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["Frances and David" <fdnokes@hotmail.com>]

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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