Confess: what have you ordered for spring 26?

General Fruit Growing
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For trees and vines, I ordered
Oullins plum
Empress plum
Nadia plum

Honey jar jujube
Razzmatazz
Oh my
Oh yes
And lots of rootstock

For scion, I ordered/traded wayyy too many for never having grafted before :grimacing::face_with_spiral_eyes: Im determined to try and follow all the tips Ive been looking up in this group though.

Plums/pluots
Howard Miracle
Bavays Green gage
Schoolhouse
Mirabelle de Metz
Dapple Dandy
Flavor Grenade
Flavor Supreme
Flavor King
Splash
Tulare Giant
Inca
Golden Nectar
Grade Prize plum
Sweet Treat Pluerry
Persikova
Coes Golden Drop
Medova
Kirhizka excellent
Ochakivska yellow (euro type)
Candy heart pluerry
Yellow egg
Vampire
Jefferson
Waneta
Green gage
Elephant heart
Satsuma
Golden Transparent gage

Apricot
Black Alexander
Tlor Ciran

Peach/Nectarine
Raspberry Red
indian free
Black boy
DPRU 377

Pear
winter nelis
summer blood birne

Persimmon
Nikitas gift
Makaewa Jiro
Weber
H-120
dar sofievka
Barbaras blush
Tam kam
Chinebuli
Pamyati cherniaeva
Dar Sofiyevki #2

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I will be sure to do that.

I have a general planting area planned in which they will not receive much sunlight until halfway through spring. I am hoping that alongside piling slough hay/snow will delay the flowering period. However, we can easily get a frost up until the first week of June, so we shall see.

I planted a couple manchurian apricot there last year in order to establish some future pollinators/potential rootstock.

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Ok… thought I was done… but recently remembered I wanted to try some Evie 2 everbearing strawberries this year.

I ordered a 25 pack from Burpee yesterday.

1 Oh Yes muscadine

1 Razzmatazz

3 Anne golden raspberries

3 Caroline red raspberries

25 Evie 2 strawberries

That should be it for orders..

Adding one more persimmon by graft.. Smiths best / Giboshi. Traded for the scion.

Adding lots of bocking 14 comfrey.. traded for…. And a few more crab apples.

TNHunter

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Please report how Evie-2 do come late summer/early fall fruiting. It’s on my list to replace Albion that rotted in the late summer heat.

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@Eme.. others in TN have reported that they do well here (In a post last year). They get lots of good reviews from Burpee customers.. even in Arizona heat. I hope they do well here.

If mine are big and stout by fall… I may let them set some fall fruit.

I normally pull all blossoms and runners the first year but in the case of these newer everbearing varieties.. If they grow well.. big and stout.. by summers end.. I may let one runner root and a few blossoms to produce fruit.

Some talk like they don’t send out many runners… but others say they sent out plenty.

We will see what they do here… and I will post the results.

TNHunter

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Thinking about ordering more Clark’s Crab to graft on P.18 just for the hunting crowd here.

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Thanks! I like to collect things, especially if they are unique. I am also in the trial phase still too, Central Florida is a little bit of a headache to find things to grow consistently well every year.

Those pots are a really good price, cheaper than where I was getting from and doesn’t have to be in bulk. Thanks for the link!

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Two pecan, two wild plum, and two highbush blueberry

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3 highbush blueberry and 3 seedless muscadines, and hopefully some scions from exchanges with other members.

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Doing better than previous years so far. My list is very light this year. Ripping out some raspberries I don’t care for and replacing with some more espalier apples.

Espalier apples - discovery, Spitzenburg (I realized I received the wrong variety from my original tree this past fall), lamb abbey, Lucy rose, suntan.

Other apples-

Paradiso sparkling, Lucy gem

One plum-

obilinaja

My big project this spring will be grafting to the majority of my current apples (around 40 or so varieties from hocking hills and Fedco).

I said I wouldn’t grow so many tomato varieties this year but I messed up on that and am on track for about 40 varieties again. Oh well-it’s a lot of time with trellising but I do like the variety in summer. Going big on carrots this year (10 varieties or so). Just used up the rest of my harvest from last year so those are good storage crop for us.

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Lol!…Fiesta apple tree….Grows like a Clematis!……must resist urge to acquire yet another strange growing apple tree.

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Very nice collection of plums! :heart:

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We bought some inexpensive fingerling potatoes from Van Zyverden, Inc. thatdid really well here.

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Every year I think that this will be the last year we’ll spend a whole bunch of money on plants, but every year it’s still bad. The new thing I did was that I wrote down WHERE each thing I ordered would actually go, and I didn’t order it if I didn’t have a place for it.

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Added a few more to our orders for this spring…. Sheesh, now we need more pots….

