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[hans brinkmann <hans-brinkmann@t-online.de>]

Hallo Megan Lon and Richard,

very interesting...
At Germany we have the Prunus spinosa 'Plena' and 'Purpurea'.
And we have e.g. 6 fruit-cultivars with very plenty of fruits and /or 
very large fruits.
Two fruit-cultivars are even patented.

Because of the typical P. spinosa-escaping-problem I would never use 
seedlings on their own roots.
INRA GF 2069x106/4 is e.g. an excellent  resistant rootstock without 
such a problem, but with one P. spinosa parent (x P. salicina).

ciao
Hans


Spidra Webster schrieb:

> I've been enjoying a number of British podcasts and blogs and many of  
> them have talked about sloes and homemade sloe gin.  Which has fired  
> my desire to add Prunus spinosa to my edible landscape.  However, not  
> only have I only found one US nursery selling it (so far), my quick  
> Googling hasn't turned up any information about improved cultivars.   
> Are there none?  If so, is that because it comes true from seed or is  
> it because sloes are "good enough" for sloe gin and haven't needed  
> any improvement?  I just want to know what's out there before I pull  
> the trigger and make an impulse purchase.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Megan Lynch
>
> Berkeley, CA
> Zone 9b
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