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[david liezen <chandos49@hotmail.com>]

Hmm, sure that there isn't some kind of disease messing with your taste buddies? And if you haven't stripped your shrubs, maybe it's worth waiting a bit longer to see if they ripen some more?
 
I confess the wait for a first crop is worse than waiting for the first baby to come to birth. My apple trees are finally ripening and one of them seems to defy all expectation: seeds were brown weeks ago but the fruit is still improving - I think.
 
 Dave Liezen, E. WA, z6 
 
> To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> From: Hilborn.E@epamail.epa.gov
> Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 11:17:16 -0400
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] 'Pine Mouth': Nuts Can Ruin Taste for Weeks? What about Nanking cherry?
>
> I am planning to remove my Nanking Cherry bushes.
>
> This past year, my 'white' (really a pale peach) variety fruited
> significantly for the first time and I ate the fruit over a period of a
> few weeks. Soon after I started, I noticed that foods started tasting
> bitter. By the end of the season, an underlying bitterness in the fruit
> itself became more pronounced to me. I stopped eating the fruit and
> within 2 weeks my sense of taste was back to normal.
>
> Has anyone else experienced this?
>
> Betsy Hilborn
> 7a NC
>
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