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Post by steev on Jan 27, 2013 12:24:42 GMT -5
What does bad fruit taste like?
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Post by mayz on Jan 30, 2013 4:39:42 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2013 0:28:40 GMT -5
I should take a pic and request an ID. I've repeatedly passed a similar looking plant, which seems to be wild or feral. Berries are apparently in nearby droppings, which suggest to me that they are not outrightly poisonous.
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Post by MikeH on Feb 27, 2013 5:52:07 GMT -5
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Post by castanea on Mar 3, 2013 21:54:51 GMT -5
Luther Burbank's old farm in Sebastopol, California, still has at least 8 old seedling trees that are heavily productive. They consistently produce the largest fruit I have seen on S. Domestica. Lon Rombough had seedlings of them and would occasionally sell seeds of his seedlings but Lon passed away last year.
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Post by MikeH on Mar 3, 2013 22:32:35 GMT -5
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Post by steev on Sept 25, 2013 20:23:09 GMT -5
No fruit on my Sorbus again, this year.
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Post by imgrimmer on Oct 31, 2013 4:10:36 GMT -5
This weekend I will visit my old hometown, there is an old service tree bearing fruits every year. If someone like I can have a look for some seeds.
Can I send it to the US? I read there might be difficulties with custom...
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Post by MikeH on Oct 31, 2013 4:43:48 GMT -5
Yes please. I'm in Canada. Sending seeds is not a problem. I'll PM you an address.
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Post by MikeH on Dec 15, 2013 11:56:23 GMT -5
Seedlings!!!!!!!!! The seed came from www.treeseedonline.com/ although it looks like he might be sold out. I've had really good success with everything that I've ordered from him. |
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Post by philip on Jan 6, 2015 14:00:04 GMT -5
Hello Everyone,
i have sorbus domestica seeds from a large-fruited breton variety. Don't have many left but contact me if you are interested (you don't need many anyway)
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Post by steev on Jan 6, 2015 21:02:31 GMT -5
mikeh: I've been procrastinating gathering/sprouting Mountain Ash berries, which would do very well on the farm as ornaments, but now I have to try them as a nibble.
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Post by philip on Aug 17, 2016 0:38:24 GMT -5
I tried taking a cutting of one of my true service tree seeds. It's said to be difficult to take cuttings of sorbus domestica, but maybe i'll be lucky.
This is the tree the cutting came from. German s. domestica variety "Sossenheimer Riese" (giant of sossenheim) largest-fruited variety of all trees in germany. It's growing in an open field, so i tied it to make it grow straight and i enclosed it with some good fencing against the cows.
A seed-grown tree from the large-fruited breton variety i found over here
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Post by philip on Aug 17, 2016 1:18:48 GMT -5
I went on a search of mature true service trees in brittany 2 years ago. I found and visited 10 trees. Below is a picture of fruit from 2 different trees. One small one and the largest-fruited one i found. There is a big difference in fruit sizes. The breton trees are often brown-apple-shaped. The average size of the large fruit was 35mm. The coin in the picture is 26mm and the largest fruit next to the coin was 42mm. (for this picture i picked the largest fruit of a whole bag i collected but average size was only a bit smaller at 35mm)  |
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Post by philip on Aug 17, 2016 1:38:27 GMT -5
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