John S said

I talked to Joanie just before she ended the HOS.  She said it was mostly because we couldn't get enough volunteers for the events.  There were plenty of members, plenty of people willing to attend the events, and plenty of money. It's just that you can't run the events without volunteers running them. I'm also glad that the HOS exists as an online forum.  I do still think I have Miss Jessamine, but it's hiding on the back side of one of my trees.

John S
PDX OR

  

John: You posted that one year plus ago (January 28, 2024 - 9:31 am). I copy pasted it to make it more clear to those newer people so that they can have a greater sense of our distress we have as volunteers. So the closure of our historic swap meets was due to manpower shortages ,essentially the same stress being felt now caused by spam. 

Sorry to hear that you are still feeling that form of adversity, but at least you have my email to start over if necessary. 

I haven't been active on this but like the idea of not losing touch. 

I am interested, too.

I'd like to be on the email list, do I need to message you my email?

Thanks,

Kevin

sweepbjames said
Wellp, kind of a downer to me. I had planned a last local offering of that Quince "Cook's Jumbo", scion wood locally. Turns out it is really that one, only catalog entries with that "football" sort of shape are it. Also was going to post a picture of Ume Plum as it is now about 2-3 % into a white bud popcorn stage. Thinking why bother? the interest was only bio-regionally if of any sort of note, really nothing beyond that. Sorry to see this extension not make a go of it, I guess the bump in the road was just  insurmountable, sort of took the wind from the sails. Anyway,,,,see ya, if I see ya.
 
James B
  

RE: Ume Plum

There were genetic markers done on the various plums in 2019 and the Ume is shown closest to Nankings, which nankings in and of themselves were thought to be cherries about 60 years ago. It goes to show how progress goes when better tools and best ways of sampling things improve.

Speaking of progress, I think it's a loss that big pocketed entities that support the next AI revolution picked on us by sending bots to the forums. It's the biggest factor to the closing and the least would be boredom. At least it's not been a boring one to me. 

Speaking about Ume. I enjoyed seeing you farm your dried ume harvest through the times as well. I just found the recent picture I took of you so I will edit this post after it's uploaded. For now, (until I see ya' all in some other form forum or place sooner or later) thankyou to all the leadership, volunteers, and shared experiences.

Should anyone be interested in developments as far as pollinations with apples or plums in wet springs then John_S is probably one of my closest email contacts to reach me. After years with self pollination results I think I have created a new scientific way of cloning apple cultivars through a process whereby cultivar DNA, when special conditions merrit, goes to seedlings (apomixis). 

THE LINK TO PICTURE OF SWEEP_B_JAMES AND UME