In my experience, a large portion of Edible Landscaping’s offerings are tissue culture from AgriStarts.
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Whatever happened with your Jan’s Best and Worlds best?
not good for my location in WV (as i grow them..they get too much deer pressure and will jump fences or go way out of their way to destroy mulberries).
Chiang Mai 60 according to Hobby Fruit Growers is good to Z6B from several reports.. i got mine from this guy years ago but the deer destroyed them. Maybe someone else will chime in on them. (i think Jan Doolin is carrying them now).
Some think that Chiang Mai 60, WB and Australian Turkey aka Siam Jumbo are all the same… some think not… so im not sure myself.
I plan on putting some more inside a much taller fenced in orchard soon.. but as of now my mulbs are all deer magnets.
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I ordered Gerardi twice from Edible Landscaping at different times. The plants were tiny (3 - 4 inch tall). They grew very fast. The growth between internodes was about 3 - 5 inches, which I suspected they were not ture Gerardi.
I also ordered a Gerardi from burnt ridge nursery. Growth between internodes was about 1 inch, which I think it’s a true Gerardi. Unfortunately it’s dead in Spring 2025, because I relocated it in later nov 2024.
I have ordered one again from burnt ridge nursery, and one from www.treepeony.com for Spring 2026.
Pruned my Gerardi last week.
Training it low and wide.
Those first limbs are just above 4 ft… and deer browse them some. No serious damage just taking some low leaves.
TNHunter
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I grow all 3 and they are quite similar but each a bit different. For example, WB is the heaviest producer but the lightest in taste. I am surprised that CM60 can survive Z6B!
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Probably the winter a few years ago that was very mild. Blake says that they are identical then goes onto say similar to WB.. and I remember Bryce saying that WB grew at his parents home in Z6B in WV.
My guess is that once established and larger that there will be some winters that it fares well and some that there will be winter dieback.. but there are variations in Z6B as we have found a local Asian persimmon here.