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  • From: "Lucky.Pittman" <Lucky.Pittman@murraystate.edu>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [NAFEX] mulberry/ juneberries, status report
  • Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 12:17:30 -0500

Rarely do any mulberries make it back to the house, but I have, on a couple
of
occasions, MADE the kids pick a quart or two to make pies with. The kids and
I usually just congregate around the trees and graze 'til we pick 'em all, or
get full.
The two young M.alba seedlings -one was supposed to be a named variety, the
other was supposed to be M.rubra - but neither are what they were purchased
as
- are ripening a few fruits here and there - picked a few while I was mowing
last weekend. Illinois Everbearing and Collier are turning red, and the
young
"Packy" from scions Gordon sent me a couple of years back is ripening a few
berries this year.
Checked my juneberries this morning - there'll be some ready to pick - if the
birds don't get 'em first - within a week.

Even my pluot set a few fruits this year - 'course, the curculios have
already
been at work on them.
Evans and Montmorency cherries are bearing good crops this time - haven't
looked at 'em in a week or so, but don't suspect that they're ripening just
yet.
Sparse bloom and fruit set on any of the apples - some bloomed last fall,
after severe drought stress followed by good late summer/early fall rains
Pears have set decent crops, and I think we had enough frost during/after
bloom, that I won't need to do much thinning(like I ever do it anyway) on my
Asians.

Lucky Pittman
Hopkinsville, KY




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