Confess: what have you ordered for spring 26?

Figs sigh I wanted one and ordered 6, then apparently that was not enough so I ordered a few cuttings and have 3 more.

I am doing them in pots so I guess I am OK with more work. Somehow when sitting on the couch with a hot coffee on a snowy day I forget what work goes into caring for fruit in pots. LOL.:joy:

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Apples:
Astrid
Milo Gibson
Red Cinnamon
Red Devil
Sops of Wine
Butterball
Chestnut Crab
Clark’s Crabapple
Ed’s Crazy Crab
Turning Point Crab

Sweet Cherry:
Benson

Sour Cherry:
Balantar

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4 lovel peach rootstalk seedlings

took scions of Rio Oso Gem to graft to a frost peach

will be buying 2 or 3 more peaches, one of them as a gift. Baby Crawford and Kawea if I can find them.

giant Korean pear

giant Asian/European hybrid pear

need another blueberry and some different red raspberries

Got 30 unknown fig cuttings from a friend. Supposedly the best tasting in the broader neighborhood. Got them at the wrong time of year so still in the fridge.

Discovered an old apple and an old pear on my new property that were completely covered by overgrowth and will be sort of carving them out of that.

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We are cutting back again this year.

Seeds in stratification: American Holly, Blue Beech, Viburnum edule, Goji, American Beech, Sloe Plum, Illinoian Pecan, Black walnut, Korean Nut Pine, Shagbark Hickory.

Trees in garden beds that need transplanted: Hybrid Plum seedlings, “Wild” peach seedlings, Flowering Quince, Sloe, Korean Nut Pine, White Pine, European Pear seedlings, Northern Red Oak.

Confession of directly ordered plants:

Raintree: Ivan’s Belle and Beauty Hybrids, Vera Pride and Paval Silvervine.

Burnt Ridge: 2 Wynoochee Early Apples, 3 Red Alders, Salmon and Thimble Berries.

Fruitwood Nusurey; Kalinka and Ukraine Highbush Cranberry rooted cuttings, Tanechka flower quince rooted cuttings, Marron Medlar Scion, Ashworth and Hershey Honey Locust scions, 2-American Beech seedlings.

39th Parallel: Apricot and Butterball Apple Scions, Turnbull Pear.

Really Good Plants Scions: Sorbus Domestic Burbank A and B, Red Sun Hawthorn, Some type of in house Goumi.

That’s most of it. :wink:

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congratulations :slightly_smiling_face:

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I forgot to add 12 Manchurian Apricot Seedlings from Bob Purvis. I had a nice long talk with him. He is very knowledgeable about apricots and very helpful and friendly.

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Thank you! I have 2 seedling S. domestica for rootstock that got established last year.

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If you are happy with what you got, please share which Etsy shopt you bought from. :slight_smile:

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They are from different places but I’ll be happy to list them. Everything looked good, some things have sprouted, others not yet.
Mushroom plant (Rungia klossii) from Companion Plants came in great shape. They are both happily growing in the greenhouse. Taste mushroomy, more so than the white eggplants.
Lsu Groundnut from RootsandRhizomes. Either this or the Crispy Snacks have sprouted (back in the bad habit of not labeling).
Crispy Snack Mouse Bean from Interwoven Farm.
Oca, Yacon and sunchokes are all from FourOaks. I ordered from them last year (yacon, sunchokes and walking onions) but only the onions sprouted. I assumed it was my fault, so I ordered again. Yacon has already sprouted and I think the sunchokes had roots coming out the bottom of the pot.
My native blueberry and plum seeds are from ChillHillFarms. I ordered the blueberries from him before, but did an honestly disgraceful job stratifying them because I was lazy. They do a really good job on their presentation though, my first order came with a little neat resealable box and both times they have sent extra seeds that I didn’t order. I’ll do a better job this time (maybe tonight or tomorrow since I cant do much in the garden).
If you didn’t have to play 20 questions and write a novel on Etsy to leave a review, they would all get 5 stars.

