While I’m not a pro, I wouldn’t plant anything in our 95+ heat wave we currently have. I’d wait until the fall or spring.
Better safe than a hunch of dead trees. I think the transplant stress coupled with our heat would be too much. Unless you were planning to baby them (shade cloth, tons of water etc)
Just my 2 cents
I’ve never been so happy that I planted new fruit trees with drip irrigation so I can get them through this first years heat.
First, I thought they would drown in early spring, now I’m worried about them roasting. I might try fall planting of the goumi’s though. Our season seems to just get longer every year so it may work out.
Do you know which variety you plan to do? Or going to do a mix?
Seems like I might be at the mercy of what is available. I know sweet scarlet is a small but tasty variety. I’d like to have that and another variety to encourage abundance. It would be nice if I could root cuttings now and plant them out in the fall, but finding them is a problem.
If you have trouble finding Tillamook/carmine. Check Whitman farms. It’s a 1 gal pot and nice sized plant. I think someone mentioned another place does plugs of it for rather cheap but I forget which nursery it was.
I planted that one earlier this year and plan on trying to get the “raintree select” one when they open their fall preorders.
Fruitwood nursey sells plugs.
I did that and wish I hadn’t. Goumi is super thorny, bushy and can grow tall. I put mine near persimmon and fig and in both cases the Goumi grew faster than the trees and make it a hassle to interact with them.
I haven’t noticed any thorns on mine. Do they get thornier as they mature?
Interesting. Burnt ridge says the opposite, that older are less thorny.
Mine are wicked and I worry about puncturing a tire or something.
Can you show pictures of the thorns? Are you possibly thinking of seaberry?
ive got red gem and sweet scarlet. never saw any thorns on them.
The blueberry rake. Still the absolute best tool for harvesting goumi’s
Thanks for the reminder, I should look for my rake.
Thank you, those are much better pictures of the wicked thorns.
Yes, they are nasty. It hurts if you bump into them. Autumn olives are the same way. Some shrubs have lots of thorns, some don’t have any, some are long, some are short, and anywhere in between.
I have a tillamook. It has no thorns.
Has anyone heard of Daiougoumi? I saw it in a youtube video about someone trialing goumi in Austria: Trialing Goumi Cultivars: Cherrific, Guthulska & Daiougoumi (youtube.com).
Just a follow up to this, I wonder if it is a hybrid with Elaeagnus latifolia as it looks very large relative to other goumi.
