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  • From: "Martha L. Davis" <martha_davis@earthlink.net>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [NAFEX] peach Apricot Hybrids and Apricots
  • Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:35:19 -0600 (GMT-06:00)

I have a graft from the Old Bear Creek Nursery Variety Bill's Nectar
Peachcot. It does appear to bloom later than most apricots though it is
more peach than apricot. The New Jersey apricot breeding program is working
on later blooming or resistant flowers. They are more in the climate you are
interested in. Here in New Mexico where there are lots of fluctuating
temperatures in the last week we have had highs in the 40-60 degree range and
lows from 25-37. There is a group testing both named varieties and various
introduction from the Davis germplasm repository. If we find anything
wonderfull we'll let people know, though here the humidity related disease
aren't so much of a problem here so we don't check on that much if at all.

Martha

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






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