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["MARIE ASHTON" <bwoodtx@verizon.net>]

You can do several things. - spraying rest breaking chemicals such as dormex you can cause the flower buds to bloom earlier - You can freeze dry pollen for next year from the later blooming trees up north - and you can buy or dig up a tree that is large enough to produce flowers while it is dormant this winter. In the greenhouse it will bloom earlier than it normally would (if it gets enough winter chilling first.) I believe that Out Back Nursery in Minnesota has Pin Cherry trees for sale.

 

Regards,

Richard Ashton

Oak Creek Orchard

www.oakcreekorchard.com

bwoodtx@verizon.net

 

----- Original Message -----

From: R F Hollaus

To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org

Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 12:32 AM

Subject: [NAFEX] Hybridizing question and the potential to get pollen in spring?

Is there a method of saving dormant adult wood of any stone fruit (prunus) in getting the dormant flowering buds to produce viable pollen, and if so how to proceed?

 

Over a year ago I planted a sweet cherry in my greenhouse and a pin cherry graft in a pot with lots of sun with plans on using pin cherry pollen to hybridize in isolation with the sweet. The good thing is that the sweet cherry is mature enough to experience a second full bloom so should be ready to fruit on gisela-5 but my potted pin cherry (self grafted /mazzard F12/1) probably will not set the amount of pollen I would like to have, if anything.

 

It comes to be a problem since the pin cherry grove is in a much northerly climate and blooms 2 months way too late.

 

RFH

location: Southern Washington State zone-6

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