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Re: [nafex] Scientists are creating half-sized peach treesto make picking fruit easier (Modern Farmer)

From: "ROBERT W JUDY A" <hartmansfruit@msn.com>
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Subject: Re: [nafex] Scientists are creating half-sized peach treesto make picking fruit easier (Modern Farmer)
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 09:24:09 -0700

I think Idell was referring to the fact that a lot of the University produced new varieties of whatever are like the club apples. There is no place where an individual can buy a club apple tree. You have to be special licensed and grow many trees with fruit for the market only. No one else can get their hands onto a club apple. It could be the same way for these new peach trees.
Bob
Puyallup

-----Original Message----- From: Brungardt, Sam (MPCA)
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2014 8:56 AM
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I shared this story because I thought it great that publicly funded research was concentrating on downsizing peach tree size without a dwarfing rootstock. Just because it will have a commercial application doesn't mean that the resulting cultivars will not be suitable for amateurs or hobby growers; some may be. And, the resulting cultivars could possibly serve as parents in a enthusiast's (read NAFEX member's) own breeding program. -- Sam in St. Paul

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From: nafex [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Idell Weydemeyer
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2014 10:13 AM
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I think the universities may live in a rarified world that speaks with commercial growers primarily--not the rest of us -although we pay taxes too but do not get research topics made for us.

Idell weydemeyer

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From: nafex [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Road's End Farm
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2014 8:00 AM
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Subject: Re: [nafex] Scientists are creating half-sized peach trees to make picking fruit easier (Modern Farmer)

Dwarf fruit trees are a new idea?

And here I thought that bright idea was older than I am. (And I am getting up there.)

The specific varieties might be new; and/or getting specifically peaches down to the size they want might be new, I suppose; but the article is very odd in that it seems to think that the whole idea is new.

-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 6A now I think Fresh-market organic produce, small scale

On Aug 19, 2014, at 10:46 AM, Brungardt, Sam (MPCA) wrote:

Modern Farmer
Peach breeders at the University of California, Davis are
experimenting

with a new way to make fruit farming safer: shrink the size of the trees.

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[nafex] Scientists are creating half-sized peach trees to make picking fruit easier (Modern Farmer), Brungardt, Sam (MPCA), 08/19/2014
- Re: [nafex] Scientists are creating half-sized peach trees to make picking fruit easier (Modern Farmer), Road's End Farm, 08/19/2014
  - Re: [nafex] Scientists are creating half-sized peach trees to make picking fruit easier (Modern Farmer), Idell Weydemeyer, 08/19/2014
    - Re: [nafex] Scientists are creating half-sized peach trees to make picking fruit easier (Modern Farmer), Brungardt, Sam (MPCA), 08/19/2014
      - Re: [nafex] Scientists are creating half-sized peach treesto make picking fruit easier (Modern Farmer), ROBERT W JUDY A, 08/19/2014
        
        Re: [nafex] Scientists are creating half-sized peach treesto make picking fruit easier (Modern Farmer), Brungardt, Sam (MPCA), 08/19/2014
        
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        Re: [nafex] Scientists are creating half-sized peach treesto make picking fruit easier (Modern Farmer), Road's End Farm, 08/19/2014
        Re: [nafex] Scientists are creating half-sized peach treesto make picking fruit easier (Modern Farmer), Brungardt, Sam (MPCA), 08/20/2014