Opposite here. I love sweetness. Sweet, salty and spicy for me in terms of foods. I always question taste test reviews. Many times it is from people that own nurseries or are sponsored/sent product from nursery. Weird Explorer on YouTube has so many taste testing of fruit because he is sent fruit from places like Wanderlust Nursery Miami Fruit. Restoring Eden does fruit tastings for their plants on the nursery side of things. If you are being sent fruit/trees or are selling fruit/trees you are not going to be wise to badmouth the fruit.
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Everyone has a hobby, right?
Glad to hear your Japanese Golden survived the Red Delicious, doing better than I was after my encounter with a Red delicious.
What happened to you?
I admit red delicious are not particularly tasty but they sure are large beautiful apples. I remember the very first apple on that tree. I was so excited that it was ripe. What a beauty! But the taste? Disappointing at best. Downright bland actually.
Let the grafting begin.
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Interesting how the leaf and stem structure is so different between a Japanese and mirabelle plum.
PS my 3-in-1 hole bare root trees are waking up nicely, though staggered in timing.
Parfume de September leafed our first.
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Circumstances and Nature always rule, I think. I planted two 3/8” diameter pawpaw seedlings of unknown heritage (I suspect from the same parent) about 10 inches apart in the 24” wide dirt strip in the utility access side of my house (SF peninsula) about 12” from the fence. As and understory tree, I figured that would be no problem. I’ve seen how pawpaw thickets grow in the wild and at the UC Berkeley Botanical Garden, and crowding isn’t an issue. To assure sufficient genetic diversity, I also grafted a Mango and Rebecca’s Gold scion on the second year in the ground, keeping some original branches for diversity. I figured any help in pollination to be good. First fruit were small, few at year 3 after grafting but I’ve gotten 20-ish fruit year 4 and 5, including from the rootstock. The tree is 6 feet tall now. Wonderful fruit.
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Awesome, I transplanted a lot of pawpaw suckers, no fruit yet and a lot died in the lasts spring frost this year, I might have 10 left, maybe more will bounce back. We’ll see.
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Nice growth from all 3 trees. The best sun exposure tree, Purple Gage, has the longest shoots. I was told it was the least vigorous so it got the best sun spot, well at least once they are bigger trees. At the moment they all get the same sun.
It’s also evident that the two mirabelle heritage trees have different leaves than the Gage. The mirabelle leaves are smooth edged and wider while the Gage is serrated and thinner…at least at this stage.
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I came here to get this forum’s take on multiple trees in a single hole after hearing Orin Martin from UC Santa Cruz say “I actually kinda like it better” when referring to planting multiple trees versus grafting (source at 1:31:04 https://youtu.be/qHhtBRhyiSQ). So there’s at least one experienced orchardist that promotes the technique for backyard orchards. I don’t know how much experience he has with the technique though and I believe he does engage with Dave Wilson some
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I have 2 persimmons in one hole. Kasandra and Nakitas gift.
2 jplums… about 3.5 ft apart…
Had 2 EU Plums planted 3 ft apart… for several years… one of them got black knot a couple years… then died the next spring just as it was leafing out. Mt Royal remains.
TNHunter
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