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["Tim Inman" <Tim@historicinteriors.com>]

Here's what I'd do:  Plant the seed and let it grow to first fruit.  If you 
win, you win.  If you don't get a good plum (likely), at least you will have 
a good plum rootstock growing just exactly where you'd like to have a tree. 
Learn how to do a little grafting and patch something known to be good onto 
the rootstock.  This gives you at least two chances of winning.  My great 
grandfather was famous for doing this at our farm.

Fiddling with fruit for fun is a different game than trying to raise an 
orchard crop for money, so we can get away with little experiments like 
this.  I'd give it a try!

Tim Inman
Randolph, Iowa

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>   1. Re: Charcoal in Soil (and Terra Preta) (jas39a@earthlink.net)
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>   5. death to squirrels (Ernest Plutko)
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> In a message dated 7/31/2008 12:24:42 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> ernestplutko@wiktel.com writes:
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> > Fried gray squirrels are good to eat.  If they are big boil them,
> > bread and fry. Young squirrels are tender.  Look at them as a
> > resource.  When I lived in West Virginia most people ate them durimg
> > hunting season.
>
> Fired squirrel with squirrel gravy & biscuits......you just can't eat 
> better!
> Except maybe for snapping turtle.
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> From: "Brungardt, Sam" <Sam.Brungardt@state.mn.us>
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] squirrels
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> I agree; haven't had fried squirrel with squirrel gravy and biscuits nor
> snapping turtle since I was a kid in Kansas.  They rank right up there
> with fried chicken giblets (livers, hearts, gizzards and lungs) with
> biscuits and onion gravy.
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> In a message dated 7/31/2008 12:24:42 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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> Fried gray squirrels are good to eat.  If they are big
> boil them,
> bread and fry. Young squirrels are tender.  Look at them
> as a
> resource.  When I lived in West Virginia most people ate
> them durimg
> hunting season.
>
>
>
> Fired squirrel with squirrel gravy & biscuits......you just
> can't eat better!  Except maybe for snapping turtle.
>
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> These are all good pieces of information now that food prices are going
> through the roof.
>
> I also understand that grey squirrels are a huge menace in the UK.
> Maybe a new food trend could be encouraged there to reduce grey squirrel
> populations...
>
> Chatter and chips?
>
> But it looks as if I am not the first to think of this:
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2008/may/11/recipes.foodanddrink
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> Betsy Hilborn
> in NC 7a where there are plenty of grey squirrels
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> Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:37:17 -0500
> From: "Ernest Plutko" <ernestplutko@wiktel.com>
> Subject: [NAFEX] death to squirrels
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> Gray squirrels are a horrible pest in your yard or orchard.  They are
> easily killed by using a wire live trap with peanut butter or corn or
> bread as bait. Don't use a .22 to kill trapped squirrels because you
> will get blood on trap or you will hit a wire with bullet and break
> it.  Take trap with squirrel in it and submerge in tub of water to
> drown pest.  Then eat squirrel.  A vertical rat on a tree doesn't
> work well.  Don't talk about pest control because do-gooder neighbors
> will be outraged.
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> Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:14:22 -0500
> From: "Robert C. Mullins" <mullins@gaelicmysts.com>
> Subject: [NAFEX] Plum Question
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> Tasted a plum, it was delicious, saved the seed.  And now the big
> question, if I plant it, will it grow true?
>
>
> --
> Robert C. Mullins M.S. IT
> GaelicMysts Farms and Permaculture, Owner
> Clarksville, Ar
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> Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:33:37 -0400
> From: Steve <sdw12986@aol.com>
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Plum Question
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> Robert C. Mullins wrote:
> > Tasted a plum, it was delicious, saved the seed.  And now the big
> > question, if I plant it, will it grow true?
> About the same chance as winning the lottery.
> If the plum was a wild plum (unimproved by breeding or selection), then
> the seed might produce a tree with very similar fruit. Since you say it
> was delicious, I'm going to assume it was pretty far from a wild fruit.
>
> Steve
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> Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:17:38 -0700
> From: "Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Plum Question
> To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
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> Some European plums will come fairly true to seed.  Green Gage types
> have long been grown from seed in various places.
> I've grown plums from seed and have gotten a good percentage of trees
> that had decent quality fruit even if it wasn't the same as the parent.
>  The main defect is that a very high percentage of seedlings have
> smaller fruit than the parent.
> -Lon Rombough
> Grapes, writing, consulting, my book, The Grape Grower, at
> http://www.bunchgrapes.com  Winner of the Garden Writers Association
> "Best Talent in Writing" award for 2003.
> For all other things grape,   http://www.vitisearch.com
> A video about The Grape Grower :
> http://cookingupastory.com/index.php/2008/04/18/the-grape-grower/
> On Jul 31, 2008, at 4:33 PM, Steve wrote:
>
> Robert C. Mullins wrote:
> > Tasted a plum, it was delicious, saved the seed.  And now the big
> > question, if I plant it, will it grow true?
> About the same chance as winning the lottery.
> If the plum was a wild plum (unimproved by breeding or selection), then
> the seed might produce a tree with very similar fruit. Since you say it
> was delicious, I'm going to assume it was pretty far from a wild fruit.
>
> Steve
>
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