I was shut out of a number of trees to buy. They were sold out early. Looks like you have to order in the Winter to get them in Spring.
I’m looking at:
Flavor Delight aprium
Cresthaven peach
William’s Pride apple
Harglow apricot
Kerr crab apple
Puget Gold apricot
poss Black Oxford apple
And am thinking about adding about 8 or 9 potted figs. But I will have to see how my current crop of potted figs does before adding any more. I’ve got 27 potted figs right now. When it is fig shuffle time, it is a pain. (But at least I get some exercise.)
I think we will try for mango and sapodilla again next year. I’ve killed a few of each already but will plan better for this next year. Clay soil has been a bit tricky for me to work with.
Well the wife bought Elderberry and Pakistani Mulberry. I got a peach colored Japanese Quince and a Peruvian Apple Cactus.
Other then more apples. 2027 will be mostly quinces for me. Flowering and fruiting. Apples will be mostly Limbertwigs and Georgia origin types. Plus re-orders of graft failures. A few summer apples.
i currently am pretty satisfied with trees. Ihave a small list of fig trees im still interested in that i will probably try and get cuttings for:
Allix, Ondata, eve’s black cherry, sweet and sour cherry, Faja de Ovelha, Spadafora Dark Unk, Jolly Rancher, Genovese Nero AF, Cherry Sorbet, cherrango, Shasta Cherry, Blanche de deux Saison, Saint Rita, dwarf gold, Rogil, Watermelon rush, Wuhan, Tia Penya, Vincenzo
Otherwise i am hoping to get my replacement apricot trees before that from gurneys. or maybe they will still leaf out. Same with my persimmon tree from cricket hill…. though less sure on that one.
I already ordered some new honeyberries
I will graft some apples etc, but no new trees. Id also like to graft an “improved” american plum on my american plum. I’m going to get a new citrus tree i think… otherwise idk. just focusing on maintaining what i got.
I have plenty of young newly grafted seedlings but I think I’m also going to try to transplant some of my already fruiting trees. Certainly will be easier to just buy new trees. But even if I lose half my trees, may as well try.
I will mainly focus on trying to get some more scions of stone fruit hybrids (pluots/apriums/etc) and diospyros (which I have already the root suckers planted to graft next spring) - have already a list to look for.
I ll add also:
2 avocados (hass/reed/fuerte/bacon)
1 or 2 pawpaw
1 or 2 jujubes
probably 2/3 morus sp. (maybe geraldi and some other semi-dwarf)
1 or 2 sapotes
2/3 crabapples for birds/ to eat them fresh and for polinization
some berries bushes if I can find them
grapes (if I have the time)
and some more grafting if I find the varieties I had read about (red pears, leaf curl resistant peaches, nashis, some apples, let’s see how it goes.
We have heavy clay soil. They love water, but not as much as they get. We started using an auger to drill down about 5 feet, back fill with sand and then plant. A really good success rate with this last batch of trees. So probably a caliche layer issue.
Thinking about adding a quince and maybe a medlar next year — both feel underrated for a small orchard. Also want to try a couple more fig varieties in pots since my current ones have done well. The problem is always space.
But my persimmon seedlings will be near the age where I can graft them. So I’ll probably start researching -15F or colder hardy cultivars.
My girdled apple regrafts have not gone well although the pears have. Not quite sure what happened there unless the apples lose viability quicker. I’ll probably get scion of the few I really want to replace and grow in the field.
Other than that I may reel it in a bit. I prefer the no spray route so things that are a headache will just be pulled and forgotten with time. The stone fruit and grapes will probably be the first on that list. More priority will go toward the persimmons and hardy kiwis. Pawpaws are my #1, but I may start growing out my own seedlings for fruit and not worry about every named cultivar out there.
I’m hoping to get at least one medlar tree and a few apple trees (undecided what cultivars to get as of yet (suggestions welcome)).
I should be getting a false serviceberry tree or possibly just seeds (despite the false part of the name the fruits are edible just like serviceberries)
I’m hoping there’ll be someone that will let me take or buy a mature wild american mountain ash growing on their property within a few hours drive of me (so probably somewhere in the Appalachian mountains around the Shenandoah valley region), but I have anxiety talking to people about that sort of thing out if the blue so I’m not too hopeful and also wouldn’t who to even ask.
I’m planning on growing a bunch of things from seed, blueberries, serviceberries (various kinds), black chokeberries, hawthorns, mountain ashes, wild crab apple (Peraphyllum, not Malus), and maybe others if I can obtain their seeds. Although some of those might be planted this year too
i think ill be dialing back adding more and focusing getting what i have to peak production and health. every year i tell myself no more but still wind up adding. its to the point where just maintaining what i have takes up most of my extra time to do other things. i havent even taken out the boat yet and we’re almost in June.
not exactly same hole but going to plant my 12 honey locusts i just got within a foot of the doz. siberian pea shrubs i put in up at the orchard. hopefully the N. captured by the pea shrub will help the h. locusts.
Next year I hope to graft more disease resistant apples and crabapples for my buddy’s deer hunting property. If my stool bed of callery pear works, I will use those as rootstock so they will tolerate the wet swampy area’s.
Also want to graft a bunch of Burgundy Blush apple (a tasty wild apple that I found) to give away to friends and family. I plan on using B-118 rootstock with a B-9 interstem. It will be my first time using an interstem.
I’ve been thinking about this already and driving myself crazy to fill space I don’t need to fill right away! I think for next year, I want to focus on my niche of propagation and help my friends and family build their orchards and build a community of folks who like to grow their own produce. I’m kind of at the wait stage for peak production, but my harvests are pretty spread out between stone fruit, berries, apples, etc. and not forgetting annual vegetables. I’m learning to dos and not to dos this year and next, but one thing I’ve learned is when the fruit tree bug bites you, you get addicted easily!
I have 16 trees in the ground right now, all apples except for one peach tree. Next year I am planning a big expansion!
I would like to finish my row of tall spindle apple trees, which I started this year. I would be getting the following:
Goldrush x1
Crimson crisp x3
Crimson topaz x2
Sundance x2
Still focused on disease resistant trees!
I also would like to add Clark’s Crab and William’s Pride to my semi dwarf block of trees. If I am able, a couple of Asian pears as well: Drippin Honey and Olympic.
On top of that, I am planning on adding two rows of red raspberries (Prelude and Caroline), a raised strawberry bed (AC Wendy and Jewel), and hopefully a small cut flower patch (sunflowers and zinnias)!
I would be surprised if I am able to do ALL of that, but as @djlew said, when the fruit bug bites it gets very addicting!
