Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Clove Currant-- early dormancy?
Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 01:03:52 +0000
Ditto mine. I've also wondered if it isn't a leaf disease, but the over-all
health doesn't seem effected. Big healthy shrub except for early senescence
[sp?]. I might take some samples of any lesions to the local diagnostic
lab, if others are interested. (As far as I know my shrubs are the one
clone w/in a couple-few miles, and they don't produce fruit.)
I agree with most of what others said. Mine are probably self fertile, have
nice fruit, and a wonderful fragrance when in bloom. (I have some from two
sources, but they fruited when they were all from one source.) But I
wouldn't recommend them for fall foliage. At least here in eastern MA, they
get ratty-looking in the late summer, and have dropped their leaves by "fall
foliage" season. Mine might have some virus or bugs or something, but they
keep getting bigger and producing more fruit, so I think they just do their
thing earlier in the season, and head off into dormancy earlier than most.
But they don't look especially nice as they do so.
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