My potted trees are inefficiently watered by several elevated sprinklers 15’ circular ones placed about 4 feet off the ground.
It works well though for now. But berry brambles have exploded in the area.
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Don’t be so sure birds can’t clean out 200 trees or bushes a year. They are very good at it. They spend their entire lives refining their skills!
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I’m not too worried. I have methods to protect as much as i need. I’m okay with sharing as well 
plus my dogs should be able to scare off most critters.
Im starting to enjoy it. Im growing all of my tomatoes in them now… just easier for me. Im getting most of the buckets for free so i think after i use them im going to probably just put something like strawberries or something in them. Maybe make some strawberry trees.
I read a story about a man that is growing 1000 things in 5 gallon buckets… so i dont want to be like him but i think there is a place for them here.
Some people grow fruit trees in buckets… i doubt i will do it… but maybe someday.
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5 gallon seems too small except for annuals
if you have the time to water them, more power to you. im lazy in that aspect and my plants suffer for it. esp. in the middle of the summer. need to water a min. of 2xs a day. times that by 100 buckets. that’s alot of watering. in ground i rarely have to water here due to my clay soil and thick mulch. even my nursey bed has at least 5in. of mulch on it at all times.
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hmm… maybe so maybe not. I learned a trick from one of my online friends to go fairly heavy on pine bark as it retains water. He sent me some bluebs that were grown in almost pure pinebark…roots were excellent and wrapped around the bark and thru it. Im also using it for my tip rooting and some other things like my raspberry raised rows… something about it really works… at least for me. I also have plenty of optisorb/DE at my shop but i dont think i will need it. I did a test run this past year during one of the worst droughts and heat that i can remember… and my tomatoes did amazing with once a week watering in my pinebark concoction. Maybe i will fail… but i dont think so. YMMV.
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Does a sprouted peach tree produce a genetic copy of the tree the fruit came from?
Unlike an apple tree for instance, where you’d most likely get a copy of the grafting stock.
How about automatic watering systems with you filling up a reservoir once a week or so?
That’s what I’ve been doing and what i plan to do. Here’s what i use:
I have a few but this is the only one still in stock that I’ve bought.
Basically i drill a hole into the lid of a 5 gallon lowes bucket and poke the waterline through. I water once every 3 days at 10 minutes a day for about 15 heads. It’s automatic which is nice. However, I’m going to find something else to use as a reservoir this year since I have a lot more than I did last year and the year before. I’ve been eyeing my storage totes 
Some places on the new property are over 150 ft from the home so 
very expensive and long hose and a few hundred ft water line leads I go…
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i used about 3in. of hardwood mulch in all of my pots. but i didnt use solid pots. i used the heavy fabric ones so that probably didn’t help.
They have a better chance to be a clone/similar to the parent tree, but not guaranteed to be exactly the same.
My 2025 Preorders are as follows:
U of S Bush Cherry from Honeyberry USA:
Sweet Thing
Cornus Mas from Cricket Hill Nursery:
Aliosha
Black Plum
Yugo Sweet
Heartnuts from Grimo Nursery:
Grimo 75
Grimo 99
Pears from 39th Parallel:
Korean Giant on OHxF333
Honey Asian on OHxF333
Ayers on Provence Quince
I’m going to try and get a raintree select Goumi and some more pawpaws from peaceful heritage nursery sometime during the year. maybe 2 more mulberries as well.
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Received Cabrillo strawberries today… looking forward to these.
Adding Summit Red Rasp before it disappears from the trade. Similar to Heritage but darker red which i prefer.
Wickson and Duarte plums and Morton Nectarine before they disappear from the trade.
Finally got my hands on a Schmidt’s Bigarreau Sweet Cherry which was once sold by Stark.
Going to grow Aker’s WV tomato this coming year not sure where i will get seed yet.
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Peach is much closer to breeding true than most fruits. Its still going to be based off of the grafted scion because thats what’s blooming.
Having multiplesnof nearly identical trees will help cross pollinate. More variation usualy leads to better pollination, and production, but decreases chance of seeds being exactly same as either parent.
An apple tree is not only not going to breed true to the seed which is based on the scion wood used.
Good heavens, @Melon! Do you have an army at your disposal to plant all that? I’m so jealous!!
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Goodness! What is the world coming to? I’d get a whole pack of dogs under those conditions!
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I am going to transplant two persimmon trees this winter… JT02 and H118… from my current home site to our new home orchard.
I plan to graft two more persimmon varieties onto my wild dv rootstock this comming spring… Dar Sofiyivky and Saijo. That should be the last of my persimmon adds.
I am going to graft one or two more mulberry varieties onto BRNs russian mulberry rootstock and plant them in my new orchard.
Gerardi and a nice Red lookalike that has large plump delicious berries.
I am going to graft over my small royal medlar with Nottingham/Marron.
To my 2 new (2 year) apples in my new orchard… will be adding grafts of pristene, chestnut, trailman.
To my 3 new (2 year) pear trees in my new orchard… will be adding grafts of Bell, Warren, Karls Fav, Potomac.
I will be rooting figs… RdB and Chicago Hardy… to get those established in my new orchard.
I have an air layer of carmine goumi that I will get planted in my new orchard soon.
I will be grafting a few scions of AU cherry plum to my AU rosa and shiro trees.
Think that is about it.
TNHunter
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My JT02 still has hanging fruit but they are pretty mushy at this point. I have tried them at several different points after frosts and deep freezes… skin has been astringent but less and less each month.
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I am trying hard to not order ANYTHING. So far I have only reordered the Lucy Glo apple that was canceled on me this last spring. You reach a point of saturation, then get too old to keep up with it all. But new stuff still “happens” from time to time in the orchard. Good thing the nursery prices are high to help discourage overdoing it.
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Tried to keep it small myself.
1 Lucy gem apple tree
1 spice Z nectaplum
1 Avalon pride peach
2 different tea camillias
Still thinking about a grape vine…
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