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  • From: "Richard J. Ossolinski" <osso@acadia.net>
  • To: nafex@egroups.com
  • Subject: [nafex] Re: NAFEX: more than Cox's, etc.
  • Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2000 11:13:53 -0500

Thanks, Derry,
You have just made yet another case for the importance of good reference
material (as opposed to glitzy catalog descriptions) and consultation with
those who have "been there, done that" as means of avoiding pitfalls
(disappointment) thus tilting the scales toward success (satisfaction) for
those of us who might have the desire and enthusiasm to pursue our interests
in fruit growing but who might still lack the knowledge that helps insure
success. Responses like yours (and Ed's and Lon's, etc., etc. i.e. the voices
of experience answering the queries of the willing but yet uneducated)
constitute the very backbone - the lifeblood - of this incredible NAFEX
organization which, of late, seems to have become a bit distracted. Thanks
again.
Richard

dwalsh/wchase wrote:
>
> Richard,
>
> Cox's Orange does not grow well here. Our soils are too acid ... Cox's
> really is a
> limey tree.
>
> I dump dolomite lime on my CO 2 x year and get quite a good crop.
>
> Oh, yes, they are very vulnerable to that killer of young apple trees,
> anthracnose
> canker. Mine have survived because they are sheltered for most of the year.
>
> I've had better success with a CO cross named Fiesta, BUT Fiesta needs heavy
> thinning and drops early. Fiesta's flavour is very Cox-like and it looks
> better
> and stores better... well into March.
>
> Derry
>
> Derry Walsh & Bill Chase email:wchase@interchange.ubc.ca
> Aldergrove, B. C., Canada
> phone/fax (604) 856-9316
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> Home web page http://www.interchange.ubc.ca/wchase/HTML
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>
> : Derry,
> : Can you grow them there, or do you have to "import' them? Had my first
> : cropping of them here (Maine) this year, and they were superb!
> : Richard
>

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