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[Bernie Nikolai <BNikolai@shaw.ca>]

Jim exactly my method for finding a reliable hardy sweet cherry for zone 3.
I had planned to plant thousands of sweet cherry pits one inch apart.  My
thinking is one in 4 would sprout.  Then one in several thousand of those
that sprouted would take -40F.  An of the very, very few that did, perhaps
three or four might be good.  So even though the cherries were to be planted
in a small plot of about 100 ft. by 100 ft., that's still 1,440,000 cherry
pits if planted one inch apart, 360,000 of which sprout (1/4th), 36 that
survive -40F (1 in 10,000), and 3 or 4 that are good (1 in 10).  My problem
was even after contacting several Canadian cherry processing companies and
the government, nobody could supply the seed.  Perhaps someone in the
northern US might have better luck with US processors in getting a couple
sackfulls of sweet cherry pits.
Bernie Nikolai
Edmonton, Alberta
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Fruth" <jfruth@uslink.net>
To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 4:53 AM
Subject: [NAFEX] It works for me


>     For those talking about attempting to grow items one zone colder than
> recommended for any species, listen up.  That's what I do and here's how I
> do it:  At least one seed out of 1,000 should produce a plant that will
> thrive in one zone colder.  And, at least one seed in 100,000 should
produce
> a plant that will thrive in a two zones colder climate.
>     I produced/invented the Pequot Black Raspberry, a zone 3 plant, from
> hundreds of thousands of zone 5 black raspberry seeds.
>
> Jim Fruth
> Pequot Lakes, MN
>
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