Just got a couple of Tillamook Goumi Berry plants from Whitman Farms, and I’m wondering if anyone knows the fruiting habit. I have very limited space so I prune very carefully to maximize production. Do they fruit on the same wood year to year? Only 1 year old wood, 2 year?
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They will produce minimal fruit on their own you need a second cultivar. Fruiting habit. if the branch gets sunlight it fruits.
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I got 2 Tillamook goumis from Whitman farms last July. a bunch of us did at the same time documented here and here. they fruit on 2nd year wood I know that for sure. and while some say fruiting is minimal without a different cultivar to pollinate, you still get a decent crop. Minimal is relative to other goumi plants.
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I’ll try to snap some pictures when I get back home but I only have one goumi in the garden, ‘Carmine’ from Burnt Ridge Nursery, and it fruits very abundantly. I’ve never seen another goumi in the neighborhood and I’m positive all the neighbors surrounding my house have no goumi bushes.
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Goumi are very easy to graft…
I have red gem sweet scarlet and 3 grafts of carmine.
The grafts I added last spring are fruiting nicely this year. Some of them grew mult branches 4-5 ft last year.
You could buy one variety and get it established and graft on others for better pollination.
I will have scion late winter.
Perhaps a trade ?
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Goumi are not for shady areas. If they dont get something like 6 hours sun… they dont develop buds… no buds, no blossoms, no fruit.
I have had 2 varieties since 2020 red gem sweet scarlet… added 3 grafts of carmine last spring.
Red gem is my first to bloom and fruit.
Example below of fruit set.
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It’s been awhile and I forgot to post the pictures of my ‘Carmine’ goumi but here is an example of a young ‘Carmine’ fruiting capabilities with no other varieties around. The branches bend quite a bit due to the heavy fruit load so I’d say it’s pretty self fertile and produces plenty of fruit for my family and I to eat and process each season, even at a young age.
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