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["Stephen Sadler" <Docshiva@Docshiva.org>]

My pomegranates were also unusually small - my guess was stress from the
fungus, with them.  

Is it possible with your pears that just the constriction of the footies
held back the size some?

Using them sounds like a good idea, I'll likely try that next season.

~ Stephen

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[mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Mark or Helen
Angermayer
Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 6:53 AM
To: North American Fruit Explorers
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] pomegaranate bagging results

Hi Stephen,

I wonder if nylon "footies" would deter the squirrels.  The nylon would
allow the fruit to breathe a little better.  This year squirrels stripped my
neighbor's Bartlett.  Interestingly, they didn't touch his Duchess pears.

Here's my bagging experience.  My Red Bartlett had a few pears this year and
I bagged half of them with stocking "footies."  The bags protected them from
codling moth.  However, it seemed the unbagged ones were a little bigger
than the bagged.  Is this my imagination, or could the shading from the
nylon inhibit fruit growth?

Mark Angermayer
Zone 5 Kansas