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  • From: "Frances and David" <fdnokes@hotmail.com>
  • To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] fruit trees
  • Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2013 22:41:44 -0800

Thanks, Elizabeth.
(I was hoping that someone might take an interest, and you're the first!)
I have written you off list.
I suspect, though, that geography will make a difference here.
We are located on Vancouver Island, just north of Nanaimo.
Washington State is the closest part of the U.S.
Cheers,
Frances

-----Original Message----- From: elizabeth bell
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2013 7:55 PM
To: permaculture
Subject: Re: [permaculture] fruit trees

could you please send me an email contact for the person who is
selling their cider press?


On 12/23/12, Frances and David <fdnokes@hotmail.com> wrote:
Sea buckthorn not only produces a highly nutritious fruit (which requires
processing and gloves to harvest), but it is, reputedly, a most adaptable
plant to earth conditions, and has natural protection from other creatures
that might want to harvest the fruit. And, it is a nitrogen fixer!
***
We were chatting with an apple and pear specialist who has run a traditional
cider press for decades. (He is selling off his equipment, btw... complete
with support and consultation to the new owner)
He explained what the off/on nature of apple harvests was about – this, no
doubt, applies to other fruit trees as well...
People often refer to the phen. of an ‘on’ year and ‘off’ year for apple
harvest. What Bill explained was that, the trick is to thin the apples when
they are the size of ping pong balls, making selections among closely
located specimens... Otherwise, the tree has such a huge hormonal output
that it has little energy for the buds it is also preparing for the next
year. The trick is to even out its hormonal workload with a result of a more
consistent year-to-year yield. Otherwise, what happens is that the buds are
few for the following year on the year of a huge apple outlay, and then, in
the year with less apples, the buds for the following year are
proportionately higher in number... Very interesting to learn about the life
cycle of the apple tree, we thought, and to understand more about its
productivity cycles.
I guess the expression might be ‘pinch back’? Not sure... Not even sure that
I’m using quite the right terminology when it comes to the sending out of
buds for the following years. I’ll check with Dave. He likely remembers
more...

Fran
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