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Post by jack66 on Sept 17, 2010 13:02:28 GMT -5
Clap, clap, clap ! Bravo ! Mike , quel talent !
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Post by canadamike on Sept 17, 2010 13:12:45 GMT -5
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Post by jack66 on Sept 17, 2010 13:19:37 GMT -5
Mike ,
veux tu un soft en version portable (pas besoin d'installer sur ton pc) pour remplacer PICASSA ? Si oui, dis moi, je te mets sur un CD et hop! bonjour la poste. Je pense principalement à ACD System.
Tu sais que je t'ai piqué toutes tes photos, lol! mais je mets un copyright dessus mon ami , à ton nom bien sûr.
Et comment résister à une telle proposition qui pourrait t'apporter une aide si tu en as besoin. Retraité, beaucoup de temps. J'arrête parce que je deviens bavard comme une vieille femme.
Excellent weekend Mike.
Cordialement.
J@ck
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Post by blackthumbmary on Sept 17, 2010 18:49:12 GMT -5
Mike - Ce service de tapper les fesses...est-il disponible pour tout le monde ou seulement Jack66? je blague bien sûr.....
merci pour les photos....je suis jalouse...mes melons étaient plus petits que les vôtres.
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Post by canadamike on Sept 20, 2010 5:03:53 GMT -5
Not all melons were big Black, it all depends on genetics. One thing sure, I am meloned out for a few months now...
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Post by jack66 on Sept 20, 2010 5:18:17 GMT -5
Cool !
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Post by canadamike on Sept 21, 2010 22:39:16 GMT -5
I am coming back from a trip in the St-Laurence estuary, where things might happen for me next year. This region is called CHARLEVOIX, it is the most beautiful one in Quebec, looking a lot like the Maritime Alps. Unfortunately, I forgot my camera there and there is a melon I badly needed to salvage, the MÉLANGE DE BOURGOGNE, or BURGUNDY MIX once translated, coming from...Burgundy, France. I culled the ones I did not like to keep the most desirable form of the mix, it must be somewhere around F-5 or so, becoming mostly stable. It is a ribbed flatish netted melon ( at least for the form I selected) and is really delicious, definitely more true cantaloupe than musky taste wise. It is also quite productive. I'll have a lot of seeds to share later, I am in fact bored to hell to save melon seeds All will be OP this winter, but selected from the best ones and early enough for Ontario, so my southern friends should have a lot of fun.
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Post by grunt on Sept 21, 2010 23:45:49 GMT -5
Michel: Please set a few aside for me.
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Sept 22, 2010 5:34:36 GMT -5
I am coming back from a trip in the St-Laurence estuary, where things might happen for me next year. This region is called CHARLEVOIX, it is the most beautiful one in Quebec, looking a lot like the Maritime Alps. Unfortunately, I forgot my camera there and there is a melon I badly needed to salvage, the MÉLANGE DE BOURGOGNE, or BURGUNDY MIX once translated, coming from...Burgundy, France. I culled the ones I did not like to keep the most desirable form of the mix, it must be somewhere around F-5 or so, becoming mostly stable. It is a ribbed flatish netted melon ( at least for the form I selected) and is really delicious, definitely more true cantaloupe than musky taste wise. It is also quite productive. I'll have a lot of seeds to share later, I am in fact bored to hell to save melon seeds All will be OP this winter, but selected from the best ones and early enough for Ontario, so my southern friends should have a lot of fun. The Charlevoix?? They have roads on that side of the river? ;D You lost your camera or will someone send it back to you? I just hate when that happens. So what were you doing there? Looking for Aliens in the Crater or ancient vegetable varieties of QC? Or just playing Touriste? Nosey aren't I Michel, continued success with Melons. I wish I had even a quarter of the crop you had this year...
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Post by canadamike on Sept 22, 2010 6:53:05 GMT -5
Of course Dan!! Blue. I was visiting, but since they are so serious about ''local flavors'' some people there are interested to see me move in the area. I happen to like the idea We will see
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Sept 22, 2010 7:38:16 GMT -5
On the Negative side, I'm afraid you would forget English without the opportunity to speak it.... I would have to brush up on my very limited Quebecois...Let's see.... Arret.. Banque du Nationale..Creton..Laurentide On the Positive side , You could actually farm there and be applauded and rewarded by the the Province of QC for your efforts. What a novel concept. Knock, Knock, Knocking on Heaven's Porte
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Post by ottawagardener on Sept 22, 2010 8:03:23 GMT -5
Melon seeds always welcome here Michel if you have need for a melon saver. Sounds like a lovely region. I"ll have to look it up.
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Post by canadamike on Sept 22, 2010 15:09:03 GMT -5
Don't worry Blue, there are so many tourists from the USA and the ROC there that a lot of people are bilingual. In fact, La Malbaie was the first resort area in Canada, and it was the rich americans that kind of created it.
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Post by canadamike on Sept 22, 2010 22:18:30 GMT -5
I can hardly believe it, OLD TIME TENNESSEE gave me an acceptable melon here. The is also a large green fleshed one that I brought to my parents on my way to Charlevoix that was simply amazing. The trouble is I found it by pure luck far away from the patch, alone, with no way to find out from which plant it came, the plants long being gone and no stem close by, in that case I could have at least try to follow it to the rootball and the sign. But it is in an area of numbered accessions, and I had many green fleshed ones. I could not relate it to one I had already picked up. Surely the biggest green fleshed one I ever grew. Looks perfectly like your average large muskmelon, with a bit more of a green tint in the skin instead of the usual yellow-orangish once ripe. I'll call it MYSTERY GREEN for a little while Ha'Ogen No 2 is amazing and quite hard to differentiate from the usual one. Sorry, no pictures, but you can look up the original on the net and just pretend it is No 2 I also found another HOCHGENUS lost in the squash patch, and dang was it good too, although not exceptional. But it is the end of September!!
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Post by wildseed57 on Sept 24, 2010 21:53:05 GMT -5
Nice work Mike, I grew the Lune ville Melon and one called Montreal. This year was a bad year for Powdery mildew also because of heavy rains and high humidity. The Montreal melon didn't stand a chance, while the Lune Ville melon held its own until most of the melons were ripe. I was caught off guard by their ripening time and they sucked up way to much water and all of the melons were bland and tasteless although being bland is in no way what they would be if they were watered at the right time during there growth and held off while the melons ripened. So I will be growing this one again. Mike were you able to taste test a few? Some of them look like they would have tasted great, to bad you had to be away while many of the melons ripened. I would love to try a couple of the larger melons. P.M. is a scourge here also, I think it may be worth while to see if there could be a variety that would be hardy against it. As you found out a bad year could wipe out a entire harvest if the variety you grew was not resistant to PM. I think one reason why the Lune Ville made it was the fact that it was fairly hardy and the fact that I kept treating the leaves and vines with soda water and in worse cases liquid Lime and sulfur that I sprayed on everything. Even my Poor black currant bush was hit hard. I for one would love a good large OP Cantaloupe type melon that was resistant to PM as I have lost so many plants to it. George W.
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