From: "V. Michael Bove, Jr." <vmb@teakettlefarm.com>
To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [NAFEX] anyone else growing yellow black raspberries?
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 19:22:18 -0400
I'm wondering whether anyone else on the list is growing "black"
raspberries that have bud-sported over to producing yellowish fruit.
I have a couple of such plants that I believe to have originated a
number of years ago in a batch of rooted Cumberland cuttings.
They're a little more vigorous than the other blacks, have a
decidedly odd taste that nevertheless goes okay with vanilla ice
cream, and the fruit has a really unattractive color scheme (imagine
Gulden's brown mustard with faint streaks of black shoe polish
running through it), but _darn_ are they productive even in the
unirrigated acidic weedy and poorly-lit corner to which they've been
exiled.
--Michael Bove
Teakettle Farm, MA/RI border (zone 6)
[NAFEX] anyone else growing yellow black raspberries?,
V. Michael Bove, Jr., 03/26/2007