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Old 02-25-2008, 09:54 AM   #8
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I'll BEE damned.

Only had peaches last year no apples on five trees. I think I am going to polinate them myself this year. I had plenty of honey bees show up though for the male pumpkin flowers that I let go to full unprotected bloom after I had used what male flowers I needed to polinate the female pumpkin plants I was growing. The only problem is the pumpkin flowers bloom after the fruit tree bloom has gone by.

I am going to take a q-tip or just another flower and make whoopee with all the flowers myself and see what happens. I have some really unique apple trees that I haven't been able to grow anything on so far. One tree comes from a tree planted in Maine in 1705, a Cox's Orange Pippin. I really need to eat one these apples.

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