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[mIEKAL aND <qazingulaza@gmail.com>]

I emailed Will Bonsall of the Scatterseed Project about the origins of
the apios he sent me and he had this to say.  He is located in Maine,
so extreme hardiness in a prerogative.

"I did get a few clones from the LSU project, but never distributed
any of those; in fact they didn't do exceptionally well here. Instead
i have shared tubers from a wild patch i discovered on a riverbank in
a nearby town. Since all of the populations in the northeast which
have been tested are a single triploid clone, we're not likely to see
a lot of variation, at least not that is genetic in origin."

~mIEKAL



On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 5:52 PM, mIEKAL aND <qazingulaza@gmail.com> wrote:
> After 20 years my planting has spread maybe 50 feet from the origin.
> It's great as an understory in mature nuts but you need to be able to
> dig them up.  They've gotten into my vineyard and I have prune the
> vines out 2-3 times a summer because believe it or not, the vines grow
> faster than the grapes.  Of course if you set up your planting design
> so you were always harvesting the outside perimeter, one could control
> spreading that way.  Mine saw -28F so they are indeed hardy.
>
> ~mIEKAL
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Andrew Hahn <andrew.p.hahn@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> Dr. Cannon is offering two strains through the seed savers exchange this
>> year. I'm giving both of them a try. They are in a raised bed in my orchard
>> to help provide nitrogen for a few of my trees. Perhaps they will be a good
>> orchard companion, does that bring it back on topic ;)
>>
>> https://exchange.seedsavers.org/catalog/listing.aspx?itm=131475
>> https://exchange.seedsavers.org/catalog/listing.aspx?itm=131479
>>
>> Andy
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Message: 7
>>> Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 00:05:39 -0400
>>> From: Melissa Kacalanos <mijwiz@yahoo.com>
>>> To: nafex mailing list at ibiblio <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [nafex] Apios
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>>> Thanks for finding this great information. I'm glad someone picked up
>>> where LSU left off. So, which one of us is going to pester Steven Cannon 
>>> at
>>> Iowa State U for some apios tubers to grow?
>>>
>>> Melissa
>>>
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