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[Lee Reich <leeareich@gmail.com>]

Most showy flowers -- and Nanking flowers are very showy -- are insect 
pollinated. I would go with the too-few-clones theory. I have a row of about 
10 plants that bloom early and every year for the past 20+ years has been 
loaded with fruits, late frosts notwithstanding. 

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On Jul 7, 2014, at 4:05 PM, mIEKAL aND wrote:

> I have a patch of about 7-8 plants right next to my house.  Last year
> was extraordinary production, some of the plants yielding a gallon of
> fruit, which for Nankings is a lot.  This year they have a couple
> fruit on each of the plants.  So I don't think it has anything to do
> with compatibility.  It tells me that they are not wind pollinated,
> most assuredly insect pollinated and last winter took a terrible toll
> on polinators.
> 
> ~mIEKAL
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Devin Smith via nafex
> <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org> wrote:
>> I've also noticed a lack of good fruit set on my nanking. I have 10 or so, 
>> all suckers from a friend's mature plantings. I wondered if he may have 
>> divided clumps of them at some point, and so maybe I only got a couple 
>> clones. But mIEKAL, it sounds like you should have plenty of opportunities 
>> for compatible pollenizers, and still don't have a good crop. I've grown 
>> out some seedlings to get some more diversity, but it sounds like that 
>> alone may not solve things. I guess distance can be pretty important: bugs 
>> move a lot slower that early in the season. Any ideas what may be going on?
>> -Devin Smith
>> Rockingham, VT
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