Hi Katy,
It’s so good to find someone from around here!
Question for you: do you grow non astringent Asian persimmons such as Jiro or Fuyu? Do they experience damage with our temperature swings? Did they survive the snowmaggedon of 2021?
Thank you and happy new year,
Pedro
Some of mine did and some didn’t. The astringent persimmons were more likely to survive and the non astringent ones didn’t. However I had a couple that did make it through. One was Fuyu, another was Chinebuli. I have heard on this forum but I cannot tell you from whom, is that Fuyu and Chinebuli are the same. I’m not sure about that. The other non astringent that survived was Tam Kam. It is a very large fruited and precocious variety. Saying all that each of them had some damage from the weather and two of the four Tam Kam trees finally succumbed even though it took them a while to do it. They were all fairly young trees in 2021.
I’ve started another topic called East Texas Growing where we can compare notes.
Hi Anthony, do you trade or sell dormant cuttings of your contorted mulberry? I’m trying them here in Richmond BC for the first time.
there was an old apple orchard used to be a homestead . it had 29 trees of different types the coos and the mackintash where to of them the king gravenstien was another i got cuttings about 6 or 7 yrs ago from these trees here in oregon and grew them up from that these trees where OLD the truncks where about 4 ft round the branches 2 ft round so i had to wait for some new growth i rooten them and got cuttings from all 24 trees . glad i did now last yr the fires took out the old homestead that was in an old abandoned gold mining area is coos bay oregon 20 feet from my family graveyard . but was given to the state in 1920 . im wondering is there a way i can get the apples tested for what they are ? im pretty sure i know 3 types but there is one that looks so burgundy red it is almost black but sweet . id like to know its name .
Hi all, new here. I’m Jay, live in southern piedmont NC. I got a strawberry plant from a local nursery when I was a child, and since then I’ve been hooked.
For many years I lived in small apartments and tried patio gardening, aquaponics, and herbs with varying levels of low success. Bought my house in 2020 and have been working on my garden and home orchard ever since.
My first trees I planted were apples from a big box store. I hadn’t done a lot of research and didn’t know much. Planted them all way too deep and pruned very poorly. They died various deaths. Then I bought a satsuma tree and did a lot of research about zone pushing, which led me down all kinds of fruit growing rabbit holes.
I now have the satsuma and a peach that has produced, a plum I’m expecting to fruit this year, 5 apples (I have a problem), two paw paws, a fig, a couple feijoas, and a rootstock that outlived its apricot graft that I’m trying to turn into a fruit cocktail tree.
I’m still relatively new to all this, but really love it and hope to provide a lifetime of food for my family!
i forgot to add the Empire apple YUMMY
Hello everyone,
New here, thanks for accepting me, I am in France in zone 8a, I am interested in fruit trees in general. I have been experimenting with all sorts of fruit species in my area for a number of years, with of course failures but also great successes. I would like to participate in the mine of information that is this forum.
Welcome from a fellow fruit enthusiast in NC! Glad to hear you’ve learned from past failures (haven’t we all) and are still at it.
Yes! Whenever people compliment me on my green thumb, I always tell them I have killed a lot of plants to get it.
A good grower is just someone who doesn’t give up!
ok i think ive posted some here thinking i was replying . Hey all I’m tammy . an army brat and lived in more country’s then i have states. 2-3 yrs at a time when i was younger. my dad taught me since we are here why not learn culture and enjoy it a bit. so i did . i found out in panama if i didn’t want extra proteins in my food i should eat Mre’s " military Ration envelope foods " cucarachas everywhere . but i did try snake and other weird meats even chocolate covered crickets and ants. so my love of fruit and gardening started there . in 1997 i got shot in the head 30-06 loaded for elk and a hollow point. after my induced Acoma and rehab i bought a house since i lost my 80 acre ranch. due to taxes not being paid while i was in Acoma . i joined bananas.org and citrus.org to learn how to grow Citrus and bananas here in oregon . i got to meet some amazing people . Joe, stan , George, jorge and emily. i went threw so many bananas with no success until joe and stan gave me the info i needed bob send me a HUGE banana pup in trade for my first successful flowering plumeria i grow from a cutting . i didnt realize at the time that my little plant wasnt even close to what his big plant was worth but i still have it and it was my first banana i got to live here TC cultures do now do well. so i only order pups. now i have so many tropicals trees . i love it i even bought some seeds and now have a 14 ft King palm and a 12 ft queen palm in my front yard from those seeds . ive never been a person who can just relax . i either have to learn something or be doing something since my dad and i where just use until i was 5 and he met my step mom . RIP to her she just passed with in the last yr i was there . but now i have time again and found this site . i am going to need a bigger yard so im looking for 25-40 acres so i can garden 5 acres and a 5 acre orchard then a few green houses so i can do my tropicals.
