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  • From: "David Consolvo" <fruitopia@nexet.net>
  • To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Growing Thornless Che
  • Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 22:12:04 -0400

I started my dozen or so che trees by planting loads of wild osage orange
fruit (the larger-than-grapefruit light-green brain-like lumps one sees lying
in masses here and there in September or so. I let those grow a year, then
whip-&-tongue grafted che sticks onto them. They are easy to graft, like
their mulberry relatives.

An internet search found Edible Landscaping in Virginia to be one of only two
nurseries in the U.S (with a web page) to be selling che trees.

Do you like the fruit? I'm soon to harvest my first crop, and I've only had
them once before. They were fresh and watery tasting like watermelon; same
red color too.

David Consolvo
Hungrytown, central Virgina
Zone 7 and rising

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: VBGarden@aol.com
Reply-To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 21:11:41 EDT

>We are in love with our thornless, seedless Che plant....(Cudrania
>tricuspidata). Has anyone experimented with propagation on this? We are
>working with cuttings (obviously) and have had only moderate rooting
>success
>- and that has taken 3-4 months.
>
>Sybil
>
>Sybil Mays
>mays@paradisenursery.com
> <A HREF="http://www.paradisenursery.com/";>Paradise Nursery - Figs & Fruit
> Plants</A>
>6385 Blackwater Road
>Virginia Beach VA 23457
>757-421-0201 FAX 757-421-7043
>
>









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