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Post by MikeH on Feb 14, 2012 7:38:01 GMT -5
Yep. I stumbled across Kevin because I had Capilano Apricots on Google alert. We had a Capilano and a Manchurian pollinator but one died. We didn't know which because the tags had faded with the sun. (Lesson learned once and forever). The nursery that sold us the Capilano had no more stock and we've been unable to find a Capilano since. Even GRIN doesn't have. So when Kevin's name surfaced in my Google alert, I emailed him to see if I could get some scion wood. He wrote back that he had lost his pollinator but that I was welcome to scion wood. When I told him that I had a pollinator, he was very pleased. So we will trade scion wood this year. Since then, I've found someone else in Alberta who has a tree so with a bit of luck I'll have a Capilano apricot. Maybe I'll even be able to offer some wood to GRIN.  Attachments:
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Post by ottawagardener on Feb 14, 2012 8:00:16 GMT -5
That's the way to do it!
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Post by MikeH on Feb 14, 2012 11:36:08 GMT -5
Electrical tape is very good for mending broken branches. Sometimes drywall screws with washers are good to use before taping. When I try to imagine any carpentry work you might do, I come up with visions dominated by rubber bands, paperclips and band-aids. ;D Nonetheless, electrical tape will do in a pinch. Last summer, I managed, in the briefest of moments of lost concentration, to wound a rock elm sapling with my scythe. I couldn't immediately find my grafting tape so I grabbed my electrical tape. The sapling appeared fine going into the winter. Regards, Mike |
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Post by 12540dumont on Feb 14, 2012 12:26:39 GMT -5
Mike, Leo says that's what the whole farm is, I place an order and he does the work.... See, Nanook is helping too. So, I spoke to Rick last night and we went with the antonovka rootstock. I'm going to have something you don't see anymore in California... BIG trees. Once I finish up getting the apples and pears in, next season I'll work on apricots, peaches, plums and cherries. I gratefully read what is here on the site about fruit from seeds, and I'd love to buy seedlings. I'm just worried that by the time that the trees come, I'll be too old to deal with them. So I'm not going to try to start them that way myself. Ohh, don't you love giving things to GRIN. I just about bowled the Bean curator over, when I sent her beans! So glad about the apricot! I read about them that they grow on the side of the Capilano Freeway in Edmonton. Too bad ever city doesn't plant more fruit trees. Like the one Castanea posted about in England. Attachments:
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Post by MikeH on Feb 14, 2012 19:09:54 GMT -5
From the info I have from two independent sources, it would seem that the buffer zone on the left side of the road in this google map snippet, is where it grows. Grew? BTW, being Edmonton, it would seem that Capilano Expressway is now Gretzky Drive. As far as I know, the apricot's name is unchanged. According to Thean Pheh (an interesting person), it's not clear that the city planted them as apparently there were three apricots on the same strip of land and each was completely different which suggests open pollinated seedlings. Regards, Mike Attachments:
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Post by steev on Feb 15, 2012 0:06:48 GMT -5
I may be uninformed, but the tallest orchard ladder I know of is 15'. That's why I'll not plant fruit trees that aren't semi-dwarf. Having fallen a couple times, even a 15' ladder gives me the cole robbies.
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Post by oxbowfarm on Feb 15, 2012 5:38:13 GMT -5
Are those like colly wobbles? I've never been sure.
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Post by steev on Feb 15, 2012 9:34:01 GMT -5
More like the wim-wams.
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Post by castanea on Mar 4, 2012 0:40:08 GMT -5
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Post by edwin on Mar 4, 2012 9:47:11 GMT -5
GRIN  The Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) web server provides germplasm information about plants, animals, microbes and invertebrates. This program is within the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service. Ah. Got it. |
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Post by 12540dumont on Mar 4, 2012 12:53:48 GMT -5
Steve, I get dizzy on a step stool, but someone has to have big trees that last a 100 years. Besides, Leo LOVES tree work. He's a genius and isn't afraid of heights like sissy girl here. I'm planning to do some tree Snaking...see the brochure. Or along with Ottawa, the dread Espalier French for "do you have your pruning shears?" We always wanted Apple Cordons. My orchard management books just arrived. I'm frantically getting beds arranged for the new scion wood coming in. Yikes, out to the garden! The above was stolen Shamelessly from the NC Coop Extension. It's a good pruning guide. It's on line. Attachments:
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Post by MikeH on May 24, 2014 4:23:58 GMT -5
We're very interested in apples that are disease and pest resistant. It seems to me that you have to stay away from many of more popular apples today because of inbreeding. About 64% of 439 cultivars and selections studied was found to be descended from only five founding clones: 'Mcintosh ' (101 cultivars), 'Golden Delicious' (87 cultivars), 'Jonathan' (74 cultivars), 'Cox's Orange Pippin' (59 cultivars), and 'Red Delicious' (56 cultivars). Among these, 96 cultivars had two or more of the five founding clones in their parentage. Other frequent cultivars occurring in pedigrees included 'James Grieve', 'Rome Beauty',and 'Wealthy'. 'Mcintosh' was extensively used as a parent in Canada (it is present in pedigrees of 37 of the 65 Canadian cultivars sampled), the United States (34 of 115), and eastern Europe (11 of 41), but rarely occurred in pedigrees from other countries (5 of 159). 'Golden Delicious' was found in the pedigrees of many cultivars from Pacific-Rim countries such as Japan, China, Australia,and New Zealand (26 of 47), from western Europe (18 of 50), and to a lesser extent from the United States (21 o f115). 'Jonathan' was mostly used in breeding programs in western Europe (13 of 50) and in the United States (29 of 115). 'Cox's Orange Pippin' contributed to 30 of the 62 cultivars released from the United Kingdom compared to 15 of the 50 cultivars from western Europe and 10 of the 227 cultivars from all other countries. 'Red Delicious' was frequent in pedigrees of cultivars from Pacific-Rim countries (17 of 47)) and from the United States (26 of 115).
Of 439 cultivars and selections sampled, 41% of those released before 1930 was related to at least one of the five main founding clones. This increased to 74% during 1940-60 and remained at 73% in recent releases.
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