Kishu mandarin graft
Clementine mandarin graft
Sunflower pawpaw in ground a few months
Mango pawpaw also a couple months
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Honey jar Jujube first year in ground and fruiting
Had to plant the dragonfruit in the greenhouse this spring because it was too big to move out, and heavy.
Barbie Pink guava with at least 100 fruits. My most productive tree, great tasting fruit. I plan to plant this soon, and build a small structure around it to wrap it during the winter days it needs it. I will not be able to routinely move it much longer.
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Do you like that structure design for the dragonfruit? How tall is it? I have like 15-25 dragonfruits rooted out in a 5 gallon bucket that I gotta plant. My original one is like 30 feet tall on a tree, so I’m trying to think of better ways to trellis them.
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Yeah it works great, if I knew I was going to plant it I would have made it taller. This is about 4 feet tall above ground. I think 5ft above ground would be a bit better. Hopefully next year they will start blooming. I have too many rooted cuttings to give away or sell haha. Now I’ve given up pruning it for the year I think. I’ll prune in fall to fit stuff beside it.
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Mine fruited for the first time last year… 25 feet up. I had to get on a ladder and knock it down with a 10ft pole. Broke one, one was rotted, but I managed to get 2 off. Very very mild, but beautiful pink fruit with white inside. This year it’ll probably bloom like crazy but I have no way of getting to the top of the palm to harvest them.
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keep piling on those wood chips. you’ll get there. you think of trying those water holding crystals? id think digging in some around your root zones would help a lot to retain moisture. i use some in my raised beds. also burying semi rotten logs/ branches in the bottoms of your raised beds, then some manure, before adding soil will help retain water as well.
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An Elberta peach was the first fruit tree I planted as well! I loved them. Big, sweet and very juicy! Yours look great!
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How cool. I know how much work goes into that. Keep going and do something everyday. Pretty soon you’ll be amazed and then decide that it’s enough.
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I agree minus the “that’s enough ” because I’ve said that several times thus far and it hasn’t stopped me adding trees haha
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Barbie Pink Guava in ground. Gonna build a small scaffold around it to wrap it in the winter. It just got too large to keep moving around in and out of a greenhouse, I think it will be fine with minimal protection, like a water barrel and some frost cloth
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Bananas, strawberries, cassava, tree spinach and cranberry hibiscus really growing well this year, hope next year I can get some fruit at least from the Kokopo
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Those passionfruit vines look happy! What variety?
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The one on the left is a Pinkpop and the right is a “Marjorie Sherwin” tetraploid. Also on the right growing there is a potted banana passionfruit but it has yet to flower I believe, it’s a bit of a jungle to find which vine is it, however I haven’t noticed a different bloom yet.
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They’re sure looking good whatever you’re doing.
I tried to grow pinkpop this year but its shoots never made it an inch above ground before dieing.
I’m also trying Frederick and the maypop from Peaceful Heritage Nursery this year. I know Frederick probably isn’t hardy in my zone so I planted it in a special little microclimate. Still need to set up a trellis, but it’s in a spot that still gets later afternoon and evening sun while getting protected under a thick tan oak and douglas fur. Behind it you see two 2500 gal water tanks and a garden shed to the side. The hope is to wrap it around the tanks to shade them and keep my water cool, and the water will keep the plant from getting too cool.
For Blake’s Hardy Passionfruit, we bought the bulk 100 seed pack and tried 50. Germination was too good and we’ve had plants coming out of our ears. Now all our friends will have passionfruit of their own so we won’t be able to pawn off our extra fruit.
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Mine struggled last year but mostly due to gulf fritillary caterpillars and lack of water. This year I added irrigation to everything and water at least an hour a day. (Shallow well)
My soil is hydrophobic and just beach sand so it drains far too fast to not water every day. Same with my Avocados they will wilt every day in the summer without morning and afternoon water. But now they also look fantastic
Poncho and Lila
Also use similar plan with a barrel of water and the chicken manure makes them happy too
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What wonderful work! I’m trying to do the same near Knoxville, TN. Your photos are very encouraging, as I’m using the cardboard-wood chips method also.
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I wish I never put any landscaping fabric, but I’ve now almost ripped it all out from under the wood chips. Cardboard is the way to go 
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