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["Mark Angermayer" <hangermayer@isp.com>]

Thanks Michele for the link. 

 

The taste rankings seem confusing.  They rate Ouachita as more flavorful than Apache (which they characterize as intense - I agree) then they mention Ouachita is bitter and awful.  While I wouldn't describe Ouachita as awful, it is a little more prone to bitterness if picked too early.  The smaller berries on the plants are especially prone to bitterness if picked early.  However, Apache always beats Ouachita in flavor here.

 

They rate Doyle above Triple Crown in flavor, but Doyle is generally recognized as not quite as tasty as Triple Crown.  The advantage of Doyle is its high production.

 

I also think they rate Navaho too high for flavor.

 

Of course this is what happens when trying to rank flavor.  It's all pretty subjective.

 

Mark

KS

----- Original Message -----

From: Michele Stanton

To: 'North American Fruit Explorers'

Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 10:59 AM

Subject: Re: [NAFEX] flavorful blackberries?

PennState did an observational trial of blackberry cultivars, including ratings of taste and thorniness.

 

http://capitalhort.cas.psu.edu/ResearchThings/BlackberryTalk.pdf

 

Michele

 

From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Jim Fruth
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 10:05 AM
To: NAFEX
Subject: [NAFEX] flavorful blackberries?

 

    Fort Kent King from FEDCO is very tasty and ripens in August here in zone 3.  Canes dry out in our Winter's low humidity so I lay the canes down to be covered with snow.................and by the way, this variety is EXTRAVAGANTLY productive, plus, in some years I get a second, smaller crop.

 

Jim Fruth
Brambleberry Fruit Farm
4002 Davis Street
Pequot Lakes, MN  56472
1-218-831-7018 (My Cell)

 

 

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