00:41:59 Kaitlyn Chambers: Interested to find out more!
00:42:35 Leslie Wade, Host: Thanks, Kaitlyn!
00:45:30 Chris Homanics: awesome
00:46:08 Leslie Wade, Host: Feel free to throw any ideas for next year’s Interest Group meetings in the chat
00:47:14 Andrew Walsh: Interest group idea: pushing the climate boundaries of fruit growing. There is some very interesting work being documented on the Growing Fruit forums on growing avocados in more northerly locations like Seattle, and I myself (in Zone 5/6 in Canada) have started getting into growing figs and pomegranates, with the long term goal of getting Zone 5/6 stable figs and poms.
00:47:46 Andrew Walsh: There are also a number of good books on the topic, as well as a lot of people in Alberta, Canada pushing apples as well
00:48:06 Chris Homanics: Great idea Andrew, definitely there is interest in pushing zones. Also in the Seattle area
00:48:47 Kaitlyn Chambers: Is there a group for Southeastern fruit growers? I’ll be helping to establish an orchard in the next year and would love advice.
00:48:51 Nate Blackmore: Great idea, I’m planting out an orchard of subtropicals in santa cruz to evaluate commercial potential for new subtropical crops. All about it!
00:49:13 Chris Homanics: Southern Fruit Fellowship is a FB group
01:01:37 Jorge Z.: Sorry
01:01:42 Jorge Z.: Bad internet
01:02:27 Jorge Z.: Grove of seedling Psidium guajava trees
01:02:36 Jorge Z.: In Redland, Florida (Homestead)
01:04:16 Lana: Anyone not presenting, please shut off your video. That can help with streaming.
01:05:48 Shane Gadsby: I’ve never had much luck with grafting Mulberries either, very fussy, haha
01:06:57 Andrew Walsh: I unfortunately don’t have any photos prepared, but I’m happy to discuss a project I’ve begun: cataloguing seedling apples local to me in search of the most well-adapted apples for my area with the best qualities. I’ve had some success over the past couple of years with the project, I’ve been finding some very good apples.
01:07:14 Leslie Wade, Host: Sounds good, Andrew
01:08:18 Robert Kean: When I field graft mulberry, I wait until the rootstock is just starting to leaf out.
01:10:11 John and Chrisitne: We’ve successfully grafted different cultivars at the same time in the field. What worked for us is the scions need to be fresh and grafted preferably within 24 hours. For time of the year it’s like with most fruit trees, when the buds start swelling in the spring, it’s the most ideal time to graft. They are all producing fruit now.
01:14:00 Janet Pflederer: What part of eastern Canada? Maritimes?
01:14:55 Kaitlyn Chambers: Seedling apples are really amazing! I attended the 3rd annual Pomological Exhibition in Massachusetts, which had about 160 wild and seedling apples or pears to sample.
01:16:15 John and Chrisitne: Great to hear that you’re propagating apples in Canada!
01:16:38 Tom Melton (he/him): Hey folks! I’m in a noisy space so unfortunately I can’t turn on my microphone. I’m a library science master’s candidate at UNC-Chapel Hill doing research on organization of information in the context of pomology. I spent a large chunk of the summer in UNC’s Wilson Library combing through the collected papers of the late Lee Calhoun, who lived and grew about half an hour south of here. His archived correspondence included a number of physical copies of old Pomona articles; stumbling upon Mr. Stephenson’s “Taste Evaluations of Some Little-Known Deep South Apples” was a highlight for me. Really grateful and excited to be at my first NAFEX conference!
01:18:04 Leslie Wade, Host: Thanks for sharing that, Tom. Love what you’re working on.
01:20:05 Ruthanne Edward (she/her): Oooo, nice.
01:20:11 Leslie Wade, Host: Wow, what a beautiful pear, Gloria!
01:20:18 Shane Gadsby: Absolutely gorgeous!
01:20:58 Nick Kasko: Super cool!
01:21:32 Andrew Walsh: This is why cataloguing and preservation is important! Never know when a developer will get their hands on the land!
