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  • From: "loneroc" <loneroc@countryspeed.com>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] RHUBARB from seed (AND PAWPAW NOTE)
  • Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2010 09:05:10 -0500

Hi mIEKAL,
 
Although there is, of course, not as much difference between rhubarb cultivars as there is for grapes, no vintner would plant grape seeds and expect high quality wine to result.  If you want to produce the best wine you should use the best clones.  I only have two clones, the regular sort that has huge leaves and seeds, and another small -leaved one which never produces seed stalks.  The latter came with my property and was called "wine rhubarb" by the hundred year old owner.  I almost let the bed of wine rhubarb be smothered by grass.  Even mowed over it because it was runty.  A few years back this e-list discussed the fact that there were a number of rhubarb clones, with significant differences between them.  So I dug up the vestiges of the wine rhubarb from the lawn an transplanted them to a very fertile vegetable garden.  The resultant rhubarb custard pies (I haven't tried wine with them) were spectacularly better than the coarse, big clone.  I'd think that this would likely apply to wine, too.  If you want a couple of starts swing by my place next spring.
 
A while back you asked about the location of the Iowa native pawpaws at the University of Wisconsin Arboretum.  If you travel in a straight line from the McKay Visitors Center to the green outdoor restroom (located to the right of the white pine shaded rhododendron planting) you'll run into the pawpaws on the wood's edge about 50 yards beyond the bathroom.
 
Steve H.  Lone Rock, WI USDA zone 3.
 


From: mIEKAL aND <QAZINGULAZA@gmail.com>
To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wed, October 13, 2010 7:40:13 PM
Subject: [NAFEX] RHUBARB from seed

I'm needing to get 500 to a 1000 rhubarb plants going & at the price nurseries are charging it'll take me years to finance that.  I've noticed a few places like territorial seeds are offering rhubarb seed.  They say right out that you don't know what yr getting, but I wonder if in reality the variation would be all that great for something like rhubarb?  Since I'm going to use it only for wine production & not fresh sales, I feel like I have quite a bit of latitude in what I could use to make rhubarb wine.  Anyone having luck growing out from seed?

~mIEKAL

picked chestnuts, pears, figs, a couple pawpaw & buartnuts today....
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