well said
Hi all,
I’ve been lurking here for about six years, but finally decided to officially join the forum today. I grow and forage a variety of fruits, nuts, herbs and mushrooms in southeastern Nova Scotia. In 2017 I started a vegetable garden which included about three cherry tomatoes, a marble sized melon, and some dismal beans, which kept having their tops cut off by what I thought was a mysterious insect (it was deer). For some reason I decided that experiment was a total success and the next spring I planted two sweet cherries, haskaps, lingonberries, hops, three grape vines, several figs, a mulberry, and a pomegranate. I live on a suburban plot so there’s not much space—maybe 1000 sq ft—and a lot of shade, but since then, I’ve added hazelnuts, blueberries, pawpaws, a loganberry, a peach, two apples, two kiwis, and various other small fruit bushes and herbs, as well as wine cap mushrooms and shiitake logs. Looking forward to being active on the forum!
Liam
It sounds like the 2017 inoculation took and blossomed into full blown disease…… Welcome!
Hi, I’ve become a crazy plant person on a tiny lot in 7b maryland - first with veg gardens and native perennials (I’ve become a walking native encyclopedia and try to help friends, family and even my kids school add or redesign with natives), then berries and melons, and this winter I’ve taken an insanely deep dive into fruit trees. I have made countless mistakes since starting vegetable gardens 7 years ago, and I spend countless evening hours reading, planning and replanning and still find myself moving plants around multiple times. I don’t know anyone growing fruit, and everyone is both baffled by and sick of listening to me talking about plants! The threads here have been so helpful as I try to prepare not to kill the small army of fruit trees arriving in the next two weeks! It’s just been a relief to realize I’m not alone in my obsession and to have access to everyone’s generous knowledge.
Hi this looks like the right place to introduce myself. I’ve been doing a lot of research and planning over the last couple years and keep coming to this site through Google searches. There’s always a lot of good information in threads about varieties specific to my area and people’s experiences with them. I thought it was time to join on the discussion myself since I’m starting in earnest this year with planting a lot of stuff. Namely about 40 cane berries a mix of raspberry blackberry and hybrids, some grapes, a number of fruit trees, and a large annual flower and vegetable garden. It feels pretty ambitious but if I don’t just go for it I’ll end up procrastinating and in a few years I’ll be looking back knowing I could’ve had some established plants. If stuff needs to be moved or torn out later so be it! One of my favorite professors told me better is the enemy of good enough
Yep! Welcome from a fellow middle Tennessean.
Welcome. Love the famous TN irises!
Hello! I’m a not-very-good hobby gardener, daughter of a green handed farming mother. I live in the piedmont of NC - hot humid summers and wild swings in the winter. I was married on a beautiful summer’s day in February, but had my birthday party cancelled 3 years running on the day after my anniversary. I’ve got lots of questions about stonefruit… see you all on the threads pertaining to them in rhe very near future.
Hi All! Browsed the forum many times as I’ve purchased fruit trees over the lasts several years for my small neighborhood lot.
Every area with sufficient sun to grow something is precious space, and forum posts here have helped guide me towards finding the best trees I could. I’ve leaned a lot but so much more to learn.
I’m 7a, which seems to be one of those transition zones where it seems a lot can grow if you put in the effort, but snap weather can frequently freeze the buds off resulting in a greatly reduced harvest. Opportunities always come with challenges.
Big thank you to Scott for making this place!