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  • From: Claude Jolicoeur <cjoli@gmc.ulaval.ca>
  • To: nafex@yahoogroups.com
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] Blueberries
  • Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2001 22:43:31 -0500

Doreen and Ginda,
Thanks a lot for your comments on blueberry.
If others have information on these blueberries (hybrid highbish/lowbush:
Chippewa, Friendship and St-Cloud), wether their origin, parentage or other
things, I would appreciate.

Claude

A 19:20 01.01.31 -0600, vous avez écrit :
>Claude,
>I grew Chippewa in Springfield, IL, which is USDA zone 5b. It did well and
>had fruit on it the second spring. The only problem I had with it was
>rabbits! Finally had to cage it with chicken wire to get it going.
>Chippewa was a nice size bush, and I planted it next to Northblue for
>pollination.
>Doreen Howard
>Now Zone 4b
>
>I have a couple of St. Cloud. They seem healthy, and the berries taste
>very good. They are sweet and have a good blueberry flavor. They are
>not huge berries, not much larger than the large end of wild
>blueberries. (I was looking for small berries, the better to cook into
>pancakes.) Mine are young, and the bunnies got most of the fruiting
>buds last year, so I don't know how productive they are. There are lots
>of buds (behind mesh) this winter. The bushes have attractive fall
>foliage, and the flowers are mildly ornamental, too.
>
>Ginda Fisher


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