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["Idell Weydemeyer" <iwgarden@earthlink.net>]

Hi, 
can someone please forward this to our gathering editors for Pomona-- I
tried to send it and it keeps bouncing. 

Thanks,

idell

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[mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Idell Weydemeyer
Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2013 9:23 PM
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Subject: Re: [nafex] Pomona time

November 2013. Pineapple Guavas in El Sobrante, CA

Eight varieties of pineapple guavas (Feijoa sellowiana) are choice plants in
my garden. They produce ripe fruit anytime between late October into late
November although one year one fruit into January.  Fruit is very abundant
and the season is so long that to use them all, you have to leave them on
the neighbors door step at midnight and run. This year was quite unusual in
that one variety fruited in late September when no others did. Now in late
November, I have several others fruiting but one turned out to be a big
surprise.

In the past, three of my plants were seedlings but I took one out because of
poor flavor. One of the other two seedlings had few and very small fruit
with a marginal taste. Like most gardeners with too many things to do, I did
not get around to taking it out. Well, what a big surprise this year when I
discover this fruit shrub/tree had very large fruit (largest of all of
mine), unusually excellent flavor and it was totally overloaded with fruit.
The skin was very soft and sweet enough to eat. The fruit even turned soft
on the tree/bush so I could pick it and eat it immediately instead of
waiting for it to fall then ripen for several days. The change in fruiting
as near as I can tell is that I added a foot high mound  of  dirt around the
plant (I have very shallow soil-- 3"-18" deep.) then I covered the dirt with
about 4-5 inches of chips. It also turned out to be an excellent seedling
"variety".
 
Pineapple guavas are a great fruit for a "do-little" gardener like me. They
have no diseases, need no pruning or fertilizer, take some frost, and use
only modest amounts of water. They work well as windbreaks. In the spring,
petals are very large, a lovely pinky color and are as sweet as candy. The
only difficulty is finding named varieties because they are very hard to
graft or start for cuttings.  Fortunately for me, the main and maybe only
developer of pineapple guavas in the West lives only about two hours away
from me. He has a large collection, does development work and visits Uruguay
to collect more varieties from the wild.  He sells his plants at all the
Northern California scion Exchanges in January into February . 

Check out the informative Wilkipedia article at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acca_sellowiana on pineapple guavas.

Idell Weydemeyer' in El Sobrante CA Zone 9b   510-223-6291 iw garden at
earthlink dot net. 

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Jacquelyn Kuehn
Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2013 4:15 AM
To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: [nafex] Pomona time

Please, fruit fans, take ten minutes to write up a short (or long) report of
what's happening at your place in regards to fruit growing: good, bad,
ugly...others will benefit from your experience. Email the write-up to me,
jakuehn@verizon.net, or the gathering editor, Melinda McCuan,
wawo@yahoo.com.

Thanks so much!

Jackie Kuehn


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> I've decided to
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study<http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/load/fruit/msg111118576986.html#>f
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> tolerance of ripening apples more carefully than in the past. Just
> before dawn temps fell to 23.5 F in my orchard this morning. It was just
> below freezing at 9:30 the previous evening and was in the 20's for at
> least several hours.
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> None of the apples on the trees, which include Jonagold, Pink Lady,
> Goldrush, Newtown, Cameo, Winesap, Fuji and Braeburn appear to have
> suffered injury. When I first got up the Pink Ladies were frozen solid but
> nearby Goldrush were only cold. Now that fruit is fully thawed it has same
> crunchiness as yesterday.
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> The problem now is that the leaves seem so burned by the frost that I
don't
> know if they can still manufacture carbohydrate.  I was really hoping to
> get the Pink Lady and Goldrush a little more ripe before harvesting the
> remaining fruit.
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> If the quality of any of these apples drops off noticeably in next couple
> days I will keep you posted.
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> From: John Bunker <john.p.bunker@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [nafex] Tips for starting a scion exchange?
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> We have done a scion exchange every spring for the past 35 years.  If  
> you like to talk on the phone about it some time, please contact me  
> off-group.
> Best,
> John Bunker
> Fedco
> john@fedcoseeds.com
> www.fedcoseeds.com
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> On Nov 1, 2013, at 10:39 AM, Andrew Hahn wrote:
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>> Hi all,
>> I'm hoping to organize a scion exchange in Denver this winter. Does  
>> anyone
>> have any tips or suggestions to help make it a success?
>> Some question I can think of are:
>> What is the bed time to hold it?
>> How do you find people that would be interested?
>> Should I arrange for extra scion wood to be available?
>> Besides a grafting demo/workshop are there any other activities to  
>> have?
>> And probably lots more...
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> Andy
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