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- From: Ed Fackler <ed.fackler@gmail.com>
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- Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Ka-Bluey blueberry
- Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:41:46 -0400
I don't know, but I doubt it. I think the one thing that most folks overlook is the absolute need for heavy (and annual) application of mulch. For that matter, Jim Ballington (breeder from NC State) once told me that he thought excessively high soil temperatures were as damaging to blueberries as high pH soils. Here we have soils which are naturally around 6.2 to 6.5 and with heavy mulch blueberries do fine. While at Rocky I had both Colville and Blue Ray which are now over 30 years old and have never ever had anything done except heavy annual mulching.
This is likely more comments than you wanted to hear!!!
ed
Any chance it tolerates alkaline soil?
Naomi
Idaho
From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Ed Fackler
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 9:56 AM
To: North American Fruit Explorers
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Ka-Bluey blueberry
The breeder kept it due to its complex flavor. Ka-Bluey had some (unknown to me...likely stem scar) characteristic which made it commercially unacceptable.
And no it was not released under another name.
edOn Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Melissa Kacalanos <mijwiz@yahoo.com> wrote:
I'd dismissed the catalog description as the usual catalog hyperbole too. It's interesting to read that it might actually be true.
The only info I can find about this variety is from Gurneys/Henry Fields. Was it originally released under a different name?
I don't understand why the breeder "kept it strictly for hybridizing purposes" if the flavor is so great.
Melissa
--- On Sun, 8/22/10, Ed Fackler <ed.fackler@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Ed Fackler <ed.fackler@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Ka-Bluey blueberry
To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>Date: Sunday, August 22, 2010, 10:54 AM
Mark:
It was released from U. Ark. Actually my wife discovered it when we visited Clarksville in 2003 or 2004. The breeder John Clark kept it strictly for hybridizing purposes as it possesses a complex sweet flavor which has slight peach-like characteristics. Personally I've not been able to pick up this peach flavor, but it is complex and is the finest flavored blueberry I've ever eaten. It also is amongst the earliest to mature (June 1-15 here in S. Indiana).
Hope this helps.
edOn Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Mark Angermayer <hangermayer@isp.com> wrote:
Ka-Bluey blueberry:
Has anyone tried this blueberry sold by the Gurneys/Henry Fields
conglomerate? I'm wondering if it's just a common cultivar they slapped a
fancy name on. However, I see that its got Ed Fackler's endorsement as the
best blueberry he's ever tasted.
Mark Angermayer
KS
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- Re: [NAFEX] Garden Huckleberry pie, Hector Black, 08/22/2010
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Re: [NAFEX] Ka-Bluey blueberry,
Ed Fackler, 08/25/2010
- Re: [NAFEX] Ka-Bluey blueberry, Naomi Counides, 08/25/2010
- Re: [NAFEX] Ka-Bluey blueberry, Ed Fackler, 08/25/2010
- Re: [NAFEX] Ka-Bluey blueberry, Naomi Counides, 08/25/2010
- [NAFEX] Growing blueberries in alkaline soil - well, actually in bales of peat moss, Dr. Lucky Pittman, 08/25/2010
- Re: [NAFEX] Growing blueberries in alkaline soil - well, actually in bales of peat moss, Naomi Counides, 08/25/2010
- Re: [NAFEX] Growing blueberries in alkaline soil - well, actually in bales of peat moss, Dr. Lucky Pittman, 08/25/2010
- Re: [NAFEX] Growing blueberries in alkaline soil - well, actually in bales of peat moss, Naomi Counides, 08/25/2010
- Re: [NAFEX] Growing blueberries in alkaline soil - well, actually in bales of peat moss, John S, 08/25/2010
- Re: [NAFEX] Growing blueberries in alkaline soil - well, actually in bales of peat moss, Naomi Counides, 08/26/2010
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