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["Martha L. Davis" <martha_davis@earthlink.net>]

I have two of the New Jersey selections, Orange Red and Jerseycot.  Some of 
the other members of the group may have others. I am relatively new to that 
group and am most aware of the things that are being grafted this year & 
last.  At the moment Orange Red appears to be blooming more or less with 
Wilson Delicious and Jerseycot is at most a day or so behind.  The Jerseycot 
is on citation rootstock and may be early due to that.  The Orange Red and 
the Wilson Delicious are grafted onto the same existing unknown tree and 
bloom at about the same time along with Shallah and one of Craig Ledbetter's 
numbered selections 1386-1.  A couple of the Hunza introductions that I 
grafted last year seem to be quite a bit later that most other apricots here 
though it doesn't look much like 2 months. Maybe 2 weeks or so.

Much of the Davis material that is being tested is Hunza material that Maxine 
Thompson collected.

Martha     

-----Original Message-----
>From: "Brungardt, Sam" <Sam.Brungardt@state.mn.us>
>Sent: Apr 11, 2008 12:43 PM
>To: "Martha L. Davis" <martha_davis@earthlink.net>, North American Fruit 
>Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
>Subject: RE: [NAFEX] peach Apricot Hybrids and Apricots
>
>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.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>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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