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["Ernest Plutko" <ernestplutko@wiktel.com>]

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. 
>