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["Erdman, Jim" <ErdmanJ@uwstout.edu>]

Sorry to say, but none of my seeds made it, even though I thought I really 
babied them.
 
Jim Erdman, Menomonie, WI
 
 
 
-----Original Message----- 
From: del stubbs [mailto:pinewoodel@hotmail.com] 
Sent: Sun 9/22/2002 11:40 PM 
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org 
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Subject: [NAFEX] one apricot less/ seed propagating



        For those I sent seeds to last year of the large apricot tree that 
bore so
        heavily on the Bemidji college campus (25 miles from here  
Z2/3).....I'msad
        to say it is no more. Was by there yestereday and a bulldozer had just
        finsihed its work of widening the sidewalk.  She  was a beauty, 8" 
trunk at
        waist high. Hope your seeds carry it on.
        Regarding seed peopagating....the ones I stratified in the fridge of 
this
        apricot tree came alive 2 months earlier than the ground planted 
ones, I had
        to baby them along intil frost was past, put them in 4" by 12" pvc 
tubes of
        garden dirt.  The ones I sowed in the garden bed  have surpassed the 
early
        ones by double, though they were 2 months later. After this I am just 
puttng
        seeds in the ground.