From: "Brungardt, Sam (MPCA)" <sam.brungardt@state.mn.us>
To: nafex mailing list at ibiblio <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [nafex] Scientists are creating half-sized peach trees to make picking fruit easier (Modern Farmer)
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 15:56:51 +0000
I shared this story because I thought it great that publicly funded research
was concentrating on downsizing peach tree size without a dwarfing rootstock.
Just because it will have a commercial application doesn't mean that the
resulting cultivars will not be suitable for amateurs or hobby growers; some
may be. And, the resulting cultivars could possibly serve as parents in a
enthusiast's (read NAFEX member's) own breeding program. -- Sam in St. Paul
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From: nafex [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Idell
Weydemeyer
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2014 10:13 AM
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Subject: Re: [nafex] Scientists are creating half-sized peach trees to make
picking fruit easier (Modern Farmer)
I think the universities may live in a rarified world that speaks with
commercial growers primarily--not the rest of us -although we pay taxes too
but do not get research topics made for us.
Idell weydemeyer
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From: nafex [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Road's End
Farm
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2014 8:00 AM
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Subject: Re: [nafex] Scientists are creating half-sized peach trees to make
picking fruit easier (Modern Farmer)
Dwarf fruit trees are a new idea?
And here I thought that bright idea was older than I am. (And I am getting up
there.)
The specific varieties might be new; and/or getting specifically peaches down
to the size they want might be new, I suppose; but the article is very odd in
that it seems to think that the whole idea is new.
-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 6A now I think Fresh-market organic produce,
small scale
On Aug 19, 2014, at 10:46 AM, Brungardt, Sam (MPCA) wrote:
> Modern Farmer
> Peach breeders at the University of California, Davis are
> experimenting
with a new way to make fruit farming safer: shrink the size of the trees.