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["Ernest Plutko" <ernestplutko@wiktel.com>]

What are seaberries good for?  Do they taste like weeds?

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From: swim_at_svc@yahoo.com
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] seaberry source?
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2011 15:48:46 -0800 (PST)

>I am reasonably confident that they are own rooted, but you raise a
>good point.  The suckered plants are not yet large enough here to
>fruit for me.  I just row planted a number of them from the
>propagation pots so should know in a year or two.
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>I always assumed that these were sucker propagated, as it appears so
>easy to do so.  Also none of my purchased plants ever had any signs
>of graft unions and looked like there were on own roots when small.  
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>--- On Sun, 1/9/11, mIEKAL aND <qazingulaza@gmail.com> wrote:
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>From: mIEKAL aND <qazingulaza@gmail.com>
>Subject: Re: [NAFEX] seaberry source?
>To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
>Date: Sunday, January 9, 2011, 9:21 AM
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>I always assumed the One Green World plants were grafted, in which
>case the suckers would be generic seedling stock.  If they are
>own-rooted how are their plants propagated?
>Good to get a confirmation about die back,  I would tend to guess
>drought conditions over too much water also.
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>Dale, at Carandale Farms south of Madison, has a fairly good
>collection of seaberry cultivars that are about 8-9 years old.  I've
>been meaning to check out his fruit  selections.  He's actually been
>selling the berries at Dane County farmer's market for the last few
>years as well as doing educational work with the people who come by &
>have never heard of them.
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>~mIEKAL
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>On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 12:13 AM, John S <swim_at_svc@yahoo.com>
>wrote:
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>Miekal,
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>I've purchased 4 different varieties as single plants over the last
>10 years, the most recent about 2 years ago.  The most recent one has
>yet to sucker, but the other 3 have produced lots of plants (a male
>and two different females).  I dig and pot up suckers each year and
>have given some to members of this list (and owe one to someone
>yet).  Others are used to increase my stock.  Perhaps there is
>something about your care that is discouraging suckering or your
>varieties don't sucker.  If you search/google  "seaberry sucker" you
>will find many references to this habit, which is regarded as a
>liability by some.
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>Like you, however, I've experienced die back of some of my plants.  I
>think it is due to insufficient water during the heat of summer.  
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>My initial female came from Indiana Berry and its
> fruit is significantly inferior to the more recent, fruiting named
>female variety I received from OGW.
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>--- On Sat, 1/8/11, mIEKAL aND <qazingulaza@gmail.com> wrote:
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>From: mIEKAL aND <qazingulaza@gmail.com>
>Subject: Re: [NAFEX] seaberry source?
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>To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
>Date: Saturday, January 8, 2011, 8:19 PM
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>I have Leikora, whatever cultivar Bear Creek used to distribute, &
>seedlings grown from seed.  Frankly I can't tell the difference in
>fruit, based on size or sweetness or astringency.  When I was in
>Romania, there were great wild strains there, in literally every
>farmer's market, but of course, I wasn't able to bring any of the
>material back with me.  More than half of my planting has died back
>in various
> summers, I'm thinking either from too wet or from too dry.
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>& I've never had a single plant sucker (I wish) in the 20 years
>they've been in the ground.  There's maybe 7 or 8 that are still
>alive.
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>~mIEKAL
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