To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Apricots from Afghanistan
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 16:39:04 -0700 (PDT)
Great point Scott: is there any way we can tell if the plant has Plum Pox
while it is still growing inside the house/quarantined before planting it
outside where it could infect local stone fruits?
Sarah
zone 3
Edmonton, AB
--- On Sat, 4/10/10, Scott Smith <scott@cs.jhu.edu> wrote:
> From: Scott Smith <scott@cs.jhu.edu>
> Subject: [NAFEX] Apricots from Afghanistan
> To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> Received: Saturday, April 10, 2010, 8:13 PM
> Doug, I am growing a couple Hunza
> apricots from the ARS collection --
> they have several that Thompson collected there years
> ago. They are
> not very precocious but I hope I can get some fruit this
> year (I think
> they were grafted about five years ago).
>
> What I wanted to add was they are not late blooming at all,
> they boom
> with my other apricots. The only ones I have found
> that are later are
> the white varieties; this year Zard, Canadian White
> Blenheim, and
> Shekar Pareh were about a week later than the rest which
> were more or
> less synchronized.
>
> Note that when any foreign seed of a stone fruit is grown
> out there is
> a risk for plum pox.
>
> Scott
>
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