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["Jim Fruth" <jimfruth@charter.net>]

Betsy,
   What size are your cherries?  That is the size to use if you want to 
fool the birds.

Jim


-----Original Message----- 
From: Elizabeth Hilborn
Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2016 9:06 PM
To: mailing list at ibiblio - Northamerican Allied Fruit Experimenters
Subject: Re: [nafex] Saving cherries from the birds (Good Fruit Grower)

I would like to try this technique. What is the diameter of the beads?

Betsy Hilborn

On 2/3/2016 9:00 PM, Jim Fruth wrote:
>    We have a store here in Pequot lakes, MN called Weise Clothing but I 
> have yet to see any clothing there.  They have stuff that I've seen 
> nowhere else.  The part of the store that we are concerned stocks beads of 
> many shapes, sizes, colors, made of various materials and findings (stuff 
> to make jewelry). Might one call it a "hobby shop"?  If we didn't have 
> that store, I would Goggle "plastic beads for crafts."
>
>
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Dan Nave
> Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2016 6:16 PM
> To: mailing list at ibiblio - Northamerican Allied Fruit Experimenters
> Subject: Re: [nafex] Saving cherries from the birds (Good Fruit Grower)
>
> Jim, where do you get the plastic cherries?
>
> Dan
>
> On 1/28/2016 9:08 PM, Jim Fruth wrote:
> > Sam,
> >
> >    I grow sour cherries and have ZERO bird problems.  Why?  I hang red 
> > plastic 'cherries' in the trees and leave them in the tree the whole year 
> > around, replacing them as they fade.  Also, I put red painted stones in 
> > the strawberries as soon as blooming is finished.  The birds peck on the 
> > rocks, hurt their beaks and don't come back.  AND I hang raspberry shaped 
> > berry beads around the perimeter of the red raspberry patch as soon as 
> > blooming is done. It doesn't work 100% but it helps.  Black berry beads 
> > do not work with blackberry and black raspberry and I don't know why not.
> >
> > Jim Fruth
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message----- From: Brungardt, Sam (MPCA)
> > Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2016 9:16 AM
> > To: mailing list at ibiblio - Northamerican Allied Fruit Experimenters
> > Subject: [nafex] Saving cherries from the birds (Good Fruit Grower)
> >
> > Saving cherries from the birds 
> > <https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.goodfruit.com/saving-cherries-from-the-birds/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYBSoTNzM1ODEzMTQ0NDE1NTI3MTA4MjIaZGZlMDEyNzc3YmU4NDVhNjpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNEDJr2TLeRcvRkWWfJdDVTo2gvesQ> 
> > (http://www.goodfruit.com/saving-cherries-from-the-birds/ )
> > Good Fruit Grower
> > Cherry growers sometimes feel like they're growing fruit mainly for the 
> > birds, but there is new information that can help them make informed 
> > decisions ...

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