I assume just pick up? I’m picking up because only getting 2 trees and they have a 5 min for shipping. If there’s a tree you want still in stock and you can place the order before tomorrow, I can get it for you.
Interestingly, I just learned they grow their trees in DE and PA is just a warehouse. So much for a nursery tour.
I picked my trees up from ACN several years ago. There is not much to look at. I just picked up the trees from the receptionist behind a counter. Boyer Nursey is in the area. Up toward Lancaster there is White Oak Nursery. That is an Amish business, which always makes things more interesting.
@scottfsmith Question: I’ve got woodpeckers doing a real number on my persimmon trees. Do you think the cheap netting wrap would work on them? They seem to really love asian persimmon and one is almost destroyed.
That’s odd, the woodpeckers here never bothered any fruit trees other than dead wood on them. The bird netting wrap on the trunks should work I would guess. The neighbor across the street had them pecking his wood shingles and one of those big eye balloons worked for them.
Ive not seen woodpeckers eat anything that didnt already have bugs in them. Or if theyre sap suckers they dont do real damage since theyre careful to not girdle the tree
I expect they are yellow-bellied sapsuckers? They’ll make their “wells” all over a tree. I see them on a lot of pawpaws down near the potomac and they’ve really torn up my neighbors holly tree trunks. They seem to find a favorite and really work on it. Regular woodpeckers go after dead wood usually, but sapsuckers use life trees to feed on a mix of the sap and all the bugs that get caught in it.
If it is sapsuckers I do think the cheap netting would keep them away, since they need to keep coming back to the tree and that would annoy them I think.
Sapsuckers tend to like large maples and such
Sorta weird to go after a persimmon tree
I had sapsuckers put a zillion holes in an apple tree (but they really only like this ONE apple tree which is right next to a persimmon tree). I worried about it but then nothing happened and it’s three years later. Maybe I’ll worry this year? However, I had piliated woodpeckers destroy two pine trees about 20 feet from the apple tree. It was really fast. I didn’t know that was possible till I saw it.
I have a pileated woodpecker family in one of my dying tulip poplars
They are impressive. If you have infested wood they will jackhammer it.. it’s fun to watch
Happy weekend
If they only go after the one, perhaps let them and have it be the sacrificial tree to protect the rest? If that’s a thing?
On mine persimmon are just the worst damage. They are hitting peach, walnut, and others. The orchard is not new and they only started after the trees got big.
You sold me. I bought some Jewel and Earliglo as well as a few other things.
Are we thinking it is too late for pruning and I should wait for the summer? My orchard has been in the ground for about 12 months, and sadly I did not get around to it this past winter. So many young trees that need it, but definitely do not want to do more harm than good.
On a totally other random note, ll my pears (second picture) are growing super vertically. Potomac, Shenandoah, Kiefer.
Those trees are still totally dormant which is a fine time to prune. So would a few weeks from now if you can’t get around to it soon.
FYI Maryland: Gaithersburg Costco had some boxes of 2 pack bareroot fruit. Unfortunately, nothing I wanted. The raspeberry was Latham (hefty canes) and the blueberries were really nice, but I have them: SHB box of O’Neal and Legacy and NHB box of blue crop and Patriot. Most interesting was a bag of bareroot trillium and good-priced worm castings.
I need to hit up Costco. But that parking lot is so ugh !
