I just wanted to check in here and let people know that as the new chair for the NAFEX Apple interest group, I would love to get in touch with fellow apple enthusiasts in the Pacific Northwest. You don't have to be a NAFEX member, I happen to be a member of both NAFEX and CRFG, and would join HOS if I lived in Oregon. One of these days I will make the trip to Oregon to visit one of your scion exchanges. Our local CRFG scion exchanges are pretty loaded as well.

I grow 650 varieties of apples here in Santa Cruz county and would love to chat with other apple enthusiasts. Drop me a line, (use the E-mail link if you are a member here) or you can also drop by the Cloudforest at [url:1lq8vnl2]http://www.cloudforest.com/cafe/apples[/url:1lq8vnl2] and post there.

I also maintain a fruit Wiki that anyone is welcome to contribute to, I have been posting very detailed reports on the apples I am evaluating, see [url:1lq8vnl2]http://www.cloudforest.com/apples[/url:1lq8vnl2].

But I read this forum on a regular basis and will try to answer questions here too.