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  • From: david liezen <chandos49@hotmail.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] winter Pomona
  • Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 02:11:07 +0000


What would you like about critters? I keep laying ducks out back, and intend
to continue, as the calcium they get in their feed for eggshells also
benefits the apple trees. My liberty crop is outstanding.Dave

> From: jakuehn@verizon.net
> Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2011 16:21:19 -0400
> To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [NAFEX] winter Pomona
>
> Ginda, the fall one was the mailed one. DId you get it yet? I can
> understand a person's reluctance to read something online, but that was the
> only choice NAFEX had, to stay afloat.
>
> If you have time to write anything about critters, etc., I'll print it!
>
> The deadline can be flexible; is Nov. 18 long enough? If not, let me know.
>
> Thanks to all.
> Jacquelyn A. Kuehn
>
> pennsacreskitchen.net
> wmugradio.org
>
>
>
>
> On Nov 5, 2011, at 12:00 PM, nafex-request@lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
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> > Today's Topics:
> >
> > 1. Winter Pomona (Jackie)
> > 2. Re: Winter Pomona (Ginda Fisher)
> > 3. Fwd: Winter Pomona (Ginda Fisher)
> >
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Message: 1
> > Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2011 14:45:07 -0400
> > From: Jackie <jakuehn@verizon.net>
> > Subject: [NAFEX] Winter Pomona
> > To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> > Message-ID: <B98E7FB7-B8B0-4D5B-8829-1F520355791E@verizon.net>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> >
> > Dear NAFEXers,
> >
> > As the weather cools and Thanksgiving approaches, I find that I have so
> > far one article to fill up the winter Pomona; we need many, many more. I
> > know you're all busy, but if you can find ten minutes to write up
> > information on your harvest, grafting experiences, new varieties,
> > etc.--good or bad--we would all be grateful and all benefit. Email them
> > to me or to Gretchen Ring, ring.gretchen@yahoo.com.
> >
> > Thanks so much. I'm looking forward to reading about your growing year.
> >
> > Jackie
> >
> > Jacquelyn A. Kuehn
> >
> > pennsacreskitchen.net
> > wmugradio.org
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Nov 4, 2011, at 12:00 PM, nafex-request@lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
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> >> Today's Topics:
> >>
> >> 1. Re: American Persimmons that retain fruit on tree in
> >> fall/winter (Robert Bruns)
> >> 2. Re: American Persimmons that retain fruit on tree in
> >> fall/winter (Lon J. Rombough)
> >> 3. Winesap Harvest (david liezen)
> >>
> >>
> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >> Message: 1
> >> Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 12:27:50 -0400
> >> From: Robert Bruns <r.fred.bruns@gmail.com>
> >> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] American Persimmons that retain fruit on tree in
> >> fall/winter
> >> To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> >> Message-ID:
> >> <CAL0ZEbkD7FM9cuRhPgrGiQ1GgdqZJv=43fWiWb_97eDOQn8_Zw@mail.gmail.com>
> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> >>
> >> To clarify, Edible Landscaping carries Rosseyanka, but not Sweet Lent. I
> >> think it was Jerry Lehman who initially brought Rosseyanka from the
> >> former
> >> Soviet Union.
> >>
> >> Fred
> >>
> >> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Lon J. Rombough <lonrom@hevanet.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Mike McConkey at Edible Landscaping has it. I think he was the finder
> >>> of
> >>> it.
> >>> -Lon Rombough
> >>> Grapes, writing, consulting, book, The Grape Grower, at
> >>> http://www.bunchgrapes.com Winner GWA "Best Talent in Writing" 2003.
> >>> Grape pruning video: http://www.bunchgrapes.com/dvd.html View a short,
> >>> low resolution clip here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q58zFY0B1M
> >>> A video about The Grape Grower :
> >>> http://cookingupastory.com/index.php/2008/04/18/the-grape-grower/
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Nov 2, 2011, at 5:05 PM, Robert Bruns wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Back maybe 15 or 20 years ago, some vendor (Burpee?) used to sell a
> >>> persimmon called Sweet Lent that was advertised to hang on the tree all
> >>> winter. I haven't heard of it in a long time. Maybe someone in NAFEX
> >>> has
> >>> it??
> >>>
> >>> Fred
> >>> Central IN, zone 5B
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Steven Covacci <filtertitle@aol.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Group:
> >>>> Which of these American Persimmon cultivars retain their fruit on the
> >>> tree
> >>>> in the fall/winter in zone 6 (or zone 5b):
> >>>>
> >>>> Dollywood [D-128]
> >>>> Early Golden
> >>>> Geneva Red
> >>>> Mitchelina ['Lena]
> >>>> Morris Burton
> >>>> Szukis
> >>>> Wabash Yates
> >>>> Yates
> >>>>
> >>>> Of these, I think that only cv. 'Szukis' does (fide. Lee Reich).
