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[Deb Schneider <debs913@gmail.com>]

Done.  thanks, idell!



On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 12:30 AM, Idell Weydemeyer
<iwgarden@earthlink.net>wrote:

> 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
> To: 'nafex mailing list at ibiblio'
> 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.
>
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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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> >   1.  Frost tolerance of ripening apples (Alan Haigh)
> >   2. Re:  Tips for starting a scion exchange? (John Bunker)
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> > Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 13:16:21 -0500
> > From: Alan Haigh <alandhaigh@gmail.com>
> > Subject: [nafex] Frost tolerance of ripening apples
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> > I've decided to
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> study<http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/load/fruit/msg111118576986.html#
> >f
> rost
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > If the quality of any of these apples drops off noticeably in next couple
> > days I will keep you posted.
> >
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> > Message: 2
> > Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 17:18:30 -0500
> > 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
> > PO Box 520
> > Waterville ME 04903
> > 207 426-8500
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> > Visit Fedco Trees on Facebook
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> > On Nov 1, 2013, at 10:39 AM, Andrew Hahn wrote:
> >
> >> 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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> >> Willem
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