01:22:39 Gloria Bell: Yes Andrew – looks like the land is being prepped to be either sold or developed… 🙁
01:23:04 Gloria Bell: I’m in Western Canada
01:23:16 Gloria Bell: zone 8
01:23:51 Olivia Mandilk: Hi All,
I’m a board member of the Monterey Bay Chapter of the California Rare Fruit Growers. Last month, we held an Apple Tasting for the public that included 72 varieties of rare and heirloom apples grown by members who have apple orchards. You can view photos of each of the apples that were included in the tasting and the ratings of the apples on our website, here: mbcrg.org.
You can also view info about other rare fruits our members grow here:
Instagram: montereybay crfg
Facebook group: Monterey Bay Chapter of the California Care Fruit Growers.
01:23:52 Andrew Walsh: I don’t have the space for dozens of apple trees, so I’ve started giving my grafted seedling apples to friends, that way I know the genetics will be preserved with them, even if the original is destroyed.
01:24:39 Leslie Wade, Host: Olivia, I saw that event. My father lives in Santa Cruz area and I encouraged him to go on my behalf!
01:24:56 Leslie Wade, Host: This is Leslie Wade from the NAFEX board. 🙂
01:25:01 Andrew Walsh: Either way, getting scionwood and propagating is massively important. Seedling trees are 1/1, meaning when it’s gone, it’s gone!
01:27:36 Olivia Mandilk: @Leslie Wade, I hope your father was able to attend the Apple Tasting on your behalf!
01:30:49 Leslie Wade, Host: We’re not at all jealous that Chris is tasting those beautiful red fleshed apples.
01:31:18 Andrew Walsh: Steve from Skillcult is huge on crabs as breeding bases as well
01:31:38 Gloria Bell: yes he is
01:32:28 Nick Kasko: Had the Marechal, super bitter!! 😫
01:35:35 Andrew Walsh: I’m extremely jealous of the selection in front of you right now
01:35:45 Gloria Bell: don’t have that one Chris!
01:36:17 Eric Bina: Great Chris, now I want all those apples! But I don’t have the space
01:38:10 Jean Williams: Could Eric explain some of the terminology in the apple pedigrees? What does the extra letter on an apple name for apples that are not known yet mean–like “P” or “UP” or “F”?
01:38:17 Leslie Wade, Host: Welcome to our new members!
01:39:10 Eric Bina: Jean, in the pedigree data in published data, everyone seems to use different term for unknown parents
01:39:16 Tom Melton (he/him): Re: Persimmons For Everyone: I took a look on WorldCat and it looks like there are 17 institutional copies of Persimmons For Everyone in the US. Possibly something an institutionally-affiliated person could attain through interlibrary loan
01:39:40 tarabell: The HER designation reminds me of JulesJanick’s (Purdue U) selection naming system. He might have sent to David Crowe in Nova Scotia. Richard Bell
01:39:43 Eric Bina: so UP_ menad unknown parent P_ means parent, and F_ means unknown father.
01:40:13 Leslie Wade, Host: Thanks for that suggestion Tom.
01:40:53 Jean Williams: Thanks, Eric!
01:42:06 Andrew Walsh: John it sounds like you’re really pushing boundaries with fruit growing, as I was briefly discussing in the chat earlier.
01:42:11 vagabond recon: John cummins here. in tennessee
01:42:31 Andrew Walsh: What’s your favourite apple that you’ve grown up there/ the best performing one?
01:42:42 Andrew Walsh: I know someone who may want that info
01:42:45 vagabond recon: son of jim cummins
01:43:00 vagabond recon: Cumminsnursery.com
01:44:20 Jeanne Calabrese: Are you growing cherries from the romance series?
01:45:29 Andrew Walsh: A last question: what rootstock do you use? Antonokova? B118?
01:45:56 gil: have you tried Wynooche Wartly?
01:46:04 gil: Early
01:46:49 Olivia Mandilk: Thanks for sharing, Jeff Lenart! Very interesting!
01:47:02 Andrew Walsh: My question was directed at John to be clear
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