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks,
> >>>> Steve (NJ; Z6b/7a)
> >>>>
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> >>
> >> ------------------------------
> >>
> >> Message: 2
> >> Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 09:38:27 -0700
> >> From: "Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>
> >> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] American Persimmons that retain fruit on tree in
> >> fall/winter
> >> To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> >> Message-ID: <633151D2-BD33-43E1-905D-0D6D6AEBB9B1@hevanet.com>
> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> >>
> >> Mike DID list Sweet Lent in years past. I remember his writing about
> >> it. Usually if he has listed a fruit he will still have a source/tree
> >> for custom production, so ask him.
> >> -Lon Rombough
> >> Grapes, writing, consulting, book, The Grape Grower, at
> >> http://www.bunchgrapes.com Winner GWA "Best Talent in Writing" 2003.
> >> Grape pruning video: http://www.bunchgrapes.com/dvd.html View a short,
> >> low resolution clip here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q58zFY0B1M
> >> A video about The Grape Grower :
> >> http://cookingupastory.com/index.php/2008/04/18/the-grape-grower/
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Nov 3, 2011, at 9:27 AM, Robert Bruns wrote:
> >>
> >> To clarify, Edible Landscaping carries Rosseyanka, but not Sweet Lent. I
> >> think it was Jerry Lehman who initially brought Rosseyanka from the
> >> former
> >> Soviet Union.
> >>
> >> Fred
> >>
> >> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Lon J. Rombough <lonrom@hevanet.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Mike McConkey at Edible Landscaping has it. I think he was the finder
> >>> of
> >>> it.
> >>> -Lon Rombough
> >>> Grapes, writing, consulting, book, The Grape Grower, at
> >>> http://www.bunchgrapes.com Winner GWA "Best Talent in Writing" 2003.
> >>> Grape pruning video: http://www.bunchgrapes.com/dvd.html View a short,
> >>> low resolution clip here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q58zFY0B1M
> >>> A video about The Grape Grower :
> >>> http://cookingupastory.com/index.php/2008/04/18/the-grape-grower/
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Nov 2, 2011, at 5:05 PM, Robert Bruns wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Back maybe 15 or 20 years ago, some vendor (Burpee?) used to sell a
> >>> persimmon called Sweet Lent that was advertised to hang on the tree all
> >>> winter. I haven't heard of it in a long time. Maybe someone in NAFEX
> >>> has
> >>> it??
> >>>
> >>> Fred
> >>> Central IN, zone 5B
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Steven Covacci <filtertitle@aol.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Group:
> >>>> Which of these American Persimmon cultivars retain their fruit on the
> >>> tree
> >>>> in the fall/winter in zone 6 (or zone 5b):
> >>>>
> >>>> Dollywood [D-128]
> >>>> Early Golden
> >>>> Geneva Red
> >>>> Mitchelina ['Lena]
> >>>> Morris Burton
> >>>> Szukis
> >>>> Wabash Yates
> >>>> Yates
> >>>>
> >>>> Of these, I think that only cv. 'Szukis' does (fide. Lee Reich).
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks,
> >>>> Steve (NJ; Z6b/7a)
> >>>>
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> >>
> >> ------------------------------
> >>
> >> Message: 3
> >> Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 01:49:52 +0000
> >> From: david liezen <chandos49@hotmail.com>
> >> Subject: [NAFEX] Winesap Harvest
> >> To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> >> Message-ID: <SNT114-W63ABBD1BC2A42B1F6BA3BDBEDA0@phx.gbl>
> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> >>
> >>
> >> To the List:
> >> Had I expected this I might have waited to make the fall report today.
> >> Today, 3rd November, I tested my friend's Winesaps and found a Brix of
> >> 15. Despite (because of?) about ten nights of frost in the past three
> >> weeks they were in excellent shape. I detect just a bit of water core.
> >> We stripped the tree and got about half as many bags as last year.
> >> Apparently its biennial tendency is not as pronounced as I had
> >> feared.Early this summer I thinned the fruitlets and pruned a third of
> >> the upright growth and crossed branches. The result was heartening: nice
> >> size and color.
> >> This came as a bit of surprise as warm weather came fully a month late
> >> this year. Many thought a late ripening apple such as Winesap would not
> >> ripen this year. Nice to find good news.
