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Re: [nafex] bug resistant apple?



Jim, I will check with him next time I visit (Labor day).  He has pretty
good records, so probably yes.  He also doesn't like tart apples, and
has been very disappointed with the tree.  I do like tart apples, and
will probably take a scion one of these days.  (illegal?  They've
stopped offering it).  It also makes a pleasant fresh cider by itself.

Ginda Fisher

jim wrote:
> 
> Ginda, could you pull up the clone number on that Liberty sib?
> 
> Several years ago, Dr. Goonwardene, USDA at Purdue, identified a number of
> selections in the PRI program that showed varying degrees in resistance to
> fruit-feeding insects.  Such material would seem to have some real value for the
> resistance breeder who has another 50 years  of work-time left!!
> 
> Jim Cummins
> Geneva
> 
> Ginda Fisher wrote:
> 
> > My husband's uncle has an apple tree that gets very little insect
> > damage.  It was one of the Cornell numbered trees (a sibling of Liberty)
> > and is hardy and productive, with tasty flesh if you like tart apples (I
> > do).  He does have a few other apples on the property, all of which have
> > lots of bugs.  BUT the skin on the resistant one is very tough and
> > somewhat bitter.  I have assumed that the apples resist bugs BECAUSE the
> > skin is tough and bitter - hard to chew through, and perhaps a little
> > toxic, at least to worms.
> >
> > Yours sounds like a winning home orchard tree.  I second Lon, take good
> > care of it, and give scions to friends.
> >
> > Ginda Fisher
> > Zone 6, Eastern Mass.
> >
> > "Lon J. Rombough" wrote:
> > >
> > > I've been looking for apples resistant to insects, particularly codling
> > > moth, for years.  So far I have found some that get less codling moth, but
> > > none that are free of it.  In a lot of cases, it turns out that the variety
> > > only works in a mixed orchard - the insects just prefer the other types and
> > > leave the one alone, as long as there are other apples to go to.  Plant the
> > > "resistant" one by itself so the insects have no choice and it will get
> > > them.  Even so, such types are worth collecting as they may give us clues to
> > > types that are REALLY resistant.  Hang onto it Ward, or make sure lots of
> > > folks have it to test and preserve.
> > > -Lon Rombough
> > > ----------
> > > >From: "Ward Barnes" <ward_p_barnes@hotmail.com>
> > > >To: nafex@egroups.com
> > > >Subject: [nafex] bug resistant apple?
> > > >Date: Thu, Jul 20, 2000, 9:54 AM
> > > >
> > >
> > > >Hi everyone:
> > > >
> > > >In my orchard of some 50 apple trees I have one that over the past 3 years
> > > >has had no or very few worm or other bug damage even in years (like this one
> > > >in which I did not spray) that the other apples are hit very hard.  This is
> > > >my wife's favorite eating apple and is not a bad cooking apple either.  The
> > > >variety is unknown to me as this was a fully developed orchard prior to me
> > > >purchasing the property.  Can this be a bug resistant apple and can the
> > > >properties be transferred to established trees (I don't see how) or perhaps
> > > >onto rootstock to establish a more reduced labor organic orchard?
> > > >
> > > >Ward Barnes
> > > >Coastal Zone 7
> > > >Middlesex County, VA.
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