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[Alexander Brands <abb7@Lehigh.EDU>]

> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:09:39 -0400
> From: "Michele Stanton" <6ducks@gmail.com>
> Subject: [NAFEX] goumi and other minor fruits
>
> Are any of you growing goumi (Elaeagnus multiflora)?

I have a goumi bush from Raintree.  It is supposed to be "Sweet  
Scarlet", but a recent message here has given me doubts.  The fruits  
are the size of jelly beans.  What size fruit do others here get?

  It makes a lot of fruit, but the robins and a few other birds eat  
them all.  I netted a couple times, and got a good harvest, but they  
are fiddly to eat because of the comparatively large seed, and  
somewhat astringent until a few days after they turn red.  I made  
goumi jelly once, but it didn't really have a flavor, it was just sweet.

The plant is completely trouble free in terms of disease or pest issues.

Alex

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