“Completely self-fertile. Requires a pollinator.”
This doesn’t make sense unless this refers to actual pollinators like bees and not a different pollen source (pollenizer).
It’s a translation error, the German version says complete self infertile
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I asked the owner about this matter. He told me that Chorus isn’t Daiogoumi. It originated as a seedling from korean seeds of unknown cultivar.
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I remain skeptical about this story.
I know for a fact that he obtained plants from a South Korean nursery in the early 2010s. At that time, the cultivar was called Daiougoumi. I received plants originating from this accession through another grower around 2019–2020.
Therefore, I believe that Carya may have taken a strain that had been selected over hundreds of years by indigenous East Asian people, renamed it, and obtained plant variety protection for it. It’s a bit of a Lubera move.
To be fair, they put in the effort to introduce it to the EU, and I do believe they should be able to profit from that. However, obtaining plant variety protection for a cultivar that has existed for hundreds of years simply by renaming it doesn’t sit right with me.
Did you ask Volodomyr about it too @Lech?
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Yes it is a translation mistake, as @Rubus said.
It needs a pollenizer, actually a rather early flowering one.
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My theory is that Daiougoumi is not really a single variety but maybe the name for a subspecies (E. multiflora var. gigantea) and every seedling while technically being a new variety is also a Daiougoumi?
After all it literally translates as giant Goumi?
Couldn’t Chorus really be a seedling of their originally imported Daiougoumi?
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I tried a few times to graft Wang Bo, but no luck. Does anyone want to trade me some Wang Bo and Sunrise Ruby Cuttings? I have Catherine’s find to trade.