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[markl <markl@nytec.com>]

Ebay is a source for fresh monkey puzzle seeds.  It looks like there is quite 
a demand for these things.  For an offering of 12 seeds, the bidding started 
at $5, and the bid is now up to $13.  That's over a buck a piece!  Other seed 
sources I looked at are sold out.  If you are sitting on a pile of fresh 
monkey puzzle seeds, now is the time to put them up for bid while the market 
is hot :-)
-Mark

---- North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org> wrote:
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> 
> > From: "Mark Lee" <markl@nytec.com>
> 
> > Where can I find a source of fresh monkey puzzle seed?
> 
> I'm always being asked that! My advice (besides trying a Brit source like
> Chiltern Seeds) would be to check under every female tree you see,
> frequently. It's not hard to recognize them from blocks away. The tree in
> the city park in Anacortes is known for seed, and I've heard Oly and Pt.
> Townsend have bearing trees too, so Seattle must. You may even find
> seedlings in the vicinity.
> 
> -Rick
> 
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Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Cherry Insects
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 16:54:43 -0400 (EST)
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I grow Montmorency in Seattle with no insect damage, except tent catepillars. 
 I pick the catepillar eggs out of the tree during the winter to prevent this 
damage.  Birds are the biggest threat to my sour cherry crop.
-Mark

---- North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org> wrote:
> Charles:
> 
> I live where insects were invented, from whence they subsequently spread 
> to the rest of the world, but I have virtually no insect problems on 
> sour cherries, and I have grown Northstar, and am currently growing 
> Meteor and Montmorency.  Together with Asian pears, it is one of the 
> fruits I really don't have to spray at all.
> 
> The single insect that can trouble my sour cherries is the cherry fruit 
> fly, which shows up as a small, white larvae, usually found when pitting 
> the fruit.  This is a single-generation insect with quite a simple 
> lifestyle.  It hatches out in damaged cherries left on the tree, drops 
> to the ground with the cherries, and burrows into the soil beneath the 
> trees to pupate.  I nearly always hoe around under the cherry trees once 
> or twice in spring, perhaps not all the way out to the drip line but at 
> least until I get tired.  A small motorized tiller would do an even 
> better job.  This disturbs the pupae, exposes them to drying, and 
> greatly reduces the hatch.  They do not burrow very deeply, and if you 
> can hoe 2-3 inches you get them.  In recent years, I have been able to 
> nearly eliminate these larvae from the cherries.  The other factor of 
> course is to clean the tree of cherries to the extent possible at 
> picking time, and discard those that are bird damaged far from the tree.
> 
> Do you have other insects bothering your cherries?  If so, they are not 
> playing fair.  There should be no need to have to settle for small 
> cherries.  I just planted a Balaton and a Danube this spring, and expect 
> to deal with the cherry fly the same way on these new cultivars.
> 
> Don Yellman, Great Falls, VA
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Doreen,
Are you talking about rye grass or cereal rye? This is a very interesting
bit of information.

Joyce