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["Mark or Helen Angermayer" <hangermayer@isp.com>]

Not to add to the gratuitous violence Lucky mentions :-) but I've heard
stabbing a shovel all the way around the drip line shocks a tree into
reproduction.

Mark

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lucky Pittman" <>
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 9:57 AM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] A date in the life of jujube farmers (China Daily)


> At 09:14 AM 11/30/2006, Tom wrote:
> >Sounds like a wound is inflicted on the tree, spurring reproduction
> >activities.  This works with many plants.
>
> At the risk of inciting my beloved female NAFEX friends to come after
> me with pitchforks and torches, there's an old saw:
>
> " A dog, a wife(husband), a hickory(or jujube) tree,
> The more you beat 'em, the better they be."
>
> Now, I would NEVER advocate beating your dog, or your wife, but
> there's a lot of anecdotal, and some scientific evidence, that
> beating a fruiting tree can incite heavy production.
>
> In some of the old Southern pecan orchards, they bring senescent
> trees back into production while new trees are coming along by
> drastic pruning - shearing off all major limbs on one side, each year
> for 4 consecutive years(north side one year, south the next, east
> next, then west, etc.) - I've even seen some, lately, that were
> sheared back to a single stub, sticking up 10-15 ft in the air.  Not
> pretty, but if they can get 8-10 years worth of production out of the
> old trees while the new ones are reaching bearing age, they can
> maintain some level of cash flow, removing the old trees once the new
> ones come into production.
>
> Lucky
>
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