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["bluestem_farm@juno.com" <bluestem_farm@juno.com>]

We've got some growing wild on our farm, which I think must be 
seeding themselves around as I've found plants in 3 spots so far.  I 
call them 'whitecaps' even though they are more of a very pale 
pinkish Anglo-who's-been-out-of-daylight-too-long color.  They seem 
to be less vigorous than the blackcaps, but taste almost the same 
(maybe weaker) and the birds don't seem to want them.  With all this 
stuff coming out about flavonoids and so on, I wonder if it isn't 
that they can taste the absense of flavonoids and know that the 
berries aren't going to be as good for them and so don't bother as 
long as alternatives are out there.  Just a thought. 
Muffy Barrett
South-Central Wisconsin


-- "V. Michael Bove, Jr." <vmb@teakettlefarm.com> wrote:
I'm wondering whether anyone else on the list is growing "black"  
raspberries that have bud-sported over to producing yellowish 
fruit.   
I have a couple of such plants that I believe to have originated a  
number of years ago in a batch of rooted Cumberland cuttings.    
They're a little more vigorous than the other blacks, have a  
decidedly odd taste that nevertheless goes okay with vanilla ice  
cream, and the fruit has a really unattractive color scheme (imagine  
Gulden's brown mustard with faint streaks of black shoe polish  
running through it), but _darn_ are they productive even in the  
unirrigated acidic weedy and poorly-lit corner to which they've been  
exiled.
--Michael Bove
Teakettle Farm, MA/RI border (zone 6)

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