My trees are all blooming now I’m starting to graft on my peaches today too.
Indian Free plus five grafts.
Juliet tart cherry
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You are a solid week ahead of me. I’ve only got about a dozen blooms on my TriLite peach plum. Last year i had none. Still better then nothing, but it doesn’t like my climate. I’d remove it but its a nice shade tree where i have it growing. It also doesn’t seem to get much winter kill–
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I’m curious about TriLite, you are probably too cold. I have the nectaplum and it does well here. Bloom times vary here depending on the year. A fairly typical year here. Around May first is usual although it can be from April first to May 15th.
Coldest temp was -17F or about there. So lost maybe 90% to 95% of the blooms (it was full of flower buds, but the majority just fall off–never swell)> It might be ok in a climate of -10F or warmer.
I also have a Raspberry Red—big tree/mature…zero blooms. Good spot in my yard too–horrible for my climate. I hate to woodchip it though, so maybe i’ll bud it onto some of these pluots to save it. I also left out another peach (maybe spice zee) that has a few blooms and that is potted (small tree).
Another exciting development is i cut my Lapins sweet cherry down, but left the stump…its pushing growth–that would be Gisela 5?. So if somehow i can get cuttings going.
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Probably. I have Utah Giant firm cherry if you wanna try next year. The sweetest cherry I ever had. I want a whole tree. I only have a couple of grafts. When my tree goes I’m putting one of these in. It cracks easily, but cherries heal well and don’t rot. Just look ugly. I have an Emperor Francis graft too that flowered for the first time this year. Curious about it.
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This Milo Gibson apple and tamarack were transplanted last fall, they’re both just starting to wake up.
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Most of them are 3 years old (from large bare root stock). The Hollywood was grafted onto a prunus Americana just last year.
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This might be better as a new thread, but does anyone know if there’s a list somewhere of the Hansen hybrid plums that have been released? I’ve done some searching online and haven’t been able to find much in one spot and have gone down somewhat of a rabbit hole.
I planted one of my container pluots in the ground.
Thinking about putting in another pond just because i have another liner sitting there. just a small deep on. I should just put ponds in all over.
Did you look on books.google.com and just use some keywords? you can find older publications on there. Some of those old plums are probably hard to come by.
Cool thanks! I hadn’t used that search engine before. Much easier than filtering through all the usually garbage on Google.
Speaking of SEG (Search Engine Garbage), you might try http://search.brave.com, which is the host side of a hardened browser for Windows, IOS, and Android. Tip: You don’t need their browser. I, myself, use the TOR super-hardened browser through the TOR network to avoid surveillance, but the Brave search engine somehow does seem to bubble the most interesting links to the top of the results pages.
If you use Firefox (or a derivative like the TOR Browser), you can make Brave a selectible search-engine option by adding the “Brave Search” browser extension. You can take the extra step to make Brave your default search engine. Then whatever you type in the address bar that doesn’t look like a URL is handled by Brave.
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Looked last night and i have about 25 tri lite peach plum blooms and 4 Raspberry Red blooms (i thought i had none). So maybe there is a chance to get some fruit this year.
Tomatoes planted.
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Well good! Yeah I need to get the tomatoes and peppers planted out!
@warmwxrules and @Drew51 you’re braver than me – or just a bit farther ahead. I’m still working on hardening mine off, but hopefully they’ll be ready to transplant soon!
I had to go buy a 6 pack of beefsteak at Menards because the ones i started from seed --only a few sprouted. I also picked up a couple pepper plants and a (flowering) lavender. I also get a million volunteer tomatoes that sprout up. Started some cucumber seeds today…direct seeded cilantro.
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is there a group for inland Northwest/eastern Oregon, Washington, Idaho? like the high desert regions. it’s zones 5-6 here and high and dry mostly in summer, got, then wet very very cold winter.
edit: hi by the way, I’m new!
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Mine could use a few days more to harden off too. I’m going to wait to next week. I’m leaving Thursday for a few days.
About a week ago I direct seeded carrots and arugula. Actually rather late. I should have done that a few weeks ago. I never grew carrots before. Arugula I have grown before. Easy!
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@Drew51 Do you have any suggestions what the best (ie. Less disease, reliable crop, wothwile taste wise) sone fruit you grow? Based on some of your old posts I got spring satin as it seemed the most straigtforward and reliable of the interspecifics. I’d be interested with your experience what you would suggest for new grower.