To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] apricots from seed
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 07:35:18 -0500
Karen wrote:
> My largest apricot, which is either Sungold or Moongold, had a bumper
> crop last week. I ate as many as my stomach could tolerate; dried a
> few hundred, and made a rhubarb-apricot jam. The tree is from Fedco;
> it was visited by a welcome swarm of bees as it bloomed this spring.
> Fruit had surface blemishes, but was GOOD!
> I've been told it is grafted; any reason to save and grow the seeds??
You never can be sure what you will get from seed. At worst, some rootstock
to experiment with, at best, a new variety better than any other available.
Of course, it is much more likely to just raise some rootstock, but that is
what I am hoping to do with the seeds that I have been planting.