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[John S <swim_at_svc@yahoo.com>]

Mark,  Would you kindly and privately mail me the name of the nursery?  The one I had a problem with was asked to notify their customers of the wrong variety and, I believe, promised to do so.  I got my misidentified "goumi" via mail order from a company in your part of the country.  I hate to see stuff mis-identified.  With the time, money and work invested in bringing a tree to bearing years, this is not a small thing.

If appropriate, I too would be interested in some goumi seeds for purchase or trade.  First dibs to Mark, of course.

Thanks

John



--- On Thu, 7/3/08, piper33@verizon.net <piper33@verizon.net> wrote:

From: piper33@verizon.net <piper33@verizon.net>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Goumi 'Sweet Scarlet' (Eleagnus multiflora)
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Thursday, July 3, 2008, 2:04 PM

Two people have replied to my Goumi e-mail saying Sweet Scarlet bears fruit in the spring. My mystery plant bears fruit in the fall. I just googled "autumn olive" and found pictures of the same fruit I have. Mystery solved. I have autumn olive, Elaeagnus umbellata.

So I still want to grow Goumi, Eleagnus multiflora. I would be interested to hear from anyone that has spring-bearing Goumi and could either send me a start or some fresh seeds. Contact me off-list to arrange this.

-Mark Lee, Seattle zone 8

On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at  7:45 AM, Matt Demmon wrote:

I can not remember which variety I got right off the top of my head, because the variety I wanted was out and they sent another, but I have a goumi, and after 1 year, and only two fruits, I can say that they are definitely 1/2 inch in one direction but not the other. ;) And it does fruit early in the year, not in fall. The fruit was much larger and higher proportion of flesh to seed than even the largest autumn olives I've seen.

-matt

z5 se michigan

On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 5:38 PM,  < piper33@verizon.net> wrote:

I purchased Goumi 'Sweet Scarlet' (Eleagnus multiflora) about 7 years

ago. I get lots of blooms for the bees. I also get lots of fruit, but

they are small. I picked enough fruit in an hour last year to make one

bottle of wine. It turned out to be an excellent wine (hints of guava)

that my friends selected in a blind taste test over commercial white

wine. The descriptions I have for the Sweet Scarlet variety says the

fruit should be 1/2" diameter. Mine is half that size. I bought my plant

from a respectable nursery, but I'm wondering if I just have a seedling

rather than the large-fruited selection. Or maybe mine was grafted onto

seedling rootstock and the top of the graft died. Does anyone grow Sweet

Scarlet Goumi with truly large (>=1/2" diameter) fruit?

-Mark Lee, Seattle, zone 7

picking strawberries. honeyberries and rhubarb are done. raspberries

just starting

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