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  • From: "Lee Sharp" <leesharp@cableone.net>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Zone Range Limit (6/7): Date-Palm, Pomegranate, Strawberry-Tree, Fuzzy Kiwi, Kaki, OTHERS?
  • Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 09:57:52 -0600

Scott Smith wrote,"Hardy pomegranates - two years of very minor dieback".
Scott, what are the variety names of your pomegranates?
Lee
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Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 8:29 AM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Zone Range Limit (6/7): Date-Palm, Pomegranate,Strawberry-Tree, Fuzzy Kiwi, Kaki, OTHERS?

I'm at the 6B/7A border in MD .. usually the lowest low each year is in the -2F to 2F range.

Hardy pomegranates - two years of very minor dieback
Fuzzy kiwi - 8 years, no dieback.  Main problem is too-short season for fruit maturity, trying several supposedly shorter-season varieties now.
Asian persimmon - 8 years, only one year where my Hachiya lost half its limbs (and my half-dozen other varieties were all undamaged).  Hachiya is known to be less hardy but it took -2F one year with no ill effects.
Fig - without protection it varies from year to year; last winter I lost nothing but in some years I had dieback to the ground.  No plants ever died.  I protected them for several years but now they are so big they are on their own.
Feijoa - I kept it in leaf one winter with several layers of thick rowcover around it.  The problem however is the plant will never fruit in my zone due to its odd timing of blossoming and fruiting so I decided to take them out.  It would be possible to get the flowers if covered I expect.

and.. Western blackberries - all kinds can be grown if put on the ground and covered.  So far the only reliably hardy one without covering is Metolius which fruited this last summer but didn't taste very good unfortunately (it overcropped).  I am trying many of the recently bred selections to see if one is more hardy.  In fact I will have extra plants of four new selections I ordered for next spring for testing (Orus 1523-4, Orus 1843-3 (aka Wild Treasure), NZ 9351-4, NZ 9671-1) since the minimum order is 50 each; if you are interested in buying a few off me at cost (about $2 per tissue-culture plant) send me an email.  I have been growing Wild Treasure for several years and it is at least partly hardy; there is no data on the other ones.  I have had both Loganberry and Marionberry fruit for me and I prefer them to the more hardy varieties so I want to get some berries like that going in my climate. The two NZ selections are more red like a loganberry, they have some raspberry in them.

Scott



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