They are class 1 invasive in Georgia.
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@GeorgiaGent In areas such as Georgia I can’t imagine how invasive they must be it’s perfect habitat for them! In West Texas, Wyoming, Nebraska, the Dakotas, Colorado and parts of Kansas etc. they barely cling to life at times.
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Your not alone @Derby42 and other people have experienced ill effects from thorns. I certainly have had my fair share of thorns to deal with . Seems what grows here has thorns
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I’ve seen tons of Russian olives, a related and distinctive plant with much thinner silvery leaves. Autumn olive has much wider leaves and they are only silvery on the underside of the leaves…
At least here in SE Mi.
Scott
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my seaberries had nasty thorns when they were younger. i pruned the tips as they came out. now theres barely any coming out further up.
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I’ve got a few plants with pretty wicked thorns. Che, Seaberry, poncirus, autumn olive to name a few.
I either pinch off the tips of the thorn when its new and soft or I will sometimes just clip off the tip as I’m otherwise pruning.
This works well, especially with poncirus (which is the plant I seem to be poked by most anyway)
Scott
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Will AO and goumi pollinate one another? Anyone know?
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got a huge cedar sliver under my middle nail while splitting kindling once. that thing felt like a hot poker under there! the oils from the wood irritated it further. finally, 4 days later i went to the dr. my nail never grew back right after they took it out. pain was so bad i wanted to cut my finger tip off!
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I may have a hybrid of the 2, it will fruit this year and I’ll be sure to post photos when it does.
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Was it a hybrid?
I have around 25 very large bushes over 20 feet tall. There are bushes with very yellow blooms and others with very white blooms as shown in the photo. The yellow are very good bushes and there are less of them. Grafting could be done so easily and this berry could be improved quickly in my opinion to get a much larger size and heavier production. I’m shocked just a few improved types have been made. Today is 4/27 So you can see how good these berries could be in a marginal area with late freezes. To bad they are an invasive in some places. These bushes were started in my problem areas where I could not grow other things. I planted them as goumi bushes but as we know that is not what they turned out to be. The now closed Lawyer nursery sent these out for an inexpensive price.
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My ‘Amber’ is by the front door and looks elegant. I keep it pruned to about five feet tall, so it doesn’t shade the Yuzu ichandrin behind it, and so it doesn’t dominate the front.
I know I sacrifice fruit production for ornamental value. I get a few handfuls of fruit most years.
I have photos, but Safari (or gremlins) won’t let me upload them. I’ll try another browser.
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Nope. Can’t upload photos to Growing Fruit. Tried drag & drop, and Upload icon. Both give me the error message that the file’s too big, must be <5000 KB, but it’s 177 KB.
How do you all do it?
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I think if you’re new you can’t? Have to wait a while or so I have heard.
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You can take a lower resolution photo or screen shot. At first not as much permission is given.
Big harvest is an under statement. You can see its easiest to harvest these by running your hand down the branch holding the bucket underneath. Used an old ice cream tub to harvest these berries it’s as easy an anything. Have lots of these bushes. These bushes are incredibly good for the soil, birds, small animals. Everyone who eats them always comments they feel really good afterwards. To bad there an invasive in so many places. I blew up a photo so you can clearly see the silver dots on the red fruits.
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Do know if they would do well in mostly shaded areas against wood lines? How sweet are they?
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The fruit grows in all varieties the problem is finding it. A friend decided he didn’t like it until he tried one bush I grow and he ate those in large quantities. The bushes all taste differently. The berries don’t ripen as fast in all shaded areas. Today is November 13th and some are still not ripe. 98% are ripe but those are not in heavy shade.
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What are they?
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