Their prediction that a couple degrees of warming will make apple growing
unsustainable is a little premature;
I grow over 100 varieties of apples, including Gravenstein and Bramley, in an
inland valley outside of Los Angeles temps far hotter than Sebastapol on about
250 chill hours per year. In fact, I have a nice crop while the nearby
mountain orchards are suffering a lean year.
Kevin Hauser
Kuffel Creek Apple Nursery
Riverside, CA
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:46:59 -0400, Daniel Cooley dcoo...@microbio.umass.edu
wrote:
Thought you all might be interested in this story.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-apple20-2009aug20,0,1483053.story
Daniel R. Cooley
Dept. of Plant, Soil Insect Sci.
Fernald Hall 103
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003
Office: 413-577-3803
dcoo...@microbio.umass.edu
FAX 413-545-2115
http://people.umass.edu/dcooley/
Office location: 103 Clark Hall
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