[MassChestnutOrchards] Striking out

Wed Jul 8 12:27:04 EDT 2009

How many nuts would the Dartmouth orchard need in order to complete its
short line?

On 7/7/09 10:28 PM, "John Emery" <johnviolin7 at aol.com> wrote:

> Yvonne,

Weather permitting, I will pollinate two 20-bag roadside trees with a
> 
single Nanking B2 pollen, one this week, and one next.

Also, I will do an
> American tree that survives at Tower Hill with (what 
I believe to be) pollen
> from the same Graves parent that was used in 
'08 on the Wayland mother of the
> seedlings going to Westerly this 
summer. Some from that line are planted at
> Lancaster MA, and I hope in 
addition to your seedlings, to be able to provide
> you with plenty more 
nuts in that line for planting in Westerly in 2010.
> Charlotte tends to 
identify this line as Maynard, but recently it has been
> produced in 
Wayland, and now at both Tower Hill and Wayland!

I put up about
> 25 bags at Tower Hill for that purpose, and also have 
bagged an American in
> my Wayland orchard, a sibling of the one I 
mentioned at Tower Hill, (ca 25
> bags also). Thus I will try to augment 
this "Maynard"line even further, but
> "try" is the operative word, as I 
doubt at this point that the Wayland tree
> will make it to the fall.-I 
think the prospects for the Tower Hill tree are a
> lot better.

  At this point I have given up in disgust for this year on the
> nice 
Natick tree I was going to do. I did get a bucket truck operator to
> 
agree to help, but the damned owner of the office building cannot be
> 
bothered to give me permission, despite several phone calls and e-mails 
to
> various associated s
ecretaries and members of his family. Charlotte, 
you
> will be amused to know that as far as I can tell he,  a Mr. Wen, IS 
in
> China.

  And at this point I still hope to manage to pollinate the Natick
> tree 
in 2010 to provide my Wayland orcjhard with its second Nanking line.
> 
 John Emery Original Message-----
From: Yvonne Federowicz
> <Yvonne_Federowicz at brown.edu>
To: masschestnutorchards at masschestnut.org
Sent:
> Tue, Jul 7, 2009 5:44 pm
Subject: Re: [MassChestnutOrchards] Striking
> out

Answering my own question.. It looks from Charlotte¹s email on 7/7 that
> 
John is going to pollinate a Maynard tree for Westerly, RI.  I hope 
this is
> true still, Westerly¹s lines are getting pretty separated in 
time from each
> other.

If all goes well with the E.Greenwich, RI tree, we could have more
> 
(Nanking) nuts from it than will fit at South Kingstown, so perhaps 
some of
> those can go to a MA orchard?  John¹s?

However I see that Charlotte has a
> separate Nanking pollen for John¹s 
use...? Should I do 2 different Nankings
> on E.Greenwich?

 It has 75 bags, lots of multiple females per bag.  Also
> heavily 
blighted but looks sort of hypovirulent, bark is similar to the old
> 
surviving Glocester RI mother tree.

We will also hopefully have:
 Exeter
> (Nanking) -> South Kingstown, and
 Coventry (Clapper) -> Glocester

On
> 7/7/09 5:34 PM, "Yvonne Federowicz" <Yvonne_Federow
icz at brown.edu>
> 
wrote:

Is anyone else pollinating in MA this year, or were these the only
> 
prospects?

Thanks, Yvonne

On 7/7/09 5:05 PM, "Rufin Van Bossuyt"
> <rufin at charter.net> wrote:

Not having much luck this year. I was planning to
> pollinate a tree in 
Carver and one at Quabbin reservoir. I had an okay from
> NSTAR to help 
with the Carver tree. Then they had to decline as twelve
> electric 
circuits had to be trimmed on a priority basis. I went to the tree
> 
yesterday with a stepladder and pole to pull limbs down. Almost all of 
the
> flowers were at the crown and I hadn't been sure that I could have 
reached
> them from the bucket truck. Only a few of the flowers were 
lower and I could
> not reach them. Live and dead limbs are in the crown 
and large dead areas are
> along the trunk. Not sure if the limbs or tree 
would have lived through
> harvest if pollinated.
Today I went out to Quabbin ready to bag a tree. The
> tree is at the 
side of one of the gravel roads. It has no blight. It had been
> shaded 
and was not flowering. The DCR staff cut the shading trees down and
> 
last year it flowered and it was pollinated but only provided 32 nuts.
Today
> I had Bill Davis of MA Fish and Wildlife with me, Rick Farrell, 
area Arborist
> for National Grid, and a Bucket truck and two man crew 
provided by National
> Grid. As we approached the tree I could see a lot 
of catkins and it
> was20ready for bagging. However; as I went up in the 
bucket I wasn't seeing
> any female flowers. I found only 3 female 
flowers.The new growth was lush and
> about two feet long. The leaves 
were dark green. Still no blight.
Bill and I
> then drove down to the tree we pollinated twice before. The 
crown is dead and
> lower branches had a few flowers. The seedling nearby 
is still alive.
Bill
> and I looked at a tree near the shore of the Wachusett Reservoir 
that is tall
> but was shaded until DCR staff cut down the shading trees 
a few years ago. It
> now had a few flowers. No blight.

Maybe next year will be better. We take two
> steps ahead and fall back 
one but we overall make
> progress.

Rufin

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