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[Matt Demmon <mdemmon@gmail.com>]

Cuts back completely to the ground, as in fall-bearing raspberries, or just
prunes some canes? sounds interesting.

-matt
z5 se MI

On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 8:02 AM, mIEKAL aND <qazingulaza@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> The biggest takeaway from the presentation was that he cuts back all
> his elderberries every winter & has greatly increased production.
> Gets rid of old unproductive wood & it rejuvenates the crowns.  He
> showed some numbers & the results noticeably higher.  I hadn't
> realized how easy they propagate from cuttings, I cut back a couple
> bushes as an experiment & I quickly generated a couple hundred
> cuttings..
>
> One last point from the presentation that caught my attention is that
> he said 90% of all elderberry project was imported from Europe & was a
> big impetus from his formation of the elderberry co-op in Missouri.
>
> ~mIEKAL
>
> On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 9:15 PM, Lon J. Rombough <lonrom@hevanet.com>
> wrote:
> >> http://elderberrylife.com/index.html
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