Some nice wildlife apples i saw @39thparallel place today.
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what cultivar is that one?
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What else did you see? I’d love to visit Mike out there
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Mike has anything and everything from jujube to persimmons and potted trees, etc. They even have a beautiful flock of chickens. I always come home with bushel+ of apples and spend the day hanging out with him. We are old friends. As an admin on the forum, i try not to talk @39thparallel up to much because it could become a conflict of interest. The nursery , the orchard , the fruit harvested, etc. Really is top of the line all the way. I updated the description to reflect the name.
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What flavor do they have? Sweet like the name?
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A conflict of what interest?
You have many very good threads on his nursery already. And probably many hundreds of mentions and tags… let alone the threads of your findings and his ability to sell those things to us.
I am here for the truth myself and to gain knowledge and obtain things for my interests.
I understand that the crown is heavy being an admin, but please keep your zest of sharing the truth and your experiences.
As far as conflict there are many owners of nurseries large and small that visit here from time to time. Most do not spend much if any time here due to the small number of members and the lack of buyers.
This is a very small niche forum with few active participants. I do not see any kind of conflict myself…
From what i see you are more of an enthusiast and storyteller and educator more than an Admin… which is the backbone of what makes this forum great.
Keep sharing the truth.
Maybe someday he will sell your mulberries and i will buy them. Until then i wait until maybe someone will share them.
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Yeah, I’m sure he gives you brown paper bags full of hundred dollar bills for any promotion you do for him here- big bucks capitalism and all.
Really, anything this forum can do for the survival of small family owned nurseries is a good thing. Even some of the larger commercial nurseries are pretty much family affairs, such as Adams County Nursery.
My nursery doesn’t do mail order so I almost never get a sale by way of publicity here… maybe it helps people search me up on the internet. A few years ago I got quite a large sale of trees by one of N. Carolina’s biggest real estate developers for his “gentleman farm” there. He contracted the big truck that came to pick up my order. It was one of the hardest workdays of my life just getting the trees loaded. The truck had no lift gate.
My presence on the internet via this forum helped his assistant find out about my business but I don’t remember ever selling a tree to a forum member.
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Sugar Tyme info-
https://www.arboretum.purdue.edu/explorer/plants/445/
The name looks to be a registered trademark.
Sold by many many nurseries
If any interest can be had from this discussion… it would be nice if folks would plant crabs like these instead of their obsession with callery pears.
No they are not sweet haha i tried a few and they are more to animals taste.
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Yes, the profit margin for small nurseries are very slim. Mike is a great guy, but as you say, there is not a lot of money in the small nursery business. He works hard , sometimes all night long, to fill orders. You know how hard you have to work because you have an orchard and take care of orchards like we do. Most days after you put in long hours if your lucky you stay in the green.
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By conflict of interest i mean i mention every nursery equally and not only 39thparallel.
Many times ones like honeyberryusa, @KYnuttrees , raintree, starks, gurneys, plantingjustice , trees of antiquity, richard fahey, bob purvis etc.. are ones i mention but If we only talked about @39thparallel doing a great job and not the great persimmons Cliff England sells, or the amazing cherries and honeyberries at honeyberryusa than that would be a conflict of interest. Naturally since 39thparallel is so close by i could post weekly on the wonderful stuff he sells because we are friends. @scottfsmith has always kept the website advertisement free and we dont want to change that. We discuss all the great nurseries as equally as we can and never want to promote @39thparallel over all the others. Since i’m at his nursery frequently it would be easy to post 1000x the information i do about his nursery. We know nurseries like orangepippin have the best pollination list out there. Scott built this thread to let everyone know about all the different nurseries. We want all nurseries to get a fair shake and not just support one nursery more than all the others.
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My bearing age fruit tree nursery is an essential component of my orchard care business. I am still managing orchards I installed over 30 years ago and they require more labor every year. I’m only 40 miles from NYC so the economy here is completely different than in rural KS.
The closer you are to the urban money troughs the more there is to extract- you just have to exploit that to override the greater cost of living. I have a niche market that is reasonably profitable so I don’t have to work myself to death and even have time to spend a lot of it writing comments like this on this forum.
I don’t spend as much time sleeping as a normal person though.
I’m very glad that I grow trees and not fruit for a living. Trees of high cost because I size them up for a few years.
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We have even had a couple of your customers on the forum and like Mike i recognize for you it is a labor of love. We love growing fruit. Mike had some amazing raja pears he was selling yesterday as well. Im going to have to put in a row of those this year. We are very fortunate to have these oppurtunities to grow such a variety of things. I liked some of Mikes coming projects a lot. I’m not talking about them yet. Everyone will find out soon enough!
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That is the strange thing. The markets seek people out. We are not even listed, licensed or opened yet and folks seek you out. We never intended for folks to come out and see our repository of trees. And folks want to do that too. Between goats, big dogs, chickens, turkeys and the wife’s much more extensive flowers; we do not want folks upsetting the apple cart…lol
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