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[NAFEX] early flowering, can I let my young plants fruit?
- From: Hilborn.E@epamail.epa.gov
- To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: [NAFEX] early flowering, can I let my young plants fruit?
- Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 19:02:12 -0400
Not only do we have unseasonably warm temperatures with blueberries, juneberries, apples, pears and prunus all in bloom, but I am observing blooms on juvenile plants.
My Liberty apple, Shenandoah pawpaw and Overleese pawpaw, Blue Moon and Blue Velvet honeyberries and my 3 flowering quinces are all blooming and I just planted them last year! The apple is on dwarf rootstock (I do not know what Stark Bros. uses) and is about 8 feet tall. The pawpaws are 3-4 feet; quinces 2-3 feet and the honeyberries less than 2 feet tall.
Question- should I remove all of these flowers so that the plants can put energy into establishment rather than fruit? I am used to doing so with new blueberry plants, but am unsure about other fruits.
Thanks,
Betsy Hilborn
7a NC
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[NAFEX] Plum or Apricot,
Caren Kirk, 04/08/2010
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Re: [NAFEX] Plum or Apricot,
Douglas Woodard, 04/08/2010
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[NAFEX] early flowering, can I let my young plants fruit?,
Hilborn . E, 04/08/2010
- Re: [NAFEX] early flowering, can I let my young plants fruit?, Matt Demmon, 04/08/2010
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[NAFEX] early flowering, can I let my young plants fruit?,
Hilborn . E, 04/08/2010
- Re: [NAFEX] Plum or Apricot, Claude Jolicoeur, 04/08/2010
- Re: [NAFEX] Plum or Apricot, Ginda Fisher, 04/10/2010
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Re: [NAFEX] Plum or Apricot,
Douglas Woodard, 04/08/2010
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