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  • From: Anton Callaway <marillen@earthlink.net>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Re 100 vars pear in Fla?
  • Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 07:42:32 -0400 (GMT-04:00)

"Seriously, how is it possible you are growing 100 varieties where you are?"

Plant at least 100 seeds of 'Baldwin'. ;)

-----Original Message-----
>From: Kieran &/or Donna <holycow@frontiernet.net>
>Sent: Jul 2, 2009 10:44 AM
>To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
>Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Re 100 vars pear in Fla?
>
>Richard, If you can grow 100 varieties of pear in NW Florida, without
>bothering about chill hours or apparently too much worry about fireblight,
>why can't the rest of us do that? I read that for 25 years a trial ran in
>GA in which the standards for comparison, Bartlett and a few other quality
>pears, were replaced regularly whenever they died to keep the trial running.
> The Bartlett would be replaced about every 4-5 years. Are your trees
>dying? Do they crop? If they don't get enough chill hours to bloom, or if
>they haven't grown big enough to bloom, they aren't likely to get a lot of
>blight. Is there something about the sea breezes where you are, or
>something about the soil we should emulate, or do you use BD preps or secret
>chants or have homeopathic preps buried under the trees? Seriously, how is
>it possible you are growing 100 varieties where you are? Donna





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