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  • From: "Michael Glassford" <glassfordm@hotmail.com>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Apple pollination question
  • Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 10:15:32 -0400

Definitely not residential suburban, but there are other apples, crab and
otherwise, relatively close. What's the recommended distance for good
cross-pollination?

Mike


loneroc wrote:
> Michael,
>
> I checked University of Minnesota web pages (the U of MN introduced
> your
> apple) for the characteristic in question and found no reference to
> State
> Fair being a self-pollenizer. Nor is this mentioned in any of my
> apple
> texts. In residential suburban settings north of the Mason-Dixon
> line, this
> is rarely an important issue since almost every other house plants an
> ornamental crabapple of some sort. If you have crabs in the
> neighborhood, I
> wouldn't worry too much. On the other hand, who could grow just one
> apple
> tree?
>
> Steve Herje, Lone Rock, WI USDA zone 3
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Glassford" <glassfordm@hotmail.com>
> To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2003 5:04 PM
> Subject: [NAFEX] Apple pollination question
>
>
>> My pastor's wife was given a State Fair apple as an early Mother's
>> Day
>> present. The person who gave it to her was told by the nursery that
>> it is self-pollinating. Two questions:
>>
>> 1) I know that a very few varieties of apples are sometimes said to
>> be
>> self-pollinating. Is State Fair one of these?
>>
>> 2) Is it true that self-pollinating apples pollinate themselves to a
> limited
>> extent, but produce better if cross-pollinated? Or do they do just
>> as well
>> without cross-pollination as with it?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Mike
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