Fruit

(20)Boyne Raspberry

(20)Heritage Raspberry

(10)Arapaho Blackberry

(5)Tophat Blueberry

Non-fruit

(5)Sunday Lilac

(5)Nadhezhda Lilac

(5)Charles Joy Lilac

(10)Beauty of Moscow Lilac

(10)Sensation Lilac

(10)President Grevy Lilac

(10)Kathrine Havemeyer Lilac

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Laughed at “Flavor Granade” :rofl:

Might have to pick that one up at some point just for the name :sweat_smile:

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@GemStateRanch

Flavor Grenade is worthy of its name.

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Tried really hard to be restrained this year as I’ve not got loads of space overall between a tiny yard and quarter plot allotment :smiling_face_with_tear:

Really impressed with the g202 roots.

Apples

From Marcher apple network:

Scions

Golden Harvey

Bringewood pippin

From East England apples and orchards:

Hubbard’s pearmain mm106

Nolan pippin mm106

Keepers nursery arrived jan26:

Primrose pippin g202

Hamids red pippin g202

Young America crab m9

Karmijn de sonnaville m9

Black limbertwig M26 arrived Nov 25

eBay Johndayl

2x m27 ashmead’s kernel

Arrived Dec 25 but fulfilled by Chris bowers don’t trust as advertised, keep in pots until fruited

Amelia’s apples

20 x g213

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In recent years I have waited to mention what scions are on the way. Too many times I have been all excited about planned or just-made grafts, only to find them knocked askew and dead, or sloppy work on my part and dead, or weather that challenges them until dead. You said, “confess…” In no particular order:

Blue Pearmain, Adams Pearmain, Duchess of Oldenburg, Benoni, Yellow Bellflower.

Derek Mills included Braddick Nonpareil in the lot he sent, which brings the possibility of another high-flavored apple to this region.

When the heirloom bug had me in its grip, I looked at Adams, until realizing it had poor working pollen. At that time I still wanted only 3 apple trees. Anything that acted like a triploid would restrict my options, so chose Claygate instead, which is triploid and better known. Claygate is the first apple I have tasted that compares well to Karmijn de Sonnaville: flavor that grabs you by the tonsils. KdS doesn’t do well in such dry and hot conditions as dominate my summers, so finding Claygate makes great fruit is a Godsend. (I have seen a grown man wince when biting into Claygate.)

While I forgot Adams, orangepippin.com had Adams tested, to learn it is diploid. Odd, since its female parts are resistant to frost and seem highly fertile, while the pollen is terribly weak. The stronger flavor it can produce interests me, so I hope to get it living on top one of my trees and on at least one other stock. to plant elsewhere.

Duchess of Oldenburg? Well, all anecdotes I have encountered to verify Nutting Bumpus as a seedling of D/O indicate they are genetically identical. That, to this layman’s mind, suggests NB is a bud sport, at best. So, with the range of temperatures in this area, If I can get D/O growing and producing, it will be much like NB in whatever conditions in New England made someone wonder if it differed from D/O. Good enough.

Perhaps I still have a case of heirloom lust, since Yellow Bellflower/Bellefleur dates to the first half of the 1700s and Blue Pearmain to the second half of that century. Benoni, targeting a young family I know that just might appreciate such an apple, is roughly 200 years in cultivation.

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I’m a newbie ordering my first of these types of plants in Zone 4b. If you see something that isn’t a good starter choice, please let me know:

  • 3 Persimmons: Prairie Sun A-33 (very early season, Garretson x Golden Supreme), Prairie Star H-118 (early season, George x Yates), Meader (early-mid season, Garretson x Early Golden). Still contemplating Geneva Long and Prok d/t their New York breeding, but I don’t have a supplier confirmed yet.
  • 5 Chestnut: Precoce Migoule grafted and seedling (early season), Bisalta #3 grafted and seedling (mid), Belle Epine layered clone (mid-late).
  • 2 Plums: 1 Toka plum on Mustang rootstock, 1 Waneta plum on Mustang rootstock.
  • 4 Goumi: 2 Carmine = Tillamook, 1 Red Gem, 1 Sunrise Ruby Korean.
  • 2 Cornelian Dogwood: Yellow and Coral Blaze.
  • 1 Marron™ Medlar.
  • 2 Shagbark Hickory: Neilson seedling, Yoder seedling.

Landscaping:

  • 20 Balsam Fir.
  • 10 native wild Common Elderberry, which I eventually have to grow unprotected.
  • Tray of 32 native prairie plant plugs.
  • 2 mixed native prairie flower seed packets = 2000 sq ft.
  • Bush bean seeds, to try as “green manure”.

Still considering:

  • Several wild Silver Buffaloberry.
  • Northsky or native lowbush Blueberry.
  • Comfrey bocking 14.
  • Various native prairie indigo plants, as nitrogen fixers inedible by mammals (rabbit, woodchuck, deer).
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