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  • From: Kevin Moore <aleguy33@yahoo.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] cherries
  • Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 17:02:52 -0700 (PDT)

Right now I have a grapefruit, blood orange, several satsuma mandarins, a loquat and a fig that came with the house so I have no idea what variety it is. Also a Persian lime and both a Meyer and Lisbon lemon, though the Lisbon just went in last year and is not producing yet. I lost a Jap persimmon to last year's hurricane and another in the front yard that never produces much, though I don't care for sugar plums anyway. I have a pecan that has inedible nuts. It too came with the house, it's probably suffering from some nutrient deficiency that prevents the nuts from maturing properly. The husks never release from the nuts and the nuts are very bitter.
I'd like to put in some bananas (rajapuri) and some prunus varieties, might even try a catalina cherry. Also Feijoa, known locally as pineapple guava grow here. I'd like to get some improved varieties because the fruit is so small on the trees that are sold as ornamentals. Avocados do well here, even surviving a historic freeze that killed all the "hardy" citrus, so that's on the list if I can find room.
Wild fruits include black cherry, elderberry, various grapes, blackberry, maypop and paw paw, all very vigorous weeds.

From: Ernest Plutko <ernestplutko@wiktel.com>
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Saturday, June 6, 2009 6:20:31 PM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] cherries

You should be able to grow fruit I can't.  Figs?  What do you grow.

---- Original Message ----
From: aleguy33@yahoo.com
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] cherries
Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 15:33:25 -0700 (PDT)

>I can't speak from experience, but my research indicates that mazzard
>cherries are highly variable in size and quality. Some very good ones
>exist that have large fruit and small pits, while others are bitter
>or astringent. Mostly I'm concentrating on cherries that are good to
>zone 10-11 because I don't have the chilling down here to allow me to
>grow the standard varieties of prunus. There seem to be some good
>ones out there, but the myrobalan plum seems to be the only plum that
>even stands a chance here. I guess I'll have to pony up and give it a
>try.
>You could always try getting the Evans to root themselves by burying
>the graft. Seems that was a popular topic a while back on the list.
>
>
>
>
>________________________________
>From: Ernest Plutko <ernestplutko@wiktel.com>
>To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
>Sent: Saturday, June 6, 2009 5:24:01 PM
>Subject: [NAFEX] cherries
>
>I went down to my woodland and looked at two Evans cherry I planted a
>few years ago.  One has flowers and flower buds.  First I ever had.
>The second tree died to the ground but has two suckers coming up from
>the ground next to dead trunk.  I don't know if the suckers are Evans
>or Mazzard cherry.  They have cherry leaves.    Anyone have Mazzard
>cherry trees?  Supposedly they are zone 3.  How do the cherries
>taste?  Recently I sent for two Evans grown on own roots but received
>grafted trees.
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