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["Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>]

Too much involved in such a cross.  The odds of getting that trait combined with all the good saleable traits needed could require  growing thousands of  seedlings.  I'd have had to start about 20 years ago.   I'd send budwood or scions if anyone wants to  play with  it.  It's also a red leaf type.  The Apex parent was open pollinated and there was a red leaf tree in the area.
-Lon Rombough
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On Aug 21, 2009, at 1:32 PM, fuwa fuwa usagi wrote:

Lon wrote:

I've got a pluot that holds extremely well on the tree, but that's most of what I can say about it.  It's productive, but not very exciting in flavor.  It has been hanging at least a month past ripe and it's still sound.   It's not a named variety, though.  It was grown from seed of Luther Burbank's "Apex" plumcot.

My reply:

So out of curiosity, given your proclivity for doing selfless acts, why did you not cross it with a tastier variety in the hope of passing on this useful trait in a more tasty form?  

The curious bunny


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