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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 12:37:05 -0500

Wrong, beginning of May ant April sorry

---- Original Message ----
From: 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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