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[John S <swim_at_svc@yahoo.com>]

Melissa,  I'd really like to have them, but will have to pass due to the time of the year.  It's too hard on my current ones during August and September, so establishing small, new plants would be very risky.  Thanks for offering to make them available though.

Perhaps you could keep them going until next spring if no one else has the interest.

John



--- On Sat, 7/24/10, Melissa Kacalanos <mijwiz@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Melissa Kacalanos <mijwiz@yahoo.com>
Subject: [NAFEX] Canadian haskaps need homes in USA
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Saturday, July 24, 2010, 11:22 AM

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

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