KETCHIKAN ORCHARD REPORT

  —by Jerry Koerner Jerry Appleseed Nursery PO Box 6292 Ketchikan, AK 99901   Due to the La Nina reversal, Ketchikan experienced a very late and very cold spring in 1999, which severely effected our bloom time, pollination and ripening dates. Bloom time was delayed 4 to 6 weeks, as was the ripening dates for…

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Southeast Apple Tasting 1997

    by Joe Orsi   During the first week in October, Ed Buyarski, myself, and portions of our families participated in an apple tasting session from apples grown at our test orchards located north of Auke Bay, We collectively tasted 36 varieties of apples and recorded many of their attributes (Table 1). Although the…

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1994 MICRO-ORCHARD REPORT FROM SOUTHEAST ALASKA

  —by Joe Orsi   Since I began planting my micro orchard in Alike Bay near Juneau in 1991, this was the first year many of my trees flowered and set fruit. I had fruit on ten varieties of apples (Centennial, Discovery, Duchess of Oldenburg, Geneva Early, New Summer Scarlet, Red Astrachan, Rescue, Summer Rambo,…

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EARLY ALASKAN ORCHARD BEARS FRUIT TREE KNOWLEDGE

Thanks to Joe Orsi, one of our Southeast members, for the following–it’s a great article!   Dear Pam:   I enjoy reading the newsletter material and think you are doing a great job with it. In the last newsletter I really liked the piece by Bob Purvis on “Preparing Your Fruit Trees for Winter”, and…

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