To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] University researchers working to perfect haskapberries for Canada (Vancouver Sun)
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 08:21:15 -0500
I got 25 Crimson Passion from Honeyberry USA, this year, & tho they
were tiny tissue culture plants 8" high, most of them are a very
vigorous 3' now after 2 1/2 months in the ground. I'm assuming the
Haskaps are tissue culture as well.
I also have been really annoyed by the Haskap name until I discovered
that the word is an ancient Ainu word for the fruit, which convinced
me it was a good choice of name. Plus without "honeysuckle" in the
name people's invasive plant alarms won't go off so quickly.
~mIEKAL
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 8:04 AM, Maria Schumann <mariaschu@vtlink.net> wrote:
> I got a shipment of haskaps from haskap central last year with 20%
> dead plants. The replacements they sent were poorly packed and in bad
> shape-- but mostly survived anyway. They are tough plants. This year
> I bought my haskaps from honeyberry USA (they also sell Uof S
> cherries)-- around the same price and the plants were better quality.
>