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["Hector Black" <hblack1925@fastmail.fm>]

Hi Donna,

    It's weird that we are that close to one another and have such different experiences with mayhaws.  Of course we do have some with rust, but chuck those, but gallons of mayhaws remain.  We Big Red from TO Warren and another that are over 30 years old now and still produce heavily, and a lot of the newer ones.  Hector Black, zone 6 middle tn.

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From: Kieran and/or Donna

To: North American Fruit Explorers

Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 7:39 AM

Subject: Re: [NAFEX] good-fruited hawthornes

I planted mayhaws partly because I wanted something to remind me of the hawthornes in England, but they bloom too early to crop most years and the fruit gets covered in rust.  So I've been chopping them down, sorry that I let that space go to waste for so many years.  Chris Inhulsen told me way back when that they got the rust.  I think that by growing in swamps in their native Deep South they avoid junipers.  And, no, the scrawny fruit would not justify the room they take if it wasn't ruined by rust.  They don't bloom well for me, not enough to be pretty, and certainly not enough to make good crops.  Has anyone else got mayhaws that actually bloom heavily?  I don't think that T.O. and Sherwood would have been so wild about them if they didn't do well down there.   Donna

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