I just ordered 3 Sumo scions, I think that’s the minimum but with shipping cost, I might as well.
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I added or will add as soon as they arrive: Peaches: Cal Red, Romestar and Nectarine: Snowqueen
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It’s not. More like a smaller cheap chinese knockoff. My crisper is full of scion as well
I have not succeed in rooting the dormant IE, do you mind to share how did you do it?
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I did not. I don’t have one to self root. Burnt Ridge Nursery sells self rooted IE mulberry for 37 dollars.
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I saw that @dingdongsgarden listed it as 9% success, which is very low but nonzero at least! They give some info about their process at the link here:
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A member here shared rooting stone fruits method. I will try it this year. But I did similar method before and had never been successful.
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It looks like the dwarf ones are easy to root. Every year I get a lot of strong cuttings , it will be great they can be rooted, even low percentage. My current IE was airlayed.
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After work today… got my NovaMac on M7 planted. This was a graft i did last spring.
Looks like it may rain… may have to pause planting for a few days.
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Hey everyone. This year I added a Doctor desportes pear tree I bought from @Barkslip , which is already planted. I also have a seckle pear and harrow sweet pear coming from grandpa’s orchard. Excited about those.
I think I am going to try and move my aronia bush and put in some more raspberries, I think I will make an order with Nourse farm for Joan J raspberries, also some earlier strawberries and a new blueberry bush. My blueberries had a rough time last year with so little rain.
I was able to get three different kinds of figs, hopefully these work…
Here are the Celestial figs I started the same way and rooted in about two weeks.
I also started the seeds from coffee cake persimmons. I don’t know what pollinates them, but they’re coming on up!
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I almost ordered a Gold Nugget but today I found out I have it, I rescued it from another area in my garden. So glad I didn’t kill it.
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Gold Nugget really struggled compared to other citrus for me. I had a Cara Cara tree, Owari Satsuma and a Gold Nugget. The Cara Cara put out growth. The Owari Satsuma put out a bunch of growth but it was limp growth but the Gold Nugget just put out a lot of growth from the rootstock
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I’m in citrus land, come to think about it, it’s also fig land and jujube land too. I believe in growing fruits that are natural for your area.
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I keep finding more places for trees on our 1/4 acre lot, so NEW this year I’ll be planting a Chojuro pear on OHxF87, a White Gold Cherry on Krymsk 6, and a Liberty apple on M26 to replace a failed interstem project. I want to try UFO training on the cherry, but my wife is advocating it as a freestanding tree, so may try the KGB training instead.
I am planning to build some more robust raspberry trellises, with cement buried cedar 4x4s. Speaking of Joan-Js @growjimgrow I have a bunch of them and they make such huge berries that they love to droop all the way to the ground. So I’m planning to put more wires on the trellis to support those canes especially.
I also have ordered a number of scions to add to a frankentree i started last year. I’ll graft Korean Giant onto the Chojuro pear for a pollinator.
We are also getting runner ducks next month to try to help control bugs in the orchard, which I’m very excited about.
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I love the genetic dwarf nectarines/peaches, they are so cool. Have you grown them before? I may have to find a spot for another one.
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My 5 Joan J raspberry plants are in container, plus they are behind a persimmon tree, so hopefully the won’t flop too much.
It could just be a Boise Idaho problem. Big berries is a good problem to have though.
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I don’t have any genetic dwarf peaches/nectarines now but that will change in a month. I wanted to get them back in 2020 but they all were sold out by the time I could order. I debated getting them again last season but did not pull the trigger. I decided to pull the trigger and buy some this year. It will be nice because I will have 5-6 foot peach trees growing and Mirabelle plums that will only be 6-10 feet according to what I read.
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I bought some Gold Nugget at the store today to see what they taste like. Very thick skin the Sumo, but no neck.
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I have quite big grafting plans this spring. I have bought 30 M26 rootstocks and 13 standard apple seedling rootstocks, 1 cherry rootstock Alkavo and scions of the following varieties:
- Aeckerliapfel
- Annie Elizabeth
- Beffert Original
- Belpberger Renette
- Eierlederapfel
- Rambour de Flandre
- Blenheim
- Hildesheimer Goldrenette
- Weisse Kanadarenette
- Obenauf
- Portugiesische Lederrenette
- Damason rot
- Ruhm aus Kelsterbach
- Wealthy
- Gelbe Zwetschge Schmid (plum)
- Hauszwetschge Rudin (plum)
- Baschimeiri (cherry)
The scions I bought are very big, I think I can get at least 3 to 4 grafts out of each scion. The plums I plan to graft on a rootsucker of a felled tree.
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