Dear fruit lovers, Do you know that: a.. Date palm is the oldest fruit known to man. It was under cultivation 5000 years ago. b.. Mango has over 1000...
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Harvey Correia
harveycorreia
Jun 20, 2008 3:10 pm
I thought it would be interesting to find out how large fruits are at different areas. Most of my plants are still small, just having been rooted in spring...
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Harry Rajgor
harryrajgor
Jun 20, 2008 9:22 pm
Harvey, The nursery plants you planted last year, how old are they? I have one I bought two years ago, cv. Evergreen, is still in 3-gal pot and about 3.5ft....
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Harvey Correia
harveycorreia
Jun 21, 2008 12:37 am
Some were rooted in the spring of 2006 while the larger ones were rooted in the spring of 2005. The older ones flowered last year but only produced small...
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Barbara Baer
barbarabaer62
Jun 21, 2008 4:25 pm
Hello Havey and all, I have very small fruit on my oldest tree, a Wonderful, but small fruit developing on varities I've taken as cuttings from Davis three...
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Harvey Correia
harveycorreia
Jun 21, 2008 9:25 pm
Hi Barbara, I would suggest only leaving a small amount of fruit on and only on branches that look strong enough to support it. It will save your plant from...
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meninajimmie
Jun 22, 2008 6:35 pm
... at ... been ... Harvey, In Phoenix, AZ, I have trees which are 4 years of age. I measured a half dozen fruit of the Wonderful and a seedling variety, and...
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Michael Nave
jmichaelnave
Jun 23, 2008 12:40 am
Eversweet was bred to produce fruit in a cool coastal climate so it tends to be earlier in a hot dry climate. The only problem with that is that you have an...
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phil pieri
phil_p_2001
Jun 24, 2008 1:25 am
Mike -- Are you saying that eversweet is not a very good pom. or that it is not a very good pom. when grown in a hot climate. Phil in a cool climate, trying to...
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Michael Nave
jmichaelnave
Jun 24, 2008 2:22 am
It's not a very good pom. It's sweet but there's not much flavor to go with that sweetness. I used to have one and took it out. It wasn't worth the space it...
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yyadda
Jun 26, 2008 4:37 am
I know this doesn't sound on topic., but hang with me for a moment. The US Library of Congress is working to replace books lost during a fire in the 1800's....
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Harvey Correia
harveycorreia
Jun 26, 2008 5:24 am
yyadda, thanks for that note. How did you learn of that? I was just there in April and visited the LOC, including the Thomas Jefferson collection. The...
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yyadda
Jun 26, 2008 11:56 pm
Hi Harvey, I heard about it on NPR (National Public Radio). They interviewed one of the curators searching for the replacement books. He specifically...
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Harvey Correia
harveycorreia
Jul 6, 2008 5:50 am
I don't care for these types of "best" stories, but thought it was still worth passing on. ...
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Patrick
meninajimmie
Jul 9, 2008 2:29 am
Greetings all: Of the many varieties of cuttings we acquired from the USDA in Davis California in February 2008, most have leafed out and our about two feet in...
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Harvey Correia
harveycorreia
Jul 9, 2008 2:47 am
Patrick, That sounds very unusual. I have no experience with that cultivar and have not heard it discussed previously. Is that a supposed to be a...
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Patrick Smith
meninajimmie
Jul 9, 2008 5:47 am
Harvey, it is DPUN 0014 on the USDA list. Molla Nepes is a small seeded variety that I have seen rated as good for fresh eating from some CRFG members at the...
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luc vleeracker
lucvleeracker
Jul 9, 2008 3:17 pm
Always wanted to ask what DPUN stands for .....somebody once told me there's no such thing as a stupid question..... Â Luc ... From: Patrick Smith...
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Harvey Correia
harveycorreia
Jul 9, 2008 3:37 pm
You're right, Luc, glad you brought that up. D=Davis, PUN = Punica. I asked Jeff Moersfelder last year because it was bugging me not knowing. Now it...
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luc vleeracker
lucvleeracker
Jul 9, 2008 11:26 pm
Thanks Harvey , I kind of figured out the PUN , but couldn't come up with a word for the D ... From: Harvey Correia <harveycorreia@...> Subject: Re:...
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Patrick Smith
meninajimmie
Jul 10, 2008 4:10 am
Thanks Harvey and Luc, I will share that bit of information with those helping to grow out the cuttings. Patrick ... From: luc vleeracker...
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Joe Real
joe.real
Jul 21, 2008 10:34 pm
POM Wonderful wins lawsuit against Purely Juice July 21, 2008 2:17 PM ET (AP) - A federal court has ruled that Purely Juice is not so pure after all. The U.S....
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Joe Real
joe.real
Jul 21, 2008 10:39 pm
I picked my cuttings late winter from the Germplasm and have grafted Mola Nepes and also planted directly into the ground by just sealing it with parafilm...
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Michael Nave
jmichaelnave
Jul 22, 2008 2:07 am
Very interesting. I have had Purely juice that was OK but other Purely juice barely tasted like pomegranates at all. I quit drinking it....
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ariel023
ariel0232003
Jul 22, 2008 3:16 am
Interesting lawsuit and I think we should all practice law besides fruits growing...
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Joe Real
joe.real
Jul 22, 2008 3:35 am
That's a full time job perfectly suited for Ariel....
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ariel023
ariel0232003
Jul 22, 2008 3:45 am
Dear Real Friend I mainly specialize with the Ethiopian family law - which is quite distant from the juicy - horti legal arena There are but a few juice...
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Joe Real
joe.real
Jul 22, 2008 4:06 am
Dear Great Friend Ariel, You've got a nice job that combines both worlds. Anyway, over here, you can also declare something to be 100% juice, and it would...
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Michael Nave
jmichaelnave
Jul 22, 2008 4:23 am
Ariel, Here we can also sell frozen chickens as fresh chickens, legally. We have many other bizarre laws, the results of politicans selling their favors to the...
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ariel023
ariel0232003
Jul 22, 2008 7:15 am
Hi 100% Real human Are not we 95% pure human juicy red blooded Is not our blood made of flavoured water?...
