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["Lori Rizzo" <larizzo@charter.net>]

Melissa, I’d like to buy them but am not sure if Zone 7 (Tennessee) is too warm?  If you think that they will do o.k. in this zone, then I could pay for the via PayPal – also, I would like to get some of the Berry Blue seeds.

 

Lori

 

Lori Rizzo, RN BSN MBA

Health Care Quality Improvement

Pet Training & Behavior Improvement!

Maryville, TN

larizzo@charter.net

 

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From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Melissa Kacalanos
Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2010 11:22 AM
To: North American Fruit Explorers
Subject: [NAFEX] Canadian haskaps need homes in USA

 

I hope this email isn't too commercial for this list, but I have 5 haskap/honeyberry plants of the new varieties 'Borealis' and 'Tundra' to sell in the USA. I have 3 'Borealis' and 2 'Tundra' left. These new varieties are supposedly much better than the old varieties available in the USA. Descriptions of these varieties are on the breeder's website here:
http://www.fruit.usask.ca/haskap.html

The reason I have extra is a long story. I saw that the Canadian nursery, Haskap Central (whose website is gone now) was exporting these plants to the USA. However, shipping across the border was expensive, so I put an ad on craigslist to find other local gardeners who wanted to combine an order and share shipping. I paid for all the plants, and trusted the other gardeners to pay me when the plants arrived and they picked them up.

Two gardeners didn't pick up their plants, so I'm left with the extras. I haven't found local homes for them, so I'm offering them to NAFEXers at my costs, $12.32/plant, plus shipping. In hot weather like this, I'd want to ship them overnight. They're pretty small, only about as big as tomato seedlings you'd buy, so shipping shouldn't be all that expensive.

These varieties need to be pollinated by a different variety to set fruit. They don't pollinate each other. The breeder recommends 'Berry Blue' which is available from nurseries in the USA, or I can give you free seeds (extras I got from generous NAFEXer Sarah) that should grow into good pollinators. Or, the breeder is working on a better pollinator that might be available next year, so you could wait for this
better one if you want.

Melissa