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[mIEKAL aND <qazingulaza@gmail.com>]

Lee, I don't understand the logic.  If I have a planting that is
almost 20 years old, & every year without fail they are loaded with
fruit EXCEPT for this year, why would the lack of genetic variation
come into play?  Also my commercial planting is over 200 plants from
about 4 or 5 different nurseries mixed with Bali cherries. It would be
hard for me to believe that Schumachers, Lawyers, Mussey and other
nurseries wouldn't represent the breadth of the nanking cherry
germplasm.  These plants are all grown out from seed, not tissue
culture.

And we didn't have any issue this spring with late frosts,  our issue
was the coldest winter in recorded history, 50+ days below zero. No
bee life to speak of still around these parts...

~mIEKAL



On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Lee Reich <leeareich@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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