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  • From: "Peter Knop" <knop@erols.com>
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  • Subject: [NAFEX] hardy figs in zone 6 anyone?
  • Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 13:10:45 -0400

Anyone in zone 6 with figs out of doors? If so, named varieties?
Peter Knop zone 7 northern VA
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> Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 00:11:26 -0700
> From: Rick Valley <bamboogrove@cmug.com>
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] asian lady bugs
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> Every house I have lived in with a decent southern exposure, during my
> recent 10 year spate of nomadics, has FILLED with these coleopterans each
> winter. True, I've had no aphid problems on the plants I've brought in in
> the winter, and the orgies are entertaining (aphids provoke sexual frenzy
in
> the ladybug) But! try reading at night with just one light on... they will
> all fly to it. And at least a percentage seem to randomly taste whatever
> they are walking across. Which means you in the circumstance.
>
> -Rick
>
> no southern exposure this year!
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> Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 09:47:00 -0400 (EDT)
> From: rmelrose@bluemoo.net
> Subject: [NAFEX] About these US-Canadian import-export controls:- a
> short rant
> To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
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> So, do you cunning Canadians really have something evil up there that we
> don't have down here, 60 miles from the border? It seems to me that just
> about every fruit-destroying bug that will survive the cold is already in
> residence. For instance, I would feel better about the Asian ladybugs
> getting up my nose if the Colorado Potato Beetle population went down when
> they went up. For the last two years we have had boom populations of both;
> seems to me those little coloured Asians are not doing their job and I
have
> a lack of potatoes to prove it!
>
> And, what about the asymmetry here, that Canadians can import freely and
we
> cannot? Don't you guys know who the evangelists of free trade are? Maybe
> the USDA knows that the Canadian-trained bugs will be polite enough to
stop
> at the border, whereas the US-trained ones will not.
>
> Okay, so after that little rant I feel better. I have asked this question
> before but did not get any answers (and I don't suppose the rant above
will
> help, but who knows). Does anyone have actual experience of getting
> clearance to import say scion-wood (or bare-root whips for that matter)
> from Canada to the US? Legally I mean. Is the cost and bureaucratic burden
> such that it is simply impossible to do it on a small scale? Where would I
> have to start?
>
> Richard Melrose
>
> >
> > Message: 7
> > Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 19:54:01 -0600
> > From: "Dean Kreutzer" <deankreutzer@hotmail.com>
> > Subject: [NAFEX] Early Gold Pear Availability
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> > >I had not heard of `Early Gold'; it sounds interesting. Ure has done
> > >reasonably well here in Vermont on the USDA 4a/3b border although I
have
> > >some problems with what may be chlorosis (for instance leaves colouring
and
> > >dropping early). Does anyone know whether EG it is available from
someone
> > >on
> > >this side of the border (or from someone in Canada who will export it)?
> >
> > There are nurseries in Saskatchewan and Manitoba that carry the Early
Gold
> > pear. However, I believe it isn't available in the U.S. as of yet. I
> > wouldn't be able to have any budwood available next spring to due the
> > grasshoppers and drought, but possibly next August in time for budding.
> > Pyrus can be imported into Canada from the U.S. with an import permit,
but I
> > am unsure of the restrictions the other way around.
> >
> > Dean Kreutzer
> > Regina, Saskatchewan Canada
> > USDA zone 2/3
> >
> >____
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 10:42:39 -0500
> From: "Pete" <kc5gxc@neandertech.com>
> Subject: [NAFEX] Re: nafex Digest, Vol 9, Issue 15 LSU Gold
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> Hi Topgun and Group
> I have LSU Gold here in SE LA zone 8b, and it is probably my best fig. My
> tree is about 3 years old , and I am picking figs today off of it...the
> second crop. They are very large and very sweet. I have been picking figs
> all summer from it. I think they started ripening quite a bit later than
> Celsete.
> Texas Everbearing is another still bearing tree with large red figs.
> Italian Honey is good, but not as good as the Gold and is finished bearing
> here.
> Another good fig I have is Green Ischia...still bearing...but the figs
will
> open up and bloom on you if you don't watch 'em.. ....the later figs,
that
> is.
> LSU Purple is not doing as well, the figs stay hard forever. I cook 'em
all
> down , however, and have a pot cooking now. Eat 'em for breakfast and
freeze
> them, can them, and dehy them for snacks, which are very good.
> Good Luck
> Pete z 8b
>
> I have several years experience with LSU gold and sometimes I like it and
> sometimes not. The first year I grew it the skin was so soft that it tore
> during the normal picking process and they turned an awful gray shortly
> after picking. It is very vigorous for me and this past winter while 23
> types froze to the ground, the LSU Gold and the Greek did not die all the
> way back. The Gold came back from a 3 ft. level and the Greek was hardly
> touched.
> Production was much less on the gold and the Greek this year than last.
They
> are in their 4th growing season. The new growth on the gold is at 12 feet
> now at the tallest and several others close to that. Gold usually bears
> heavily and the figs are large so you can fill a container fairly rapidly.
> (It gives a lot of fruit before the drunkard beetle comes to sour it, and
a
> good bit after the beetles are gone.LA experience )Leaves are quite
healthy
> even now.. Gold was near the west wall but so were 6 others that went to
> ground including the golden celeste as it was given to me. Not certain of
> its I.D.
> I would like to hear of other opinions on the LSU gold.
> Topgun
> Zone 7
>
>
>
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