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Too many, probably, for our small family of 3 to eat or me to keep up with… but I keep telling myself as hobbies go it’s a relatively affordable and healthy one :woman_shrugging:

Peaches: carored, red haven, o’Henry, and contender

Plums: Santa Rosa (my hometown, so obligatory), au rubrum, Byron gold, satsuma

Pears: Ayers, Bartlett, Korean giant, and hosui

Apples: Yates, jonagold, Arkansas black, Fuji, yellow delicious

Blackberries: PAF, ponca, vans, navajo

Figs: black mission, Italian honey, Chicago hardy, VdB

3 elderberry varieties, 6 Nanking cherry, afganski pomegranate, and Rich’s dwarf quince. These are more intended for ornamental value and the added bonus of potential fruit.

Plus seeds for about a dozen native perennial wildflowers that I’m hoping I can grow into a bunch of plugs to establish in a dilapidated one acre meadow area that is mostly weeds and goldenrod atm.

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Maple valley (scions only)

Pear - Karl’s favorite

Apple - Burgundy, Pink sparkle, Bloody ploughman

Plum - Green gage victory

Ordered from Fruitwood (scions)

Elder: Emerald lace rooted cutting, Purple lace, Black tower, Guincho purple rooted cutting

Apple: Waltana, Katherine

Peach: Indian free, Navarro Indian, Dixon cling, Oregon curl free, New Zealand black

Plum: Green Reine Claude, Godfrey ranch gold, Stanley

Quince: Aromatnya, Pineapple

Gurneys: Oh yes black muscadine, Dwarf coffee tree, Viking seed potatoes

Trees of Antiquity: Golden transparent plum, Eden apple, Pineapple quince, Red lake currant, Munger black raspberry, Hinnomaki gooseberry

Stark Bros:Honey jar jujube, Golden muscat grape, Red lake currant, Limelight hydrangeas

Heirloom roses: Parfuma Madam Anisette, Parfuma earth angel, Lyda rose

That’s so much more than I thought I’d ordered. And there are a whole lot of Skillcult apple seeds.

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This could be considered to be a dangerous thread for people who are easily influenced and/or have a plant obsession. :joy:

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Ordered a couple cuttings each of 6 fig varieties:

  • Black Madeira KK
  • Campaniere
  • Sal’s Gene
  • RDB
  • Kadota
  • Florea

From Bay Laurel:

  • Snacktime Donut Nectarine
  • Candy Heart Pluerry
  • Emerald Beaut Plum
  • Flavor King Pluot
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4x M.27 (to make some apple bushes that’ll probably immediately die of FB or be eaten by rabbits or something.)

4x Krymsk 86 (interested to see how it does compared to using peach seedling rootstock, hoping it doesn’t get borers, but it probably does)

Ooharenbeni Asian Pear scion (have Bet rootstock that grew last year for it)

Rojo Brillante Asian Persimmon scion (have two DV rootstocks I grew from seed last year)

Flavor King scion (I’ve tried to graft it like twice now with scion from different sources, going to put it on a K86 since it’s reputedly wimpy.)

Emerald Beaut scion (I’d like a late Asian plum and like these when I find decent ones at the store. …Is it vigorous?)

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I ordered 50 G214 from Copenhagen and 30 scions from Hocking Hills. I also cut some scions from existing trees here, and have a couple spare rootstocks from last year. I got 3 loquat and 2 quince from OGW, a couple raspberries along with seeds from Territorial, and some evergreens from Burnt Ridge for a reforestation project. It is really dry here so far this spring so I promised myself no more unless we get about 10”of rain soon (but not all at once, which happened last March). When it’s this dry I keep everything in pots now, having suffered too many losses in previous years before I knew enough to plant some trees in fall.

I have a little bridge to build, and maybe another chicken tractor, 3 trees that need bridge grafting due to trunk damage, 6 or 7 trees that need grafting an additional (same tree) branch to even out the growth, a bunch of in ground plants to move somewhere else, goat hooves to trim, a shed wall to build, a more-than full time job, and family, including family visiting in May, so I’ve got ENOUGH to do. I just need to remember this! (Snaps a rubber band on my wrist!)

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What do you think of black ice? I previously had it on my want list but I couldn’t find it and I’m just wondering if you’ve got to try any fruits and if so, what did you think of them?

I think that burnt ridge has black ice scions for sale

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I have actually never had it. I am getting it in a trade from @yellowcreekdan

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I love black ice. Vigorous grower and delicious.

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Tasty.

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