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  • From: Lucky Pittman <Lucky.Pittman@murraystate.edu>
  • To: nafex@yahoogroups.com
  • Subject: [nafex] Northern Amelanchier selections in The South
  • Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 10:40:18 -0500

I went back to my NAFEX files and retrieved this discussion I'd saved, from
March 2000 - it might be in the archives somewhere.


>From: <ramoyer@king.edu> (Richard A. Moyer)
>
>Several points:
>1) For Donna and Dan who are in Tenn and Fla, respectively:
>Lucky is right that 'Jennybelle' is perhaps best adapted to warmer
>climes. I have obtained plants from J.S. AKin in LA and Hidden Springs
>Nursery. This is a tree form and not a bush, though I presume it would
>respond to pruning. Hector with Hidden Springs says 'Regent' may be their
>best cultivar. I prefer the latter, my wife the former.
>
>2) RUST: I asked specifically about rust on Juneberries at Southern
>Fruit Fellowship meeting last July. No one in the group has seen it in
>their plantings in the southeast. Perhaps this is one of the few diseases
>we escape. There is a planting of over a hundred AMelanchiers (many
>cultivars) at the Mountain Crops Horticultural Station in Fletcher, NC,
>near Asheville. Viewed these in fruit several years ago and no trace of
>rust on fruit or plants. Rust on Amelanchier, regardless of source, is
>not an issue for us in the southeast, Zone 6-9 as best I can determine.
>We have significant cedar apple rust pressure. I do not spray for it,
>have cedars all around with galls, and have Spigold apple which develops
>CAR each year to varying degrees. My amelanchiers 15 feet away have no
>discernable sign of rust on fruit or leaves.
>When out in Corvallis NCGR several years ago was amazed at the extent of
>rust damage on the Amelanchiers there; some of the same cultivars I have
>here without rust.
>Don't know about multiple strains of CAR, or if it's quince rust, etc. I
>DO get significant rust on Mayhaws here, so much so that I am topworking
>the tree.
>
>Lon, Have seen dozens of native Amelanchiers at multiple locations in
>southern appalachians from 1500 to over 5000'. No rust observed on ripe
>fruit on these, but so far the fruit size and flavor of the cultivars we
>are growing are superior to native fruit we have tasted, so cultivars are
>recommended here. (Native Juneberries at 5000' are ripe in early
>August. (Augustberries, anyone?)
>
>It is my impression that Ken Asmus does not have significant rust pressure
>at his Oikos Nursery site either. have a call into him to check.
>
>To echo Lon, if Amelanchier cultivars don't work for you, look for natives
>for the stuff is all over N. America. But keep in mind that Juneberries
>cultivars do perform well for many in certain parts of the country. Try
>your site and see! In our experience they may need to be coddled to get
>them going, but after that they are great freeze beaters.
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: "Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com> [SMTP:"Lon J. Rombough"
><lonrom@hevanet.com>]
>Sent: Friday, March 24, 2000 12:30 PM
>To: iSMTP@CompServ@King[<nafex@onelist.com>]
>Subject: Re: [nafex] Re: cooking of fruit seeds and cyanide breakdown
>
>From: "Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>
>
>This is something I keep harping on. Most of the commercially available
>Juneberries are selections from other climates - particularly Canada - and
>are not suited to local environments in many places. But Amelanchier is so
>widespread that it ought to be possible to select local cultivars almost
>everywhere. I have a local selection of A. alnifolia that gets less than 5%
>rust when the Canadian selections are totally wiped out (all fruit infected)
>with rust. I'm sure there are even better selections to be had. Instead of
>buying cultivars, NAFEXers need to go out and FIND local selections - they
>grow in fence rows, around larger trees, anyplace the birds drop them.
>Propagation could even be by seed, for a while. Then you own't have the
>problems you have with the commercial ones.
>-Lon Rombough
>----------
> >From: "Christopher Mauchline" <mauch1@aol.com>
> >To: nafex@onelist.com
> >Subject: [nafex] Re: cooking of fruit seeds and cyanide breakdown
> >Date: Fri, Mar 24, 2000, 7:12 AM
> >
>
> >From: "Christopher Mauchline" <mauch1@aol.com>
> >
> >Juneberries have been a disappointment for me as well. Beautiful
> >spring blossoms and then nothing. The fruit gets fungal fruiting
> >bodies and the plants get either cankers or branches get swollen and
> >deformed. Have Jennybelle and A. Xgrandiflora. Same symptoms on
> >both. I attribute the fruit fungal problem to possibly Cedar apple
> >rust, but that's a guess. Does anybody have any other ideas?
> >
> >Chris Mauchline
> >SE PA, zone 6
>
>
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Lucky Pittman
USDA Zone 6
Hopkinsville, KY




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