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[rob hamilton <lostman_amiga@yahoo.com>]

I havent heard anything about this "Packy" and
Stearns.  Could you share some more details?

Robert


--- Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>
wrote:
> At 06:46 PM 7/14/2004 -0400, you wrote:
> >Dear Folks,  Anybody else have an exceptional
> mulberry season?
> 
> My two Illinois Everbearing trees had their typical
> good crop of tasty 
> berries, and will probably wind up the season in
> another week or two.  A 
> young Collier bore a nice crop, it's first, and I
> was pleased with fruit 
> size and taste.
> A branch of Stearns, grafted onto Gordon Nof's
> "Packy" selection bore a 
> nice crop of good quality berries.
> "Packy" sort of redeemed itself this year - it may
> have just needed a 
> little more maturity, but it bore nice, tasty
> berries.  It's now a 
> multi-variety tree, fostering a number of varieties
> that may not be winter 
> hardy here, high-worked onto upper branches.
> I didn't get a chance to check on the ortets of my
> favorite local M.rubras, 
> and the grafts of them that I have growing at the
> house didn't fruit this year.
> The M.alba seedlings planted at the edge of the
> orchard bore their typical 
> heavy crop of small, tart berries, but the birds
> liked them, and largely 
> left the cherries alone and stayed out of the
> blueberries until those 
> mulberries were gone.
> 
> 
> 
> Lucky Pittman
> USDA Cold Zone 6
> AHS Heat Zone 7
> Hopkinsville, KY
> 
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