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blowin
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| Moonwaves wrote: | | I'm obviously very unobservant because I've never noticed berries on a fuchsia before. ......... Can you post twigs? |
I had been looking for them for ages before I found any . I had it in mind that they would be a round , red-to-dark , berry . I don't know where I got that idea from but they aren't ! They actually look very much like a flower bud which hasn't yet opened . I found it quite difficult to tell the one thing from the other at any distance so I guess I must have walked straight past loads of them .
I don't see any reason why cuttings shouldn't be sent by post . A bit of damp cotton wool held onto the cut end with a wrap of clingfilm would be good but probably not essential if it was semi-ripe or hard wood .
I'll set up a separate thread under the "Exchange" section .
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GB
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Location: Ireland
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| Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 9:52 am Post subject: |
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place your cuttings in a ziplock bag with a damp - not wet - sheet or two of kitchen towel. Blow the bag full of air before sealing and post. They will probably loose all their leaves but should root just fine for all of that.
good luck
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blowin
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| Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 1:01 am Post subject: |
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Well, I still can't find any more !
Should they be ready yet ? Is it worth making a trip to the garden centre ?  |
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GB
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| Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 1:27 pm Post subject: |
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berries should be ready round about now
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wayland
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| Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 8:19 am Post subject: |
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Ours are still well in flower.
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GB
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| Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 9:47 am Post subject: |
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the nice thing about fucia is that they do berries and flowers at the same time but the fruit tends to look ALOT like un-opened flower buds so a close look is required, and sometimes a bit of disection 
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quarryman
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| Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 9:57 am Post subject: |
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We have a beautiful mature fucia and our 10 Old English x has managed to eat most of the berries within a couple of feet of the ground. So they must be good. Blowin, come down and take a few cuttings whenever you want.
[We also have a fucia growing out of a crook in a beech tree.] |
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Moonwaves
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Location: Dusseldorf
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gardener
Joined: 17 Sep 2007
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Location: SW Ireland
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| Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 12:03 pm Post subject: |
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If you're still looking for cuttings of the edible fuchsia Future Forests, Kealkil would be able to help - theres a clump of it growing there and they could post some on......
027 66176 or www.futureforests.net |
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Camile
master baker - French style
Joined: 14 Dec 2006
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Location: North East Co. Galway
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| Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 12:46 pm Post subject: |
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Hi Blowin,
I just had a look at our fuschias and there are plenty of berries on them .
Feel free to come and help yourself with some cuttings ..
PS: I think my tree will go down sooner than expected
Camile
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