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Cider Digest #1961
Subject: Cider Digest #1961, 8 May 2015
From: cider-request@talisman.com
Cider Digest #1961 8 May 2015
Cider and Perry Discussion Forum
Contents:
Re: Cider Digest #1959, 29 April 2015 (SMB WEBER)
Re: Cider Digest #1957, 19 April 2015 (SMB WEBER)
Apple Blight (Jay Kenney)
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Subject: Re: Cider Digest #1959, 29 April 2015
From: SMB WEBER <weberscrossing9@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 09:04:11 -0400
In response to M. Jolicoeur, there is a nice photo of Medaille d'Or here:
http://bighorsecreekfarm.com/medaille-dor/
The people who own the website seem pretty nice so may be glad to hear you
might want to use their photo.
On the topic of varieties, does anyone have any (cider) experience with
Champagne Reinette (I think from Serbia) or Isle of Wight Pippin?
For the orchard side of things, it would be great if there were one website
that had photos of fruit and blooms, bloom and maturation season, and
growth habits of cider varieties. I am willing to help with this, but
could not do it all, time wise and from the standpoint of cyber prowess.
We are recording our bloom successions this year for pollination charts,
but putting together drafts on the basis of what can be found has been
frustrating. Especially confusing is the 4 period season used in the US
compared to what is used in England (6 periods?) Also wondering what to do
when you get one variety (such as Cox's Orange) that supposedly blooms late
and really gets going early where we are. Maybe its mistaken identity, or
maybe it leafs far in advance of blooming, but these are typical questions
that relatively new orchardists could use help with if a repository of
collective wisdom were more easily available. The best thing I've found is
Tom Burford's earlier catalogue of apple varieties which we've used like a
field guide.
SMB Weber
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Subject: Re: Cider Digest #1957, 19 April 2015
From: SMB WEBER <weberscrossing9@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 09:32:14 -0400
Thank you for the description of changes in the British definitions of
cider. The practice of adding various spices, etc. would have come from
older mead traditions, wouldn't they? If various kinds of cider and perry
have distinct classifications, so that contents are made clear to the
consumer, would this way of proceeding still be seen as a financial or
other threat to cider making?
(Please note.....I am a new student here......)
SMB Weber
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Subject: Apple Blight
From: Jay Kenney <kenney.jay@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 5 May 2015 16:38:05 -0600
I'm in Colorado, south of the Digest Janitor by 40 miles or so. I have 13
trees in the backyard, between 5 and 2 years old, mixed varieties. Some
were hit hard by fire blight last year. I trimmed those and waited. We also
had a 40+ degree temperature drop in late November. Some of the trees are
very slow to recover and still show signs of blight. If I give those worst
hit trees another 6-8 weeks or longer to recover, am I putting the
remaining trees, including those that were not infected last year at all,
at risk of blight this year? The worst (3) hit are barely showing less than
20% secondary growth. The very best (just 1) leafed out perfectly and
blossomed strongly. The rest are somewhere in between including 3 just
planted. I know that blight susceptibility varies from variety to variety,
but don't know how to assess the risk of spreading the bacteria around.
Thanks!
Jay
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