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["Mike Levine" <mlevine30@comcast.net>]

I would say that is normal (for my taste).  I like them best when they are just changing from red to purple so that the handfuls I stuff in my mouth are mixed with tart, sweet, and a little bitter.  My partner likes them a little more on the purple side and doesn't seem to notice the bitterness as much as I do.    Once they turn dark purple the seeds become more developed and I believe that this is where the prevalent bitter flavor comes from (a little cyanide perhaps?  They are related to apples?).  At that point it's best to put them through the squeezo and make jam/sauce/pie/whatever...Or I just eat them and try to gum it a little so that I swallow the seeds whole.

Some varieties are definitely better (larger/sweeter) than others, but I haven't had one yet that didn't taste good at some stage of ripeness.

I'm noticing that my stoloniferas are later to ripen than the others. 

 

 

Mike Levine

Ann Arbor, MI

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Mark Lee

To: 'North American Fruit Explorers'

Sent: July 06, 2004 11:17 AM

Subject: RE: [NAFEX] saskatoons

This is the first year I have had a crop of juneberries.  When they started to turn color from pink to blue and purple back in June, they were sweet and fruity.  I left a few on the bush to see what would happen.  Now they are dark purple with a blueberry flavor, but they have also become bitter.  I don’t like the way they taste now.  Is that normal, or do I have a less than desirable seedling?  This bush was sold as an ornamental, not as an edible selection.

-Mark Lee, Seattle

 

-----Original Message-----
From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of LEE REICH
Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 11:12 AM
To: North American Fruit Explorers
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] saskatoons

 

Quoting fromm my the chapter on juneeberries in my new book UNCOMMON FRUITS FOR EVERY GARDEN (Timber Press, 2004),

"Juneberries are highly self-fertile and plants grown from seeds often closely resemble their parent---about eighty percent of plants will be "true" from seed. (Exceptions are the white-fruited juneberries, which must be cross-pollinated, so do not come true from seed.) There are two keys to good seed germination: do not allow seeds to dry out; and stratify the seeds for three or four months. If seeds do dry before they are stratified, they might need a long period of warm stratification followed by cold stratification, that is, if you sow dried seeds in spring, they may not emerge until the following spring."

So it sounds like you did the firght thing, assuming your propagation meeting was suitable, you did not bury the seeds to deeply, and you waited long enough.

Lee Reich
 www.leereich.com
 

M Rose wrote:

 I would like to grow some amelanchier alnifolia from seed. Last year I planted fresh, moist seed (straight from the berries) in July and the results this spring were disappointing. Is a sulfuric acid seed treatment needed on fresh seed or just old dry seed? Just wondering what others have tried and what kind of results you get. I had only about 5% emergence. Thanks! Michael RoseGrand Forks, NDZone 3

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