Re: Apple-Crop: Time article (More on same)

2007-03-26 Thread Daryl Hunter
require more rigid harvesting requirements. There are hundreds more. The problem with these new disease resistant varieties, or even many old heirloom varieties that resist disease, is not their color, nor their flavor, nor storage and shipping quality, but in marketing and public acceptance. Daryl

Re: Apple-Crop: Early season hail damage

2007-06-23 Thread Daryl Hunter
in the lower canopy got less damage, bruising but not cutting. (Ignore the advertising on these two pages it is automatic when using free web sites.) Daryl Hunter Keswick Ridge New Brunswick Canada - Original Message - From: Maurice Tougas To: Apple-Crop Sent: Saturday

Re: Apple-Crop: Early bearing

2009-03-11 Thread Daryl Hunter
. If going into your orchard with a whip to beat your trees, I would suggest doing it after dark so nobody can see you. Daryl Hunter Keswick Ridge New Brunswick, Canada - Original Message - From: dmnor...@royaloakfarmorchard.com To: Apple-Crop Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 2:20 PM Subject

Re: Apple-Crop: Fireblight Update

2009-07-15 Thread Daryl Hunter
, Redfree and Liberty? Daryl Hunter Keswick Ridge New Brunswick Canada - Original Message - From: Deborah I. Breth To: Apple-Crop Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 12:43 PM Subject: Re: Apple-Crop: Fireblight Update Hi all interested in fire blight. I have been working with fire blight ever

Re: [apple-crop] arctic apples

2015-03-02 Thread Daryl Hunter
? It's an area of horticulture I'm not very familiar with. Daryl Hunter On Fri, 2/27/15, Fleming, William w...@montana.edu wrote: Daryl, The reason they breed by manipulating genes rather than conventional breeding is because it only takes years rather than decades to come up

Re: [apple-crop] arctic apples

2015-02-26 Thread Daryl Hunter
. It was an open pollinated apple found growing in a gravel pit. In their promotion of the Arctic apple they added a challenge, Now if we could just get rid of the seeds! Well, we have seedless apples here in New Brunswick too. Daryl Hunter ___ apple-crop