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[mIEKAL aND <qazingulaza@gmail.com>]

My stratified Siberian C's are usually cracking the shells in the  
fridge in early March so I pot them up & put them in the  
greenhouse...  If I left them until late April/May the growing tip  
would be completely dessicated.

I got pits of Iowa White Indian peaches this year which are  
purportedly hardy to my area.  They were from Catnip Farm & came with  
funny hand drawn cartoons of how to plant & care for them.  http://www.localharvest.org/store/M87

~mIEKAL


On May 5, 2009, at 10:42 PM, bluestem_farm@juno.com wrote:

> Richard Fahey sells stratified 'Siberian' peach pits, but it's too  
> late to get them this year.  I imagine that he's planted any that  
> were un-ordered.  I ordered some; a few of them were already  
> sprouting when they came but I stuck them in the fridge anyway until  
> 2 weeks ago, when I was ready to plant.  Three rotted there (I think  
> that they weren't ready to go back to dormancy), and the jury is  
> still out on the others.   I thought that I saw a bit of green in  
> one pot today.
> This winter the minimum temp that my thermometer recorded was -27  
> F.  Amazingly, the flower buds on my Reliance peach are swelling and  
> look like they may open--if we don't have any hard frosts (and it's  
> too early in the year to expect not to have any hard frosts).  Last  
> year I wasn't able to record a low, but the flower buds all fell off  
> when the tree resumed growth in the spring.
>
>  Muffy Barrett
> SC Wisc. zone 4
>
>
> I looked up Siberian C on the web, only found comment on the  
> rootstock no source to purchase. Do you know of a nursery that  
> carries it, is it just the rootstock ?
>
> Thank you, Anthony z4b