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  • From: "Ernest Plutko" <ernestplutko@wiktel.com>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Scout apricot
  • Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 12:35:06 -0500

Nurseries around here usually open beginning of April. I'm eager to
buy more trees. Have you seen Chinese Pioneer apricot? I have more
brambles coming by mail but I only buy trees in person. Please let
me know if you get flowers and fruit. Heard birds don't bother
yellow fruit much.

---- Original Message ----
From: qazingulaza@gmail.com
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Scout apricot
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 10:57:08 -0500

>The Amish nurseries around here are selling it so I bought one last
>year. Mine looks fine, buds swelling, no tip damage. But then of
>course, it important to remember that we only got down to a balmy
>-25F
>this year.
>
>~mIEKAL
>
>Just bought something being sold as a Yellow cherry at the Mennonite
>
>nursery yesterday. Don't know anything about it, but I'm thinking if
>
>it ripens yellow, it'll take a while before the robins figure it out
>&
>harvest the tree for me.
>
>
>On Apr 18, 2009, at 10:41 AM, Ernest Plutko wrote:
>
>> Snowing hard this morning but not sticking to ground. This winter
>> just will not die. The Scout apricot I bought last spring made it
>> through the winter with no damage I can see except some of the twig
>> ends died. Just a half inch. Buds are not swelling. I'm
>interested
>> to see if I get any apricots. Anyone growing Scout? I was
>reluctant
>> to buy it but the nursery insisted it would live in zone 3. Deer
>> nipped the twig ends off most of the apple trees. Just like big
>> rats. My neighbor didn't harvest his soybean field last fall and
>> there are over 100 deer in his field. Saw a timber wolf near the
>> field. Wolves know where the deer are. Deer will be surprised
>when
>> I get the electric fence up.
>
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