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["Jerome Osentowski" <jerome@crmpi.org>]

Marilyn,   They should come true to about 70%.  I am takeing prop material
from some 80 year old appricot trees in the valley here and grafting them
onto hardy root stock. Keep planting out the seeds.  jerome
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Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute
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Basalt, CO 81621   U.S.A.

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>From: CHINAGRVE@aol.com
>To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
>Subject: [permaculture] Apricot trees
>Date: Fri, Jan 3, 2003, 9:56 AM
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> My daughter is renting a place with quite a few very large old appricot
> trees and she had a mega crop last year.   I started about 6 trees from the
> pits but about 15 or more have just sprouted.   What are the chances they
> will be similar to the parent trees being  they are older standard trees?
> My land is in the foothills of the mts. of NM so it's not the easiest place
> to grow fruit trees.   I'll be working on a greywater system this spring -
> I have a separate bathhouse that I'm going to use the roof and tub water
> combined to water these trees.  I currently have a few apple and plum trees
> but haven't thought of trees in these numbers before.  Any ideas?
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> Marilyn
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