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

What does [NAFEX][BULK] mean?

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From: iwgarden@earthlink.net
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] [Bulk] Re:  Let the customer beware
Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 10:58:50 -0700

>That is why it is best to support our local nurseries-- they have 
>better
>ideas, experience,  and some ethical standards as to what will grow
>in each
>specific climate. Many places cannot grow the fruit from big box
>stores but
>they are very cheap there so a lot is sold. 
>
>Idell
>
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>From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
>[mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Douglas Woodard
>Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 10:50 AM
>To: North American Fruit Explorers
>Subject: Re: [NAFEX] [Bulk] Re: Let the customer beware
>
>
>
>On 25/05/2011 3:48 PM, sherwin wrote:
>> On 5/25/2011 9:50 AM, athagan@atlantic.net wrote:
>>> It's the same in Florida.  Wally World, Lowes, Home Depot and many
>>> others will happily sell you something that hasn't a hope of ever
>>> bearing fruit or even surviving in Florida.  Very nearly bought a
>>> couple of Granny Smith apple trees that way some years ago before
>I
>>> learned to research this stuff first.
>>>
>>> Quoting Jim Fruth<jimfruth@charter.net>:
>>>
>>>> Douglas Woodward wrote:  "........................If a customer
>wanted
>to
>>>> buy something, they would sell it. I fear that a lot of
>businesses still
>>>> operate on that principle."
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>       Most of the fruit trees in Wal-Mart's nursery here in
>Central
>Minnesota
>>>> won't survive here.  When I informed an employee about it he
>said, "They
>are
>>>> all ordered in Arkansas and we get what Arkansas gets.  If they
>don't
>grow,
>>>> the customers can get their money back."  What the man failed to
>say is
>that
>>>> alot of people think they may have caused the death of the fruit
>tree
>and
>>>> won't ask for a refund.
>>           Douglas,
>>
>>           Another problem not mentioned with big box stores is
>> mislabeling of varieties.
>>
>>           A few years ago I purchased a tree labeled as Belle of
>Georgia
>> Peach.  Expecting a
>>           white fleshed peach, it was an orange color of the other
>kind
>> of peaches.  My best
>>           guess is that it is a Elberta, since I had grown that
>before.
>>
>>           When I checked further with Home Depot, they could not
>trace
>> the source of this
>>           tree.  It went through several different places from the
>> initial nursery to their store.
>>
>>           I bought it because it looked healthy, had a visible
>graft, and
>> was a variety I needed
>>           to fill in for another peach that had died.  I normally
>would
>> not buy from the big box
>>           stores for no other reason than they do not specify what
>> rootstock the trees are on.
>>           You can find this later problem with several catalog sale
>> places like Millers, etc.  They
>>           may say semi-dwarf, but there is a lot of latitude in
>tree
>> size, plus if you are looking
>>           for something like cold hardiness, you don't know what
>you are
>> getting.
>>
>>                                             Sherwin Dubren
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