Cider Digest #0875

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Subject: Cider Digest #875, 12 September 2000 
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Cider Digest #875                                         12 September 2000 

                 Forum for Discussion of Cider Issues 
                      Dick Dunn, Digest Janitor 

Contents: 
  Re:New cider website (Tim Bray) 
  confused apple tree? (Dick Dunn) 

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Subject: Re:New cider website 
From: Tim Bray <tbray@mcn.org> 
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 08:46:04 -0700 

Thanks, Andrew - will check this out! 

Speaking of websites, though - whatever happened to CiderSpace?  It  
disappeared a couple of years ago and I thought it was supposed to be moved  
to a new site. 

Tim Bray 

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Subject: confused apple tree? 
From: rcd@raven.talisman.com (Dick Dunn) 
Date: 10 Sep 00 22:22:49 MDT (Sun) 

This is marginally cider-related...but has to do with a (cider) apple tree 
and I know some of us here are trying to grow cider apples. 

A few weeks ago, I noticed that one of my young trees had been attacked and 
lost a bunch of leaves to a pest which, upon examination, I found to be a 
tomato hornworm!  I'd never heard of anything like this, but I figured that 
maybe it was a desperate critter _vs_ a tree young enough to be abnormally 
vulnerable.  I dutifully dispatched the hornworm to an alternate reality. 

Since that time, I had noticed that this same little tree had some tips 
that looked like springtime new-growth ready to emerge, which sort of made 
sense as a recovery from being attacked and losing a lot of foliage. 

But yesterday when I was mowing around the trees, I saw a *blossom* on this 
tree!  Now, I'm in the northern hemisphere...we are at the end of summer 
and around here we're perhaps a few weeks from our first frost.  Is this 
tree just temporarily confused, or is there something I should do to it to 
help it find its way back to reality-as-we-know-it before winter arrives? 
- --- 
Dick Dunn          rcd@talisman.com          Hygiene, Colorado  USA 
   ...Simpler is better. 

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