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  • From: "Brungardt, Sam" <Sam.Brungardt@state.mn.us>
  • To: "Martha L. Davis" <martha_davis@earthlink.net>, "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] peach Apricot Hybrids and Apricots
  • Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:43:55 -0500

Martha, are any of you testing any of the New Jersey selections, some of
which are supposed to bloom much later? -- Sam Brungardt, St. Paul,
Minn.

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From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Martha L. Davis
Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 1:35 PM
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [NAFEX] peach Apricot Hybrids and Apricots


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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