Rooney said

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
  

sidebar to the photo: admittedly late for the drying step in the salted plum processing, I opted to use my sons hoop house as weather threatened open air drying. The fan pictured was not involved in the process.

John S said
My pineapple guavas almost died a few years ago.  I think it might have been the summer when it got really hot.  They looked like they were dying of thirst. Many leaves fell off and limbs looked dead.  I tried watering them, but apparently it wasn't enough.  So I made a plan.
I installed an olla under each one.  This is a large clay pot that you fill with water during the hottest months and it slowly seeps out.  It was invented by indigenous groups in the Southwest.  I refill it about once a week in the summer.  We have hot, dry summers.  I also biocharred them all the way around at the drip line.  Then I deep mulched them with wood chips.  Then I pruned back the mulberry tree that was partially shading them.  
They slowly seemed to recover. Last year, they looked healthy but didn't fruit. Finally, this year, they flowered heavily this year.  I hand pollinated them and this year, they are both fruiting.  I am now enjoying the fruits of my labor!  
Don't let your pineapple guavas get too thirsty. They won't like it.  
John S Cool Games
PDX OR
  

That’s really inspiring, John! The olla and mulch idea is super helpful. I’m new to pineapple guavas, so this gives me hope. Thanks for sharing!

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

John S
PDX OR

John S
PDX OR

" He is a meddler in my business. I need to get him out of here. " e.g.

I think that most people pronounce it as med LAR now to clarify what we're talking about.

Sad about that tree that was loaded.

JOhn S
PDX OR

A few days ago I came across an old TV episode of Midsommer Murders, circa 2002.

(This is a long-running British show mostly broadcast on PBS).

The non-murder subplot was the detective's wife processing medlars at home.

The last scene was many jars of preserved medlar.

They pronounced the fruit as "meddler".

This is the first and only time I have seen medlars mentioned on mainstream TV.

Also, a medlar tree near me in SE Portland was removed this year or last;

I encountered the homeowner the other day and they said "it had to be removed".

Perhaps I can get more details another time, as the smallish tree was not in anyone's way.

It was loaded with fruit in December 2024.

James B

Thanks,

Kevin

JohN S
PDX OR

davem said

jafar said
Dave, there's a great website called growingfruit.org  .  There may already be a topic like that, or if not it is a very active form with lots of traffic.
I kind of like the entries on orangepippin.com.  Have you done it?  Can you upload a spreadsheet or something, or must it be one by one?
  

I don't recall visiting growingfruit.org but I seem to already have a login l, so I must have visited in the past. I will check it out.
I have made a few entries on orange pippin, one at a time. I agree, I would only upload my lists in bulk. I have 200 varieties of edible plants, it would take forever to do them one at a time.
  

Dave, RegisTREE of North America (your third link) asks that you contact them if you have a large data set you would like imported into RegisTREE, so they must have some mechanism for uploading large databases.

jafar said
Dave, there's a great website called growingfruit.org  .  There may already be a topic like that, or if not it is a very active form with lots of traffic.
I kind of like the entries on orangepippin.com.  Have you done it?  Can you upload a spreadsheet or something, or must it be one by one?
  

I don't recall visiting growingfruit.org but I seem to already have a login l, so I must have visited in the past. I will check it out.

I have made a few entries on orange pippin, one at a time. I agree, I would only upload my lists in bulk. I have 200 varieties of edible plants, it would take forever to do them one at a time.