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  • From: "Ernest Plutko" <ernestplutko@wiktel.com>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Pequot illini hardy etc.
  • Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 13:12:57 -0500

The Illini Hardy blackberries I had last summer were generally sour.
The first berries were fairly sweet but the later berries were sour.
Not worth growing except as a novelty in the North. Blackberries
don't grow here unless you really pamper them. Too much trouble.

Zone 3/2

---- Original Message ----
From: 6ducks@gmail.com
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: RE: [NAFEX] Pequot illini hardy etc.
Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 14:00:09 -0400

>So.... how does Pequot taste? Can anyone compare it to Jewel or Mac
>Black?
>
>
>
>And Illini hardy, Fort Kent, etc. Can anyone compare them for fresh
>eating
>to Chester (which is too sour for my tastes), Triple Crown, or
>Navaho?
>
>
>
>Michele in SW Ohio
>
>PS
>
>When we get winter temps below 5 F we get substantial cane
>dieback--need
>hardier cultivars. Chester is the hardiest of those three but Triple
>Crown
>and Navaho are planted around here and make it through many winters.
>






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