I am so excited!!! Just got my second batch of pomegranate trees. This order came from ‘Peaceful Valley / Grow Organic’. They are really nice looking plants. Good sized ‘trunks’ - and good height. Nicely branched. They are supposed to be 2 years old - and they look it. Ambrosia, Wonderful, Parfianka and Eversweet.
Waiting on 2 more orders. One from Just Fruits and Exotics and one from Edible Landscaping.
I don’t think they will arrive until end of March - beginning of April. Can’t wait!
(Feel like a kid! Fun.)
Anyone else having orders coming in?
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My Peaceful Valley order came in 3-4 weeks ago. Just now got around to potting up three of them today: Flavor Supreme, Flavor King, and Emerald Beaut plums and pluots. They’re the ones in the brown fabric pots above. That order also included a Lapins cherry and Bavay’s Greengage plum, which I potted up at my dad’s.
I’m also still waiting on an order from Cummins, which won’t come until March,
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Had a white Pakistan and red Pakistan mulberry arrive just recently. Prime Ark Freedom blackberries should be arriving next week. I’m hoping 5 of the things will be enough!
I’m still debating on whether or not to order another tree or two. I’d like a Seckel pear(I’m growing Tennosui and Meadows) and I need something I can grow near the back of my house, a foot or two away from the foundation.
This was the first time I’ve ordered trees dormant and berries. The rest of my stuff I’ve picked up in late fall/early spring with leaves. It’s not comforting seeing just these large sticks arrive in boxes. I’m just hoping all of this stuff is still alive!
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I know what you mean! They all look so DEAD! But, I’ve done it before and I’ve never had one not leaf out and come to life! So, Take Heart! And, oh . . . . ordering more trees? Go For It! We only go around once. (At least that’s what they tell me.)
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Brittany, where do you live? My instructions said to leave the trees in their packing pots, and store them ‘as is’ until I can plant them, in the spring. Mine were potted, tho. Are yours bare root? Are you going to grow them in the pots? What did you use for the soil? (That’s a lot of soil!)
I’ve watched that ‘Grow Organic woman in the videos’ (who smiles a lot) planting trees in those big fabric pots, intending to leave them there. Then she says that they will be good for 3 years, when she intends to repot them. I cannot imagine how big those next pots will be! 
And cannot believe anyone can grow a fruit tree in one of those pots successfully! Seems like a strong wind would come along and knock them all over!
But I guess it must work.
Yes, they’re bare root. I’m in the Dallas, TX metro area (zone 8a) and now is as good a time as any to pot fruit trees. If they leaf out a bit early, I’ll just move them to the south side of the house to protect them. (That’s their eventual destination anyway–I moved them next to the fence to make sure they weren’t staying too warm, so they could go dormant and get plenty of chill.) Long term, I don’t own the house I’m living in and don’t know when I might move somewhere I could plant in-ground, so it’s all pots for the foreseeable future.
I’m no expert, but I would guess she’ll need to repot them because the fabric pot will be breaking down, not because the roots will require something larger. 20 gallons, especially in breathable pots like these which are supposed to promote lots of dense root growth, are plenty big enough to grow a tree in. And with soil in it (especially wet) the bases are a lot heavier than you might expect. Thank goodness for my roommate’s dolly!
the PA freedoms are very vigorous ! give them a season and you will have more shoots than you can deal with!
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I have grown (and still do!) stone fruit in pots for several years here in Dallas. They have done well for me. It has been a bit erratic getting good size out of some of them sometime but for the most part fruit set has been good. I must confess and with a bit of sadness that my urban farm project has taken a lot of my time and interest that I used to give to fruit trees even up to a couple of years ago. I am still big into citrus and hopefully figs this year. Are all your trees new? Cool that you are in Dallas. I didn’t remember that.
Drew
No, my oldest trees (not pictured) will go into their fourth leaf this year, and I’ve bought a few more every year since I got those. I got my first peaches last year, just four of them, and hopefully I will get some more peaches and a few apricots this year. Fingers crossed.
And I forgot to answer @PomGranny’s question about soil … I buy potting mix, the Sta Green stuff from Lowes. I noticed it has larger particulates and visible shreds of bark so I’m hoping it won’t be as heavy and dense as other potting mixes. (I’m too lazy to mix up my own potting mix.)
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On Friday, I received three trees from Arboreum — Stanwick nectarine, Reine des Mirabelles and Reine Claude d’Oullins E. plums. Planted them in the ground the same day. Great roots on two of the trees and ok on one. Arboreum do their own delivery in the SF Bay area, so no root chopping to fit a tree into a box for shipping. Last couple of years (especially two years ago) my peeve with Arboreum was that tree arrived late in the planting season, but this year they delivered quite early. Probably it’s related to summer-like weather that we’re experiencing here in California.
Each year I buy less and less trees, and buy more rootstocks to make my own trees. I also grow seedlings and root figs and pomegranates. Last year, I rooted 27 pomegranate trees. Was not sure what to do with so many trees but then a project came up that made them useful. On the back of my property we have a large pit, into which the rainwater from the entire property drains. With last year being abnormally rainy, the soil started to gradually slip into the pit. To reinforce the slope, we decided to plant pomegranates along the perimeter of the pit, so all these plants came in handy. Pomegranates, even though they are not large plants, have very strong and extensive root systems, so they should work well against erosion.
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That’s what I used(sometimes green bag, sometimes the blue bag with water retention stuff) for my figs until they went into the ground last year. Worked great and held water well enough for watering every 2 days in the hottest part of summer. It’s good stuff.
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Did u plant in grow bags? If so , what size? And how the heck do you move them when you need to . . . A hand truck? I’d like to try that with one or two of the more fragile fruit trees. The ones where I’m a bit ‘out of my zone’.
It would be cool to make a draining pot on casters, somehow.
My pots were 15 gallons or smaller. I lifted and moved them myself.