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["Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>]

Title: Re: [NAFEX] bletting and storage Maclura and Poncirus

Is it necessary to use seed?  Most of the old references talk about living fences of Osage Orange resulting from just pushing pieces of the stuff into the ground so they would root and grow.  If that's the case, seems like you would be ahead of the game to line out cuttings.
-Lon Rombough
>  On the Osage (Maclura pomifera), MANY of the seeds have already rotted
> (or been infested with some sort of tiny bug??). If the fruit is still
> greenish/yellowish, seeds seem to be fine, BUT hard to separate.  Any
> suggestions on separation, as well as storage?  We would like to hold some
> over for next year - not to mention next year we want to harvest a lot more
> and to prevent the losses we have had this year to "rot" or "bugs" will
"process" sooner and then store the seed.