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- From: "Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>
- To: <nafex@yahoogroups.com>
- Subject: Re: [nafex] pollination
- Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 15:27:54 -0700
Get some orchard bees. They do a much better job than honey bees. If
anything, you may wind up having to thin them. It only takes a handfull of
the tubes to get you started and then just make sure they have plenty of
nesting places.
-Lon Rombough
Grapes, writing, consulting, more, plus word on my grape book at
http://www.bunchgrapes.com
on 4/16/02 8:53 AM, fruity08559 at fruity08559@yahoo.com wrote:
> Now that most of the apricots are lost to frost I have turned my
> attentions to the plums that are bloomimg.
> As usual I fret about my Imperial Epineuse as it is my favorite.
> To my surprise the honeys seem to ignore the 5 younger, smaller
> plums next to the big spreading Epineuse.
> Actually all the types of bees and smaller insects seem to
> want only the big plum.
> Iwrry how it will get the cross poll. it needs sorely. otherwise
> it is areal scarce beare.
> Last year I took to hand pollinatin it and got the first
> big crop ever.
> So I guess my question is; "might it still be cross
> pollinated by the inattentive bugs?"
>
> I am getting a small hive of honeys this week but they will
> not be soon enough for the Euro plums . Oh well- maybe next year.
> At least they should hwelp with some of the shy pears this week.
>
> Thanks for any advice you good folks can give.
> Chris Duffy Stockton, NJ
> ( Where the frosts hit hard
> before an 85 degree week)
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[nafex] pollination,
fruity08559, 04/16/2002
- Re: [nafex] pollination, Lon J. Rombough, 04/16/2002
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