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["Brungardt, Sam (MPCA)" <sam.brungardt@state.mn.us>]

Good point, Bob and Idell.  I don't have a decent solution for selling the 
trees as are the club apples.  Maybe a night visit to one of those compact 
tree orchards at full bloom to collect pollen?  
 
Still, I'd like to think some of the selections might end up being propagated 
and sold by the nursery industry.  Seems like no rootstock is very successful 
for peaches, and this development (compact trees on their own roots, if 
that's what it is) would fill both commercial and amateur growers' needs. -- 
Sam

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From: nafex [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of ROBERT W 
JUDY A
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2014 11:24 AM
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Subject: Re: [nafex] Scientists are creating half-sized peach treesto make 
picking fruit easier (Modern Farmer)

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

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

-----Original Message-----
From: nafex [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Idell 
Weydemeyer
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2014 10:13 AM
To: 'nafex mailing list at ibiblio'
Subject: Re: [nafex] Scientists are creating half-sized peach trees to make 
picking fruit easier (Modern Farmer)

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

-----Original Message-----
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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