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[Melissa Kacalanos <mijwiz@yahoo.com>]

Matt,

Do you have male plants too, or just females? I planted some of each last 
year, and this year, just about every flower on the females set fruit. There 
are at least as many fruit per plant as my regular strawberries. I can't wait 
to taste them.

Melissa

--- On Tue, 6/7/11, Matt Demmon <mdemmon@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Matt Demmon <mdemmon@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Strawberry problems
> To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Tuesday, June 7, 2011, 6:33 PM
> Sounds like an issue I've had with
> musk strawberries, which are not
> self-fruitful. Sometimes they look like they're going to
> make berries, but
> it just falls off before starting to get some size. They
> always make way
> more flowers than berries. But some years, and now that I
> have a couple
> varieties, I get a decent amount of berries. But nothing
> like regular
> strawberries.
> 
> -matt
> z5 se MI
> 
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 2:26 AM, Michael Bathrick 
> <bathrick@berkshire.net>wrote:
> 
> > Please forgive a beginner's question.
> >
> > I received some strawberries from the NCGR at
> Corvallis.  The plant
> > itself can't be more healthy, the leaves are giant, it
> flowers
> > profusely.  The problem is when the fruit sets
> and reach 1/8th inch,
> > they turn brown and the stalk withers.  I have
> planted in both MA and in
> > PA and have the same problem in both places.  Any
> ideas what it might
> > be?  I have had the same issues in wet and dry
> conditions, hot and cool
> > weather.  I haven't noticed any bugs.
> >
> > Mike
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