have the female flowers first 
(protogynous).  To get full production you really have to match up the 
timing of the different trees so the flowering cycles are complementary using at 
least two varieties, it pays to do the research.  Long term projects those 
anyway  I have some detailed info on the subject, mainly with Black Walnuts 
and Pecans if anybody is interested, it took a while to compile and I never did 
anything with it Then of course I grafted up a hundred Cider apple trees on G30 rootstock 
but that will take a while to produce any results.  Unfortunatly the 
crabapples didn't do well when I put them in the ground for some reason but I 
guess I will try again.  Not great apple country here, soil is too heavy 
but the G30 seems to be the best available for wet heavy soils though the grafts 
can be brittle.  I did up some French varieties, I guess we will see how 
disease resistant they are, I know some aren't.  Frequin Rouge is one that 
is prone to scab in particular but its the main sweet apple used in Norman 
hard cider so I had to give it a go.  Don't get rootstock from Raintree, 
the price was good but they didn't have enough root on them and the size was all 
over the place, Cummins was a lot better and more knowledgeable when I needed 
help. Cornell is coming out with better apple rootstock all the time but its 
taking forever to be able to actually become available  G890 and G 960 look 
promising as does G210 which appears to be the most productive but prone to 
suckering.  Those should be available next year but in limited qtys.  
I've seen trees with them out already in limited numbers but the rootstock is 
scarce to purchase still. Hardy Kiwis are something I've also thought about.  Make sure you put 
them in the sun though, I told somebody about them and they put them in the 
shade then cursed me because they didn't grow well, Don't know what they 
expected.  You can grow them on fences but its better to get them up higher 
on T posts and berry wire.Don't get the self fertile varities, they are inferior 
and don't produce well.   ____________________________________________________________ Warning: Don't Diet Before You See This gundrymd.com http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL3232/581a9110f307e10ec0d5fst02vuc  | 
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            [Market-farming] Berries,
            Wyatt Jones, 11/02/2016
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            Re: [Market-farming] Berries,
            Richard Stewart, 11/02/2016
- Re: [Market-farming] Berries, GarlicGrower, 11/02/2016
 
- Re: [Market-farming] Berries, Richard Robinson, 11/02/2016
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- [Market-farming] Berries, Wyatt Jones, 11/02/2016
 
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            Re: [Market-farming] Berries,
            Richard Stewart, 11/02/2016
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