> >> Dave Liezen, E. WA, z5/6
> >>
> >> ------------------------------
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> >> End of nafex Digest, Vol 106, Issue 4
> >> *************************************
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > Message: 2
> > Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2011 08:41:48 -0400
> > From: Ginda Fisher <list@ginda.us>
> > Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Winter Pomona
> > To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> > Message-ID: <1F517838-1143-464D-AA4E-12D8EC5079D9@ginda.us>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> >
> > Jackie,
> >
> > Is the winter one the one that gets mailed, or one of the on-line ones? I
> > confess that the odds of my reading an on-line Pomona are close to zero,
> > so I'm much more willing to write something for the printed version.
> >
> > Of course, this year was a total bust for me fruit-wise, so anything I
> > write will be a lament about critters, and perhaps isn't what folks want
> > to read anyway. Although I did browse on some fresh alpine strawberries
> > and Fall Red raspberries last weekend, and expect to do the same today.
> >
> > Oh, and what's your deadline?
> >
> > all the best,
> > Ginda
> >
> > On Nov 4, 2011, at 2:45 PM, Jackie wrote:
> >
> >> Dear NAFEXers,
> >>
> >> As the weather cools and Thanksgiving approaches, I find that I have so
> >> far one article to fill up the winter Pomona; we need many, many more. I
> >> know you're all busy, but if you can find ten minutes to write up
> >> information on your harvest, grafting experiences, new varieties,
> >> etc.--good or bad--we would all be grateful and all benefit. Email them
> >> to me or to Gretchen Ring, ring.gretchen@yahoo.com.
> >>
> >> Thanks so much. I'm looking forward to reading about your growing year.
> >>
> >> Jackie
> >>
> >> Jacquelyn A. Kuehn
> >>
> >> pennsacreskitchen.net
> >> wmugradio.org
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Nov 4, 2011, at 12:00 PM, nafex-request@lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
> >>
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> >>>
> >>> Today's Topics:
> >>>
> >>> 1. Re: American Persimmons that retain fruit on tree in
> >>> fall/winter (Robert Bruns)
> >>> 2. Re: American Persimmons that retain fruit on tree in
> >>> fall/winter (Lon J. Rombough)
> >>> 3. Winesap Harvest (david liezen)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>>
> >>> Message: 1
> >>> Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 12:27:50 -0400
> >>> From: Robert Bruns <r.fred.bruns@gmail.com>
> >>> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] American Persimmons that retain fruit on tree in
> >>> fall/winter
> >>> To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> >>> Message-ID:
> >>> <CAL0ZEbkD7FM9cuRhPgrGiQ1GgdqZJv=43fWiWb_97eDOQn8_Zw@mail.gmail.com>
> >>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> >>>
> >>> To clarify, Edible Landscaping carries Rosseyanka, but not Sweet Lent.
> >>> I
> >>> think it was Jerry Lehman who initially brought Rosseyanka from the
> >>> former
> >>> Soviet Union.
> >>>
> >>> Fred
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Lon J. Rombough <lonrom@hevanet.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Mike McConkey at Edible Landscaping has it. I think he was the finder
> >>>> of
> >>>> it.
> >>>> -Lon Rombough
> >>>> Grapes, writing, consulting, book, The Grape Grower, at
> >>>> http://www.bunchgrapes.com Winner GWA "Best Talent in Writing" 2003.
> >>>> Grape pruning video: http://www.bunchgrapes.com/dvd.html View a short,
> >>>> low resolution clip here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q58zFY0B1M
> >>>> A video about The Grape Grower :
> >>>> http://cookingupastory.com/index.php/2008/04/18/the-grape-grower/
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Nov 2, 2011, at 5:05 PM, Robert Bruns wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Back maybe 15 or 20 years ago, some vendor (Burpee?) used to sell a
> >>>> persimmon called Sweet Lent that was advertised to hang on the tree all
> >>>> winter. I haven't heard of it in a long time. Maybe someone in NAFEX
> >>>> has
> >>>> it??
> >>>>
> >>>> Fred
> >>>> Central IN, zone 5B
> >>>>
> >>>> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Steven Covacci <filtertitle@aol.com>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Group:
> >>>>> Which of these American Persimmon cultivars retain their fruit on the
> >>>> tree
> >>>>> in the fall/winter in zone 6 (or zone 5b):
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Dollywood [D-128]
> >>>>> Early Golden
> >>>>> Geneva Red
> >>>>> Mitchelina ['Lena]
> >>>>> Morris Burton
> >>>>> Szukis
> >>>>> Wabash Yates
> >>>>> Yates
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Of these, I think that only cv. 'Szukis' does (fide. Lee Reich).
