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  • From: "Donna &/or Kieran" <holycow@cookeville.com>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] self fruitfulness
  • Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:35:38 -0600


"You can watch an unfertilized flower.  It just slowly dries up and falls off.  "
 
 
The same thing happens to flowers that have been exposed to just enough cold to kill the pistil without damaging the petals. I have been horrified to peer closely at a single flower on lovely branches of plum blossoms, and see a little dead black thing in the center. And another and another.  The peaches are harder to spot.   It happens to Chaenomeles quince too.       Donna



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