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- From: "Erdman, James" <ErdmanJ@uwstout.edu>
- To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [NAFEX] apricots from seed
- Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 07:35:18 -0500
Karen wrote:
> My largest apricot, which is either Sungold or Moongold, had a bumper
> crop last week. I ate as many as my stomach could tolerate; dried a
> few hundred, and made a rhubarb-apricot jam. The tree is from Fedco;
> it was visited by a welcome swarm of bees as it bloomed this spring.
> Fruit had surface blemishes, but was GOOD!
> I've been told it is grafted; any reason to save and grow the seeds??
You never can be sure what you will get from seed. At worst, some rootstock
to experiment with, at best, a new variety better than any other available.
Of course, it is much more likely to just raise some rootstock, but that is
what I am hoping to do with the seeds that I have been planting.
Jim, in Menomonie, WI
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Re: [NAFEX] apricots from seed
, (continued)
- Re: [NAFEX] apricots from seed, loneroc, 07/25/2007
- Re: [NAFEX] apricots from seed, Karen Kellogg, 07/25/2007
- Re: [NAFEX] apricots from seed, MARIE ASHTON, 07/25/2007
- Re: [NAFEX] apricots from seed, loneroc, 07/26/2007
- Re: [NAFEX] apricots from seed, Mark & Helen Angermayer, 07/26/2007
- Re: [NAFEX] apricots from seed, S & E Hills, 07/26/2007
- Re: [NAFEX] apricots from seed, Richard O'Barr, 07/24/2007
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Re: [NAFEX] apricots from seed,
S & E Hills, 07/25/2007
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Re: [NAFEX] apricots from seed,
Mark & Helen Angermayer, 07/26/2007
- [NAFEX] Greenmantle Nursery, Michael Nave, 07/26/2007
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Re: [NAFEX] apricots from seed,
Mark & Helen Angermayer, 07/26/2007
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