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks,
> >>>>> Steve (NJ; Z6b/7a)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> __________________
> >>>>> nafex mailing list
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> >>>>> Subscribe, unsubscribe, change your user configuration or find out
> >>>>> more
> >>>>> about the list here:
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> >>>>>
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> >>>>
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> >>>
> >>>
> >>> ------------------------------
> >>>
> >>> Message: 2
> >>> Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 09:38:27 -0700
> >>> From: "Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>
> >>> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] American Persimmons that retain fruit on tree in
> >>> fall/winter
> >>> To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> >>> Message-ID: <633151D2-BD33-43E1-905D-0D6D6AEBB9B1@hevanet.com>
> >>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> >>>
> >>> Mike DID list Sweet Lent in years past. I remember his writing about
> >>> it. Usually if he has listed a fruit he will still have a source/tree
> >>> for custom production, so ask him.
> >>> -Lon Rombough
> >>> Grapes, writing, consulting, book, The Grape Grower, at
> >>> http://www.bunchgrapes.com Winner GWA "Best Talent in Writing" 2003.
> >>> Grape pruning video: http://www.bunchgrapes.com/dvd.html View a short,
> >>> low resolution clip here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q58zFY0B1M
> >>> A video about The Grape Grower :
> >>> http://cookingupastory.com/index.php/2008/04/18/the-grape-grower/
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Nov 3, 2011, at 9:27 AM, Robert Bruns wrote:
> >>>
> >>> To clarify, Edible Landscaping carries Rosseyanka, but not Sweet Lent.
> >>> I
> >>> think it was Jerry Lehman who initially brought Rosseyanka from the
> >>> former
> >>> Soviet Union.
> >>>
> >>> Fred
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Lon J. Rombough <lonrom@hevanet.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Mike McConkey at Edible Landscaping has it. I think he was the finder
> >>>> of
> >>>> it.
> >>>> -Lon Rombough
> >>>> Grapes, writing, consulting, book, The Grape Grower, at
> >>>> http://www.bunchgrapes.com Winner GWA "Best Talent in Writing" 2003.
> >>>> Grape pruning video: http://www.bunchgrapes.com/dvd.html View a short,
> >>>> low resolution clip here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q58zFY0B1M
> >>>> A video about The Grape Grower :
> >>>> http://cookingupastory.com/index.php/2008/04/18/the-grape-grower/
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Nov 2, 2011, at 5:05 PM, Robert Bruns wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Back maybe 15 or 20 years ago, some vendor (Burpee?) used to sell a
> >>>> persimmon called Sweet Lent that was advertised to hang on the tree all
> >>>> winter. I haven't heard of it in a long time. Maybe someone in NAFEX
> >>>> has
> >>>> it??
> >>>>
> >>>> Fred
> >>>> Central IN, zone 5B
> >>>>
> >>>> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Steven Covacci <filtertitle@aol.com>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Group:
> >>>>> Which of these American Persimmon cultivars retain their fruit on the
> >>>> tree
> >>>>> in the fall/winter in zone 6 (or zone 5b):
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Dollywood [D-128]
> >>>>> Early Golden
> >>>>> Geneva Red
> >>>>> Mitchelina ['Lena]
> >>>>> Morris Burton
> >>>>> Szukis
> >>>>> Wabash Yates
> >>>>> Yates
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Of these, I think that only cv. 'Szukis' does (fide. Lee Reich).
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks,
> >>>>> Steve (NJ; Z6b/7a)
> >>>>>
> >>>>> __________________
> >>>>> nafex mailing list
> >>>>> nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
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> >>> Message: 3
> >>> Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 01:49:52 +0000
> >>> From: david liezen <chandos49@hotmail.com>
> >>> Subject: [NAFEX] Winesap Harvest
> >>> To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
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> >>> To the List:
> >>> Had I expected this I might have waited to make the fall report today.
> >>> Today, 3rd November, I tested my friend's Winesaps and found a Brix of
> >>> 15. Despite (because of?) about ten nights of frost in the past three
> >>> weeks they were in excellent shape. I detect just a bit of water core.
> >>> We stripped the tree and got about half as many bags as last year.
> >>> Apparently its biennial tendency is not as pronounced as I had
> >>> feared.Early this summer I thinned the fruitlets and pruned a third of
> >>> the upright growth and crossed branches. The result was heartening:
> >>> nice size and color.
> >>> This came as a bit of surprise as warm weather came fully a month late
> >>> this year. Many thought a late ripening apple such as Winesap would not
> >>> ripen this year. Nice to find good news.
> >>> Dave Liezen, E. WA, z5/6
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> > Message: 3
> > Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2011 08:43:06 -0400
> > From: Ginda Fisher <list@ginda.us>
> > Subject: [NAFEX] Fwd: Winter Pomona
> > To: NAFEX Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
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> > oops, sorry. That was meant to be a private response.
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> > Ginda
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> >> From: Ginda Fisher <list@ginda.us>
> >> Date: November 5, 2011 8:41:48 AM EDT
> >> To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> >> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Winter Pomona
> >>
> >> Jackie,
> > <snip>
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