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  • From: "Jim Fruth" <jimfruth@charter.net>
  • To: "NAFEX" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [NAFEX] Developing hardy trees
  • Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 08:52:03 -0500

Larry Cook from Indiana wrote, "I have read that it takes a planting of several hundred seedlings and then you may not get fruit quality............"

Could you have been reading about my work? If we don't try something, how do we learn? Most plant breeders take the easy path and develop fruits for their zone ending up with yet another variety that isn't available to colder climate growers. 'Where is the economics of that? Too little has been written about developing fruits for colder climates; it might take some original thinking; it is just EASIER to not do it.
When I developed my black raspberry, the only goal I had in mind was making it more cold hardy, much to the dismay of some who buy it suspecting that perhaps I also may have developed huge fruits. Sorry, but that is still in the offing. I haven't stopped working on hardiness. I've been playing with the genetics of my plants and have been noticing that some plants do produce larger than normal berries but I'm working on developing a black raspberry that will thrive in Fairbanks, Alaska. When (if?) I do that, then I concentrate on getting larger fruits.

Jim Fruth
Brambleberry Farm
Pequot Lakes, MN 56472
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