Years to Fruit

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@Shibumi

There are advantages to both grafted and ungrafted. Carmine jewell cherries are not grafted and quickly spread through suckers at around year 5

Carmine Jewell Cherry Yields increasing with age

I’ve noticed substantially higher cherry numbers this year as Carmine Jewell ages. Anyone else seeing this trend? I would say the yields have doubled every year since they started bearing. I normally don’t see those types of fruit increases from one year to the next. Here’s a few pictures so you know what I mean. [image][image][image][image]

Blackberries like these are not grafted and spread through the ground quickly.

Blackberries by the gallons

It’s that time of year again in Kansas for the peak blackberry season. Before 7:00 am we picked 2 gallons. Blackberry season started about a week and a half ago with a light crop. The crop will progressively increase until the 25th or so and then declines the way it started. I planted a couple of acres 20 years ago. How are the blackberries doing in your area? [image] [image]

Pears like these rootstocks i grafted after they grew out and established roots. The scion i graft to the rootstock determines how long it takes to fruit primarily. The rootstock once established as long as its a known type produced in a certain number of years. Seedling rootstocks can influence years to fruit though.

Grafting large Callery and Betulifolia pear rootstocks

It’s much better if i don’t let a callery go to long but occasionally I do. There is a big difference between a 2 and 3 year old callery. This one was more like 4 years old i think because it was in an older orchard it got overlooked twice. Clearly the grafts failed and it should have been t- bud grafted. Planting large amounts of rootstocks then grafting them in 1 or 2 years is a great strategy at my orchard. Allowing the roots to get established gives the tree more resistantance to dro…