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["Robert Bruns" <r.fred.bruns@gmail.com>]

I also got a seedling goumi (Raintree was giving them away for free as a promotion).  The fruit is sour and also very small (nearly BB-sized).  Unless you like rolling the dice, I wouldn't recommend buying a seedling.

 

Based on these results, I bought a Sweet Scarlet three years ago, but it has barely grown and is still only three feet tall.  On the other hand, the seedling grew like a weed.  

Fred
Central Indiana

Zone 5b 

 

On 7/11/08, Hector Black <hblack1925@fastmail.fm> wrote:

Hank, Thanks for your plug for Hidden Springs Nursery.   My favorite also,
though it's all my daughter's now.
  Hector

----- Original Message -----
From: "Hank Burchard" <hank@burchard.org>
To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 9:54 AM
Subject: [NAFEX] goumi


> My goumis, which came from Hidden Springs Nursery in 2004 with no
> varietal name indicated, have been something of a disappointment. I got
> my first crop this spring (in May!) and found the fruit -- of which
> there wasn't much -- rather insipid. From two plants I got barely two
> cups of juice. Perhaps the yield and flavor will improve in later
> seasons, but the goumi's performance is unimpressive compared to my
> autumn olives, also from Hidden Springs (my favorite nursery), which I
> use to make jelly.
>
> The AOs -- which USDA has sensibly renominated "Autumnberry" because
> there's nothing olive-like about the fruit -- began bearing in the
> second year and regularly produce more than 20 pounds of fruit each with
> casual harvesting. They require no care, respond to top pruning by
> producing more and larger fruits on the remaining branches, seem
> indifferent to drought and temperature extremes, and shrug off extremely
> heavy browsing by the whitetailed deer that infest my property. I bought
> all  six varieties HS offers, and like them all, but the sport called
> Charlies Golden is so clearly the best that I have planted four more of
> them. The fruit is an attractive golden yellow, the yield is high and
> the flavor is outstanding.
>
> Hank Burchard
> Pecker Wood Farm
> Amherst VA (7b)
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