[MassChestnutOrchards] Striking out

[Fred Hebard]

John,

Have you all been looking at mineral nutrition?  Low phosphorous will  
delay onset of bloom.

Fred

Frederick V. Hebard, PhD
Staff Pathologist, Meadowview Research Farms
American Chestnut Foundation
14005 Glenbrook Ave.
Meadowview, VA 24361

Email: Fred at acf.org
Web: http://www.acffarms.org
Phone: (276) 944-4631
Fax: (276) 944-0934


On Jul 11, 2009, at 1:56 PM, JohnViolin7 at aol.com wrote:

> Maybe trees just tend to be more erratic up here, for whatever reason.
>
> Also, I have many orchard trees which are pushing 30 ft. now, and  
> in full sun, and they have yet to bloom at all. (The blighted ones  
> do generally get goosed into bloom when smaller.)
>
> I sometimes wonder what the implications of this would be to our  
> local breeding program, and whether giving the trees certain  
> nutrients (or withholding them from them) would push them into  
> bloom earlier in their life span. Of course all our inoculated BC  
> trees will be goosed by blight to some degree I guess.  John
>
>
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