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[mIEKAL aND <qazingulaza@gmail.com>]

I've followed One Green World catalogues since they began, but hell if  
I'm could ever afford those prices.  There's gotta be other  
alternatives.  I wonder if any of the germplasm repositories offers  
cuttings.

I went the opposite direction.  I bought seabuckthorn seeds from  
several places in the mid 90s & grew them out.  I would say seedling  
plants need 8-10 years to be fruitful. & of course fruit size &  
production is hugely variable.

Carandale Farms in Madison grew out a bunch of the One Green World  
selections based on a SARE grant & to my eye they are a huge  
improvement over the seedling varieties.  So if you can afford them,  
by all means.....

~mIEKAL


On Mar 9, 2010, at 6:33 PM, John S wrote:

> Rafter,  Not sure if this is what you are looking for, but One Green  
> World is selling many different cultivars of sea buckthorn.  Over  
> the past decade, I have purchased several types from them and would  
> recommend you check their on line catalog at onegreenworld.com
>
> My first sea buckthorn was just a common generic form.  The  
> selections from OGW have much larger fruit and span a range of  
> characteristics.  The ones I have so far I consider to be minimally  
> thorned, but they do have thorns.  Perhaps an inquiry to OGW could  
> produce the name of some thornless ones.
>
> John
>
>
>
> --- On Tue, 3/9/10, rafter sass <rafter@liberationecology.org> wrote:
>
> From: rafter sass <rafter@liberationecology.org>
> Subject: [NAFEX] Sea Buckthorn cultivars
> To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Tuesday, March 9, 2010, 6:03 PM
>
> Hey folks,
>
> Looking for sea buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides) germplasm resources.
>
> The Shelterbelt Center in Canada says they had a near-thornless  
> variety years ago,
> but I can't get an email back from those folks.
>
> Anyone know sources for improved (productive, easy-to-harvest,  
> thornless) varieties?
> Seeds, scion wood, seedlings?
>
> Thanks so much for any help.
>
> Best,
> Rafter