Cross pollination of native fruiting shrubs
Liz
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What to plant to cross pollinate Bluecrop blueberries?
Comments (12)Are cultivated blueberries different from wild, need more fertilizer, or just to get them established? I think I recall that lowbush blueberries will tolerate drought and low organic matter soils better than highbush blueberries, but I don't know that the latter necessarily need more fertilizer. In fact, blueberries are adapted to low fertility soils and can do just fine without supplemental fertilization if other conditions are right. Research has demonstrated, though, that they do respond favorably to fertilization (particularly nitrogen), so you have the potential to boost yields if you do choose to fertilize. Then again, since your native soil is high in ammonium nitrogen, it's hard to say whether you'd see a significant benefit. Since blueberries have shallow roots and burn easily, you definitely don't want to overdo it. If you do choose to fertilize, an organic fertilizer would be the safest option, especially since you don't need a fast source of nitrogen. Cottonseed meal, for example, might be a good choice....See MoreWill these fruits cross-polinate - same gensus/different continen
Comments (9)First-off, impressive as ALWAYS, Kiwifruit! I should have thought to drop you an email. Btw, I think you said you were looking into picking-up a certain book (forgot the subject matter) a few months back that I should drop you an email for your review of it - maybe that wasn't you? I didn't know that chokeberries, pears, and mountain ash could cross with serviceberries (just knew that serviceberries chould be used as rootstock for them). What I gather from what you've written, even if hybridization occurred between the various native hawthorns, various native blueberries, between pear-serviceberry-[some]chokeberries, etc. these would likely be infertile donkies. I guess that apple orchards have made it impossible to know if your average crab apple (such as Malus coronaria) doesn't have some Malus x domestica in their lineage since they hybridize, or would the union between M. coronaria nad M. x domestica result in a sterile hybrid? Kiwifruit, I don't want to do embryonic rescue, since I don't want any native/non-native hybrids. As for sterile hybrids, I can deal with that; i.e. say if my Sorbus americana (American mountain ash) hybridized with my pears - at least the offspring would be sterile and I will not risk diluting the gene-pool of my native Aronia spp. and Sorbus americana plants. I don't mind non-natives crossing with non-natives, such as with pear types, as I will not be breeding non-natives, just having them for fruit. You say that different chromosome numbers and sterile hybrids would be the biggest problem - well, I would not mind sterile hybrids that are easily identifiable as hybrids (since they will not be mistaken for a distinctive native, but rather a hybridization between native/non-native), but I don't know what is meant by different chromosomes counts? John & theloud, Well, although I will be doing controlled (amateur-level breeding), I wouldn't exclude the benefit of having random chance seedlings pop-up in the woods and meadow should the fruits be superior. So, in this case, I would highly prefer to KNOW that there is not ANY realistic chance that native/non-native hybridization has occurred. theloud, Although Fragaria virginiana is a parent of the common garden strawberry, that doesn't mean that this was a natural union, etc. Thanks, Steve...See MoreCan different Viburnum spp. cross-pollinate eachother?
Comments (5)Yes, there it is on Landscape Design. Steve, I hope you got the answer you needed after posting it in all those places :) Good luck, viburnum is certainly a wonderful group of shrubs. That is a great old classic thread that Brent linked there and worth linking again here for folks that don't go over there. Here is a link that might be useful: Original viburnum dentatum and friends thread...See MoreCan differerent Viburnum spp. cross-pollinate mutually?
Comments (1)Ok, the answer to this was "yes" as long as they have overlapping bloom times. My v. dentatum and v. acerifolium have cross pollinated each other several years in a row. More extensive answers can be found by doing a search for "viburnums pollinate" (This same post was in about 5 other forums on garden web)....See Morefatamorgana2121
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