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[tanis grif <tanisgrif@yahoo.com>]

Are you sure they are seedlings?  This spring I removed some small woven-wire 
deer-
excluders from separate sask./Amelanchier shrubs (Timm, Success, & unknowns) 
and
replaced w/ a larger excluder around the entire patch.  A couple days ago I 
weeded,
and noticed what I thought at first were seedlings, but investigation 
revealed they
are suckers.  In previous years apparently rabbits had kept these trimmed 
down, and
now my deer-excluder-- also a rabbit-excluder-- is allowing them to grow.

And yes I would pot up & grow seedlings, even if Amel.s were less true to 
seed.  In
the woods this spring pulling garlic mustard, I had to wonder "Why bother?!"
considering the numbers of buckthorn & honeysuckle.  Would be nice to have 
more
Amels planted, so the birds can spread around more Amel seeds!  And, I've 
never
tasted an unpleasant Amel.
 

--- "Lon J. Rombough" <> wrote:

> At one time, Saskatoons were grown from seed because they came true 
> over 80 to 90 % of the time.  Odds are very good you will have some 
> decent seedlings from the lot.
> -Lon Rombough
> Grapes, writing, consulting, my book, The Grape Grower, at 
> http://www.bunchgrapes.com  Winner of the Garden Writers Association 
> "Best Talent in Writing" award for 2003.


> On Jun 17, 2006, at 4:38 PM, mIEKAL aND wrote:
> 
> I just discover a lot of seedling popping up around my Regent & Smoky
> saskatoons.  Anyone know what percentage of these are true to seed or
> if they're worth potting up?
> 
> ~mIEKAL

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