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[Lee Reich <leeareich@gmail.com>]

I guess, then, it could be bees, or lack thereof.

Lee Reich, PhD
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On Jul 7, 2014, at 7:15 PM, mIEKAL aND wrote:

> 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.
>> 
>> Lee Reich, PhD
>> Come visit my farmden at http://leereich.blogspot.com/
>> http://leereich.com/
>> 
>> Books by Lee Reich:
>> A Northeast Gardener's Year
>> The Pruning Book
>> Weedless Gardening
>> Uncommon Fruits for Every Garden
>> Landscaping with Fruit
>> Grow Fruit Naturally
>> 
>> 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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