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Cider Digest #1755
Subject: Cider Digest #1755, 4 January 2013
From: cider-request@talisman.com
Cider Digest #1755 4 January 2013
Cider and Perry Discussion Forum
Contents:
Looking for orchard company (Mike Faul)
Re: Cider Digest #1754, 2 January 2013 (Jack O Feil)
Re: Ashmead's Kernel: triploid? ("Gary Awdey")
Biennial tendency ("Rich Anderson")
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Subject: Looking for orchard company
From: Mike Faul <mfaul@faul.net>
Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2013 15:17:19 -0800
I am looking for a company that knows apples, plants apples and can turn
15 acres or so of my hill in the Sierra foothills of California into an
orchard.
Anyone know of such a company? I have found plenty for vineyards.
Mike
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Subject: Re: Cider Digest #1754, 2 January 2013
From: Jack O Feil <feilorchards@juno.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 18:50:55 -0800
Ploidydetermination of Ashmead's Kernel from the ARS database, Cornell/
Geneva. This sites states that ploidy was done on this apple in the
Netherlands in 2008. Results, a triploid. I have one limb for evaluation
and will graft several more trees if I can sell the apples for cider.
It's a really good desert apple as well that we will sell at the farmer's
markets and our roadside stand.
Jack Feil
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Subject: Re: Ashmead's Kernel: triploid?
From: "Gary Awdey" <gawdey@comcast.net>
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 21:28:40 -0600
In CD#1754 Dick Dunn asked:
>
> In some random digging-around, I found conflicting info on whether
> Ashmead's Kernel is triploid or not. Anybody have concrete info or
> a really-good source to resolve this?
According to the USDA Agriculture Research Station - Germplasm Resources
Information Network (ARS-GRIN) Ashmead's Kernel was determined to be a
triploid in 2008 as determined by nuclear DNA content using flow cytometry
performed by Plant Cytometry Service in the Netherlands.
Gary Awdey
Valparaiso, Indiana
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Subject: Biennial tendency
From: "Rich Anderson" <rhanderson@centurytel.net>
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 17:04:31 -0800
Of the list offered I find Vilberie is very biennial, Porters somewhat. The
Kingston's while annual tend to have on and off years in terms of yield. One
you did not mentions is Brown's Apple which is very biennial. I think
regardless of what cider varieties planted , you will find a about a 15-20%
swing year to year other things equal. Biennialism is tricky business and
there are methods of dealing with it, but I suspects many of us live with it
rather than try to thin or spray it out.
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End of Cider Digest #1755
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