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["Donna &/or Kieran" <holycow@cookeville.com>]

Lori wrote:

"Luckily, my peach-apricot hybrids I've nurtured from
seed for 3 years (got from the organic gardener in Austin, TX) are still in
pots and can be moved. Does anyone on this list have this hybrid?"

Well, actually the seedlings will be novel crosses, and this is interesting. 
They could be crossed to nearby peaches or apricots, or could be selfed so 
the genes would congregate in new combinations.  Is there anyone anywhere 
who has worked with crosses of apricots trying to get something that will 
bloom later?  The trouble is, most anyone who would be working with apricots 
professionally would be in California, crossing with low chill plums.
   I've been thinking.  If I wanted to make some crosses of high and low 
chill stock, I could stick some branches in the fridge from the low chill 
variety.  I had sort of wondered how Hansen did his Jap/Am plum crosses.  We 
have some plums that bloom late enough they cropped after the big Easter 
freeze last year.  Donna