The one I got from them is doing well, but they really do ship too early for my zone, and I prefer my trees with roots.
I’ll buy from them if there’s no better alternative
Apples: Goldrush on g.202, CrimsonCrisp on g.202, possibly a Honeycrisp on g.935 g.202 (looks like there’s some tree deaths with some large growers putting a Honeycrisp sport on this rootstock)
European Pear: Harrow Sweet (Cummins is out, will probably get it from Edible Landscaping on whatever roostock they have)
I still have to work on the wife for stone fruit. There is a perfect area for some trees right on the other side of the driveway from where the house is, I’d need to remove some ugly hemlock hedge first. I haven’t firmed out what I’d get anyways. Nects that have caught my eye include Honey Royale, Honey Blaze, Easternglo, Arctric Glo, Summer Beaut, and Sunglo. Out of these, I have only tasted Sunglo. For peaches, whatever I tasted today was fantastic but I haven’t yet contacted the orchard to ask what the variety was. I suspect Contender.
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Go for it man… a few nice dinners and she will let you 
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I already do most of the cooking! She’s not flat-out rejecting the thought of cutting a portion of that hedge now. I just hope I get the go-ahead before it’s too late to order whatever peach and nectarine tree I wind up choosing.
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Well I have the room and my wife enables me, so if everything goes well, I hope to plant…
Silk hope , Pakistan, and WBM mulberries
Autum Beauty, Li, and Honey Jar Jujubes
2 Carmine Jewel Bush Cherries
Charles Harris Asian Pear
2 Spicezee Nectoplums
Splash, Flavor King, Pluots
Flavor Delight, Goldkist Apriums
Delight and Sprite Cherry plums
and about 10 different cultivars of Muscadines
Some of these I am having a hard time finding online.
If anyone has had bad experiences with any of these, please comment. I don’t want to grow something just to find out three years later, it was no good.
TFN
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Since you ask, I am not impressed with Splash at all. In my yard, zone 6a in MA! It was nothing to write home about. But again, you are in zone 8. (not sure what state). The result maybe different where you are.
I would pick Lavina plum over Splash any day of the week.
I have Easternglo nect. So far, not impressed. Nothing stands out and it is too acidic to my liking. I prefer a sweeter one like Arctic Star.
Wow, Dax, that’s not a happy story. I also ordered half a dozen trees from BL which arrived in plenty of time to catch a month of winter. I potted them up and kept them in a garage until spring came, and they were all happy as could be. We’re on the same track but somehow got different results.
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Where did you order your apricot from, if you don’t mind me asking?
I really can go either way with the acidity, an excellent fruit is an excellent fruit to me… Honey Blaze is said to be a low-acid, sweet nectarine. I haven’t tried it but a lot of people here have given it high marks, and Adams lists it as “the best of the sub-acid nectarine varieties we have tested”. Also, I just remembered there’s a nect that Alan regarded as mango-like in flavor. It was one that I crossed out above. I have two of the Honey series in mind.
I ordered it from ACN. It is also available from another nursery called: Cricket Hill Garden— link below:
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Since you ask, I am not impressed with Splash at all. In my yard, zone 6a in MA! It was nothing to write home about. But again, you are in zone 8. (not sure what state). The result maybe different where you are.
I would pick Lavina plum over Splash any day of the week.
I’m in Georgia. That’s sad to hear about Splash Pluot. I have read so many good things about it. That’s why I decided to get one. DWN has it as taste test winner. May have to do more research on that one.
TFN
If you could find someone who grew Splash in the same coast, vicinity and is happy with it, that would be a good indicator. DWN is likely can grow anything fantastically in CA.
Also, I have not come across any nursery catalog that says bad things about any fruit variety it offers. They all sound wonderful.
Thanks, mamuang, for the info on Lavina plum. I had not heard of it. From what little information I find can on it, it sounds great. I will probably at least add it to my wish list for next spring. Do you have a chill hour rating on it?. I agree with you on nursery descriptions, if we went by what they say, we would have to have them all.Lol. It is much better to go by growers here on this forum and others, that have had actual first hand experience, preferably in a comparable climate.
TFN
I’d have to look but I’m nearly 100% sure I have extra grafts on OHxF 87. I sell cheap and you pay for shipping costs which amount to anywhere from 8 to 10 dollars most of the time. Usually a 20$ bill will get you a tree.
Dax
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I have room for one more tree. I want to make it a Prok persimmon. I know Stark has them, but other than that they seem hard to find. There are a lot of other modifications I want to do, but I will save those for another thread.
If anyone knows where I can get a Prok, or the other good American persimmon trees Dax talks about, let me know. Thanks
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I’ll be digging 100-46 and many others next-spring, Jim. I’ll make a list shortly of what I have extra’s of. I may have Prok as this year bench grafts, as-well.
Dax
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Sounds great, Barkslip. Just let me know when, where and how… I would love to get one from you.
TFN
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Thanks Dax, Let me know and I’ll definitely buy from you! What does it mean to have Prok as a bench graft, that you grafted Prok onto a root stock? By the way I love all the pictures of your big yard and big projects.
Have a great weekend.
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Thank you, Jim.
I grafted on bareroot rootstocks (can also be potted for bench grafting) but in this case it was bareroot. Then I bundled grafts and stuck them in a big rubbermaid tub in my greenhouse to callous and grow.
The others I grafted were in-ground or what is typically known as field grafting. You graft onto established rootstocks in the ground/field grafting.
Dax
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