Yes, I sprayed daconil early winter and again late winter/early spring and Indar mid summer. Also spray for PC.
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I used to grow āCastletonā from Raintree but @alan did not think it was Castleton because it was quite late like late Sept. It definitely was a prune plum. When ripened fully, it was good. I took it out last fall and planted 2 jujube there.
Just a few fruit that I got after work before it started to rain. Many Shinsui pears, 1 Hosui, 1 Intrepid, and a couple of Satsuma plums. I probably couldāve picked many more peaches, but I canāt eat so many all at once.
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How bout some veggiesā¦
Carrots upā¦ and some fall greens.
More okra, bush beans, greensā¦
TNHunter
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Wonderful! Iām jealous. This was a good graft year for pears for me but terrible for fruit.
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Iāve dried good Chojuro asian pears, and Iāve dried soft ripe Bosc. I liked the Chojuro until I tried the Bosc. No comparison. I never liked dried pears or apples a kid. Didnāt like the texture or flavor.
These Bosc were like chewy caramel texture and delicious. I think we peeled them, but donāt remember for certain.
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Interesting you said that. On a few of my grafts that have grown really tall, I took off some of the length. I thought they looked too vulnerable up there swaying in the breeze. Iād rather have a shorter branch than lose the whole graft. Is this a reasonable thing to do?
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Today tasted one of several White Lady peaches. Wonderful!!! Came in with a brix just over 20 and super sweet. Enjoyed the texture too. This peach tree was purchased from Bay Laurel in 2019 and I was excited to get any peaches this soon. Nice size fruit for a tree just over 3 feet. Hoping next years yield will be even better. Got a Babcock white peach tree from them the same year and it had one peach which was stolen away in the nightā¦
The Hale Haven had just dropped but too early. Needs more time.
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You did the right thing, my graft is not very healthy and spot is not that great too. If graft was growing vigorous then can make it short but it is severally damaged by cicadids cuts and afraid if not recovered will broke after setting fruit next year. My tree only on fourth leave and I put sixteen graft on it some last year and some two years ago and all took.
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Rejina, your white lady and Babcock scion grafts both were a take. Thanks for the swap! I canāt wait to taste few fruits
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A peach at over 20 brix sounds like eating candy. What a luxurious treat youāre growing!
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Thanks @PharmerDrewee! I had to test it a couple of times to make sure. It was undoubtedly the sweetest peach I have eaten in a long time.
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Iām really excited for you. They are both pretty highly rated and both had fruit within 2 years of planting.
I have been going over my grafts and making notes about the fruit. Iām so looking forward to future fruit on those grafts. I have maybe 20 grafts which took earlier in the season and now have turned brown. About 120 others were clearly successful. I removed all that were not going to make it, but Iām leaving the rest that had a successful ātugā test and appear to be callused. A few have some signs of life/color and may be coming around. I have a few scions were I got a lot of pieces or duplicates from several folks and grafted all of them. I think I went crazy. I probably have Ambrosia and Granny Smith on 6-8 trees. Same for pink pearl, pink delight, and harrow sweet.
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Despite continuously flowering for the last couple months, my Luma apiculata bush has only set two fruit! Hopefully Iāll get to at least taste one of them soon, though.
Iām trying some hand pollinating since the only pollinators Iāve seen visit the flowers are butterflies, and only rarely, despite my yard otherwise buzzing with tons of different species of bees, wasps and flies.
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These plums are not harvested from my tree. These pictures came today from my sister in Denmark and want to know which kind of plum is it. It is tart not too sweet. Any information welcome.
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These look sooo delicious!!
@murky not sure if it matters but did you slice the bosc vertically or horizontally and how thick before drying them? What drier did you use?
I have a small grafted Green Gage branch,that had a few fruit,but something took them,probably a squirrel.The thing is,there were much riper varieties of Plums,in the tree, that were left untouched.
Maybe some give off a scent that the animals are more attracted to.Iām not sure.