Pacific Northwest Fruit & Nut Growers

I found this one
http://www.multnomahmastergardeners.org/incredible-edibles

I have candy heart 2nd leaf this year that has a light fruit set, hopefully I get to try it. I think this was an easy year for pollination but itā€™s promising. it flowers about a week late compared to other japanese plums which is also a good sign

I should add it has the most ridiculous straight-up growth habit of any of my japanese plums. I tried branch bending but it just ripped so Iā€™m letting it go, itā€™s in a hedge anyway so itā€™s ok

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Thank you for information Michael. Your areas maybe better than mine. Too wet for Candy heart early bloom habit. I got rid of mine but would like to try to plant it again. Letā€™s us know how the its fruits taste. Thank you @z0r .

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Unfortunately itā€™s in Oregon
I live in Western Washington near Seattle.

@abqspeachless I got a chance to post a bunch of pictures for the dwarf crabapple tree today. Hereā€™s a link (I figured it would be best to start a dedicated thread to follow its evaluation). I was able to get a fair number of these root grafted this year so I will bury their grafts and get the clones growing own-root.

I feel like an oddball in eastern WA! we are dry zone 6 where I am, none of the coastal plants will grow

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Welcome to the forum, Anji! Youā€™re not the only eastern WA/high desert member on here. E.g., @SpokanePeach, but many others too. What kind of fruit are you growing, or interested in growing?

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I do figs and olives in a hoophouse, Meyer lemon indoors. then we have plum, raspberry, white mulberry and gooseberries outside! I put in northern pawpawā€™s and two dwarf apple trees last year, and would really like to try to push the zone. we have a pretty warm dry microclimate in the back.

I do a veggie garden too and native plants out in front of our place

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I lost virtually all of my asian pear blossoms to pseudomonas/blossom blast this year. I sprayed lime sulfur but not diligently (I had it out for peaches and the pears/apples got the extra). does anyone have a spray program that they like for this? I have a bag of kocide 3000 so I can do copper next year I guess

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Welcome Anji!

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Me too. Last year was the first I sprayed copper and also the first I got more than 2 Hosui. Also it was pretty dry spring.

This year, Asian Pear set looks terrible

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thanks yeah Iā€™ll try copper next year. the PNW guide has timing for champ (copper) as ā€œbefore fall rains and again before spring growth startsā€. last year I did copper as a dormant spray only and had a full crop.

this is a letdown, the pears were SO good last year and I know this tree is going to grow too much without a fruit load and itā€™s already the right size

I tried posting this in a pear disease thread, but got no traction ā€¦ Iā€™m in Seattle, so I figured while youā€™re talking pears and copper, it might fit in:

I have two pear trees; a bartlett and a bosch. I put them in last year and they both developed rust. My apples did not.

I was advised to spray copper on them before bud break this spring (I think thatā€™s the term) but I never got around to it (ski season). Now the leaves are fully developed. Since Iā€™ve missed the window for application during budding, Iā€™m not sure what I should do.

I read this missouri botanical garden article. I just walked around my house looking at neighboring trees, and I believe there is a red cedar on my neighborā€™s property. Based on my reading, it seems like I should be on the lookout for galls on the red cedar and if they appear then that would be the time to spray copper. It seems like people are reporting that copper isnā€™t as effective as other treatments, but I donā€™t want to get into the more professional-grade chemicals, at least not this year.

Iā€™m totally new to disease management ā€¦ I went from having one plum tree and one fig tree that never had any diseases, to plums, figs, apples, cherries, grapes, blueberries, and raspberries ā€¦ all last summer.

My questions are: do I have any of this completely wrong? Is there anything I should be doing now? Any other suggestions or comments?

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32 degrees here this A.M. at a sensor 7 feet above ground. If it had been an official reading, it would have blown away the latest PDX late freeze record by 11 days.

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it was 48Ā°F at 2am last night, itā€™s 45 now at 10pm. Spokane. I guess not micro climate is warmer than I thought, we had a freeze warning?

Does anyone have a favorite pawpaw variety that will grow in the Willamette Valley? Make that your two favorite varieties since you need two for pollination. Hopefully you donā€™t need to hand pollinate those. Iā€™d like to get some for my momā€™s place.

We didnā€™t get anywhere near that cold.

My low was 40Ā° that morning, so a little chilly but nowhere near frost territory:

Then I claim to be in a nano-climate here. Zone 9n.

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I anyone is interested in Figs and Grapes; I have a lot more than I can handle in my backyard.
Lots on 1 gallon size and some 2 gallon size.
Port Orchard near Daveā€™s Cafe.

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