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- From: Stefan Brandle <sbrandle@css.taylor.edu>
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- Subject: [NAFEX] Pixie crunch fruiting in fall
- Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 20:28:32 -0500
My little pixie crunch got frozen out this spring along with the rest of the plants. I noticed sometime in September (or so) that it was flowering again. I patted it gently on the head (so to speak) and told it that I appreciated the effort, but that it shouldn't get too set on producing fruit. "Wait until next spring and fruit your heart out then" I advised it.
Anyway, it has fruit on it. About 3/4 inch diameter (~2cm). Given where the temperatures are heading, this is not going to end well. But here's the point of this posting: Could pixie crunch be self-fertile? To the best of my knowledge, nothing malus-ish of mine was blooming. There may have been some flowers on a neighbor's crab. I didn't look at the time and didn't notice anything. We only have three neighbors who have any form of apple within a 200 yard/meter radius.
So, it doesn't prove anything, but maybe pixie is self-fertile.
-- sb
In zone 4B and changing, where pixies are making magical apples.
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[NAFEX] Pixie crunch fruiting in fall,
Stefan Brandle, 11/18/2007
- Re: [NAFEX] Pixie crunch fruiting in fall, Doreen Howard, 11/18/2007
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- [NAFEX] Pixie crunch fruiting in fall, Pete Tallman, 11/18/2007
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