Re: [Apple-Crop] MAIA 2016 newsletter

2016-12-15 Thread David Doud
Hello Claude - As we’ve talked about evaluating seedlings, looking for ‘outliers’ has always been mentioned - breeding with parents that we consider the best desert apples produce a lot of ‘pretty good’ progeny and very few seedlings that lie outside the parameters of the parents - but there a

Re: [Apple-Crop] MAIA 2016 newsletter

2016-12-15 Thread Claude Jolicoeur
David, I was most interested to see in this newsletter that you are initiating effort to develop genuine cider apples. As far as I know, this would be the first program in modern era in North America to explicitely search for cider apples. There has been one in France and one in England, but