You may have someone relatively close that grows some of the same things you do. @ncdabbler.
Welcome to the forum!
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Hello. Iām in CAs Central Valley (9b) and mainly growing apples, plums/Pluots and mini nectarines in pots. I am interested in propagating my own rootstock and of course multi grafting my trees.
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Wowā¦ I am amazed. I did not think one could grow pecans in Germany.
Why do you think so ? In the Rhine river valley from down, Freiburg, you have the climate zone of 8b -9a. In Mannheim/9a, grapes are ripe in end of July. 9a goes up to Cologne -Kƶln. We have the advantage of the warm Golf Stream along the coast of France. If you go swimming there, you will be pushed very quickly to the north. My weather station shows now 12Ā°C in the morning.
But as Pecan trees are not so much wellknown here in D, there is a big space for devellopment; also for Paw-Paws, Creamnuttrees, Pimpernuttreesā¦ Regards GĆ¼nter
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Hey John, Iām moving to Holly Springs end of the month and will start planting. Iāve similarly tried to pick disease-resistant varieties since Iād rather spend my time pruning than spraying. Hope to learn from your experience as you post on here!
I still want to know what that isā¦
My guess is a translation issue for butternut?
that was my guess. but the pimpernut is a pretty far out fringey species, so I wasnāt sure
Congrats and welcome to the area! Iām closer towards the Durham side of Falls Lake and coming up on my second year here, but did a lot at my previous place close by for years. Feel free to shoot me a message if anything youād like to discuss!
I googled them and they are wild, also known as monkey pot nuts. From south America, these crazy melon shaped things with a bunch of nuts inside
I doubt anyone in Germany would be able to grow that tropical species, so I stand by my assumption that it was meant to be butternut or some other Juglans species.
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Ok so I back translated and you were right with the translation error. it looks like it might be Xanthoceras sorbifolium, a Chinese shrub/tree that has nuts for oil pressing or fresh eating, the leaves are also edible apparently pretty great plant by the looks of it
aka yellowhorn. thats a good guess
I have to be a bad gal again. This thread is very long as it is. Please keep this thread for introduction.
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It`s Xanthoceras sorbifolium. Geman name: Yellow horn. Characteristic: 3-4 m high, Grows/year 15 cm,flowers in 5-6, white-- red flowers, Nuts 4-6 cm, green leaves, autumn yellƶw, can bear hard winter.
Good evening folks. Google has brought me here enough that I figured I should participate. Iām in the southwestern Houston, TX metro area (zone 9b). I got into figs last year (you will see me on OurFigs under the same username) and my interests have broadened to include stone fruits. My wife has some citrus and a couple olive trees as well.
I also love native plants and the Chickasaw plum thread here really captured my attention. Iāve got a couple seedlings that I sourced from a local vendor, and would love to create an improved variety of my own someday. For now Iām just going to settle for getting my grafts right, haha!
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Hello all. Iāve been lurking here long enough that I figured I should say hi. A couple of years ago, I moved out from the suburbs to central Kentucky (zone 6). Now I have a small but ever-expanding orchard and a big garden. Iāve already learned so much by reading and hoping to keep learning more. Thanks everyone for sharing your knowledge.
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Hi everyone, Iāve already introduced myself a while back but since then Iāve had to move house several times. Iāve now settled down at a new place and over the past year I have accumulated some small fruit trees (I even brought some over with me in potsā¦ Which have now been planted in the ground), so I thought Iād introduce myself again 
I am from the Johannesburg area in South Africa and by no means any expert, but Iām trying to learn as i go along. Thought Iād become active on an established forum like this one to share my experiences, but also to learn and seek knowledge and advice.
My current list of fruit trees:
Papershell Almond
Wonderful pomegranate
Cherry Lapins
Anna apple
Swellengrebel Peach
Valencia Orange
Meyer lemon
Black Mulberry (grown from seed)
Weeping mulberry (grown from seed)
Clemencott
Early mollar pomegranate
Dwarf Pinkerton Avocado
Alphonso Mango (small tree I bought today)
Black Genoa fig
Dalmatie Fig
Cherry Guava
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Hi Everyone !
My name is Quentin, a french nursery man based in South of France.
So my english is a bit rusty however i will try to get back to it.
At the moment in the orchads we have some old french varietieās of plum, peach (tolerante to the peach blister), pears & apple (summer, autum and winter), cherry and various small bushfruits.
This year i wanna focus into loquats, carobs, honeylocust et prickly pear !!!
Oh ! I loveeeeeeeee pomegranate ! Hell yeah ! non-astringent, sweet and juicy pomegranate !!!
Happy to be here !!!
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Hi Quentin,
Welcome to the forum. We have several forum members who own fruit tree nurseries.
We welcome them all and ask that nursery owners contribute their knowledge to help others in the forum. They should not plan to be here to advertise their businesses for free.
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