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  • From: Scott Smith <scott@cs.jhu.edu>
  • To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [NAFEX] Apricots from Afghanistan
  • Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 16:13:56 -0400

Doug, I am growing a couple Hunza apricots from the ARS collection -- they have several that Thompson collected there years ago. They are not very precocious but I hope I can get some fruit this year (I think they were grafted about five years ago).

What I wanted to add was they are not late blooming at all, they boom with my other apricots. The only ones I have found that are later are the white varieties; this year Zard, Canadian White Blenheim, and Shekar Pareh were about a week later than the rest which were more or less synchronized.

Note that when any foreign seed of a stone fruit is grown out there is a risk for plum pox.

Scott





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