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  • From: mIEKAL aND <qazingulaza@gmail.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Badgersett Hazels
  • Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:11:01 -0500

Sam, several other people in our area have had similar experiences
with the slow establishment of the hazels. I don't have any of his
chestnuts so I can say anything about them. I have good success with
the Layeroka & Skiokum chestnuts from the west coast.

~mIEKAL


On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Brungardt, Sam (MPCA)
<Sam.Brungardt@state.mn.us> wrote:
> You observations on the Badgersett hazels are of considerable interest to
> me since I am stratifying some Badgersett hazelnuts and hybrid chestnuts at
> this very moment.  I hope they grow more lustily for me than they have for
> you. -- Sam Brungardt, St. Paul, Minn. (USDA zone 4b)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of mIEKAL aND
> Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 9:32 AM
> To: North American Fruit Explorers
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Badgersett Hazels
>
> I grow several generations of the Rutter hazelnuts.  The Rutter
> Hazelburts from Bear Creek that I got in the early 90s still seem to
> be the most consistent bearers, seedlings of the parent plants usually
> put on nuts by the third year.  The most recent round of Rutter stock
> was planted in 2002 & bore nuts for the first time last year....
> There is huge variation in that planting, some bushes not more than
> 3-4 sticks a yard high & some 10-12 foot high very full bushes &
> crowns that are beginning to sucker a lot.  As well there is quite a
> lot size variation in the nuts.  All my hazels & hazel crosses have
> bits of eastern filbert blight, tho most of the susceptible varieties
> died off long ago.
>
> If you want to try yet another breeding program my neighbor Mark
> Shepard has been working with some other genetics that I don't know a
> lot about.  His website is:
>
> http://www.forestag.com/EdibleWoodyCropsNursery/NurseryStore/tabid/63/Default.aspx
>
> ~mIEKAL
>




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