I wonder if this would work on dormant cuttings. Thinking of trying it on persimmon and mulberry.https://youtu.be/epZN6m-jxQ8?si=z3Jqx31ENvhnxELK
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The end of the video made me laugh. The guy call out the BS “wrap a banana around an apple core and grow 3’ apple tree with 75 apples on it” YouTube videos.
I have lots of CH fig cuttings, so I may give it a try with a couple. I think mulberry and fig would definitely work at least some of the time, provided the media isn’t too wet and they rot. They root so easily anyway.
I think somebody here was using etiolation to root…honeyberries, I think? I don’t remember if it was dormant cuttings or green wood.
I put some apple seeds in a glass jar in the fridge, a few years ago. Forgot about them until spring and went ahead and put the (dry) seeds into dirt. None sprouted… I left that pot alone and the following spring a bunch of them sprouted.
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I germinated a lot of apple seeds last year using the damp paper towel method. They sprouted too early and i had to keep them in the house so long that about half of them died ( i think from lack of sun) i have quite a few that are from crosses that i want to grow out but didnt want them to sprout too early so i didnt stratify them yet and they are a little dry. Iguess I will rinse them in diluted peroxide and soak them a couple of hours then stratify till they sprout. If that works ok if not I lost a year. Thank you for the reply.
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Will dried out trifoliate orange seeds germinate? Regular citrus’s viability drops off a cliff if they dry out I’m told. There’s like two dozen in the one fruit I’ve got, so maybe one or two would still be good if they follow normal citrus rules.
Was this successful for you this year?
Hey,
I have a dwarf seckel pear that needs its first pruning, this was it’s 2nd season in ground. I’ve never pruned a fruit tree before, I also don’t know rootstock but came from starkbros. Any suggestions on what to cut? Pics below, thanks !
Pruning is a lot of what kind of final structure you want (personal preference). If it were me I would cut all of the lower branches that deer will eventually destroy and let the rest grow some more.
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So ironically, no deer pressure. However, rabbits will maul the trees to the point you think they are beavers !
I don’t have a desired shape other than functional lol. Letting it just grow more is easy too. 
Yeah if you want it to bear fruit ASAP leave everything other than co-dominant leaders (which you don’t have) or branches that may rub together (you might have one or two?)
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Thanks. I’ll just check for rubbing branches and take those out if I see any that might rub.
Has anyone tried chip budding apricots on peach trees?
I’ve never done it, but peach is used as a rootstock pretty often for apricot, so it should work fine.
edit: Just don’t forget they’re on peach rootstock so borers may go after them if that’s a problem in your area.
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Not on peach, but this summer I put apricots on both European and American plum and they took.
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i have 3 different apricots and a canadian plum on my black ice plum… all are growing well. hoping for some fruit next summer. i got a very good crop of plums off of it last year. ill probably graft more apricots on my 4 siberian peaches next spring.
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This is all very encouraging. I’ve planted two apricot trees many moons ago, one at my old place and one at my current resident, and both died after four years. A disease or borers attacked the roots. I don’t have root issues with the peaches.
Question: when is it a good time to transplant a 5-6 foot high cherry tree I planted last year? Want to move it in the yard. Thought I read somewhere it’s while it is dormant overwinter. We have a warm snap right now so the ground may be soft enough, but then it’s going to hard freeze again later this week.
Id probably wait till after the hard freeze then. when you say hard freeze do you mean like sub 15 degrees or like sub 32? because if its just sub 32 thats fine, the ground wont freeze till its below 20 really. If you think its not going to drop below 20 again its definately ok, if you think it might for this freeze id just do it after to be safe. but itd probably be fine.
Best time for moving depends on the type of cherry tree. If it’s one of the hardy sour cherry trees, then any time it’s dormant should work. Sweet cherry trees in your area are probably more problematic at this time and should be delayed until extreme cold is unlikely. However, I’m not familiar with newer varieties of sweet cherries; I think some hardier varieties are now available and might tolerate the cold. Keep in mind that newly planted trees are less hardy than established ones.
sub 15.