I’ll probably post pictures on Saturday as I’m very busy with work. Tomorrow I will be working from 5:55 am to probably 5:30 pm, so by the time I get off from work, it will be already dark.
If I get from work early, I will post a couple of pictures.
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My friend’s pluerries, Sugar Twist and Sweet Treat, will be arriving next Tuesday. I will ask him if he could post pictures of his trees here.
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Take good care of yourself , so you water more to their root and wait for a couple days to plant ? Mine UPS deliveried almost 5.45 pm. I get home at night. Planted all them really early next morning.
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Now you can get a good night’s sleep knowing your Suger Twist Pluerry is safe and sound.
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I picked one up at My Garden Nursery in Bellingham today.Probably one of the few places in Western Washington carrying the tree right now,if not the only one. Brady
Strapped down and ready to go
Planted
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I apologize for not posting pictures of my Sugar Twist Pluerry today as I had promised. I had to go work today. I’ll post some tomorrow.
My friend will also post pictures of his pluerry later on this month. His screen name is @Darthnectarine.
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When I get my Sugar Twist from Raintree , I am not very happy because it’s a whip, no branches. I did email ask My Garden nursery and knew they have Sugar Twist about $40, and finally I did not get one, because dont know what to do with the whip from Raintree. Do they still have some more Brady?
Did you chop the top off Brady? You have a lot of plant still in containers, will you inground them some day ?
I wouldn’t be too unhappy that it’s a whip. Half the time the branched trees they send are crap anyway. With a whip you can plant it, chop it to height and choose any choose your own scaffold distribution.
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I too like to have small trees. But I understand though as these trees can take years to fruit. I have learned to be patent with trees. I think you have to else you’ll go nuts. I have been trying to grow a Weeping Santa Rosa plum. It is now 5 years, 3rd tree, no fruit, and it’s about a foot tall now. So no fruit next year, it will be 2019 I may see my first fruit. It could easily be 2020 before I do though.
My first tree was planted in the fall, it didn’t make it the next spring. I had to wait till the following spring after that to replace it, and that one never leafed out either. The third one also died back to just above the root stock. So what do you call a tree that is not quite a whip yet? That is what I have now., I was worried it would die this winter being so small. It did not, it made it. Reminds me of an old song
In the year 2025 if my Weeping Santa Rosa is still alive?
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Vincent,
A whip is okay.I’d probably cut off the top about three feet above the ground and let the tree branch out.
There were about five left.I called ahead and had one put aside.I almost decided to get a different one when comparing,because mine had sections of bark missing,but that was above the branching that was being kept,so it didn’t matter.The one I chose had the thickest branches,but some others looked okay too.
Yes,I was on my bike,so if the top wasn’t cut,about four feet was going to hang out the back end.I was going to cut that much off anyway.That’s what I do when planting most stone fruit trees.
Someday,they probably will need to go in the ground. Brady
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Thank you so much Brady. I decided to keep mine. Too far to make the trip to My Garden nursery in Bellingham. Almost 80 miles each way from my house.
I could not find out any information about Sugar Twist growing habit. If you have any idea please post here. Thank you. I just see some of small branches grew out 90 degree angle so it might be spreading growth habit. I would like to know for preparing room of new plant.
That’s a great question. I’ll post this question on Dave Wilson Nursery facebook page.
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As soon as you get answer from them, let us know please. Thank you Ulises.
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Hi Vincent, the caliper of your whip is incredible. In one season you will have so many branches and it will fill out so much that you’ll be glad you got it that way.
You can either chop it now or simply let it grow for a full season and then next year cut it where you see great branching potential. I would wait personally against the norm because it’s not that tall now. It’s not going to matter though if you wait or decide to cut it this year and begin the scaffolding process.
Dax
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Thank you Dax.
I would wait for next year to trim it with the shape i like. If its growth rate like some Japanese plum, we need the trim a lot later. I am happy to have it. I still have a lot of plum trees on the 2nd leaves, some of them might flower or fruiting this year. Its very interesting and keep me busy all year long with my hobby.
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