Common Hackberry (Celtis occidentalis) Overview - Ninja Gardening - Episode 49
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- The Common Hackberry is a good permaculture tree for northern temperate climates. While it doesn't produce large showy fruit, the fruit it does produce has been utilized by mankind for millennia. However, it is likely the birds and other wildlife will consume most of the fruits before you can harvest any.
It is becoming popular as an urban landscaping tree, as it serves as a replacement for the American Elm tree. Many of our native Elm trees are dying because of the Dutch Elm disease.
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Mine wete so covered with woolly aphids dropping honey dew constantly and attracting yellow jackets I finally cut it down.
Thank you for your sharing
How long have you been growing this tree? I’m curious how fast it grows.
This tree is about 15 years old. It hasn't been babied though.
As a child we always called these trees " Witch Trees " because of how scary the contorted branches looked , In this area , central Kentucky , these trees grow very large and have the best blow gun ammo the Lord ever made for kids . You cannot break these branches by hand , but the branches will just drop when they take a notion , according to my Grand Mother . As an old man these are still my favorite trees , probably because of the old folk lore and the weird things that grow in them . Witch brooms and mistletoe to name a couple . I`ll just shut up now , but if given the chance , just stare at one for a while and see for yourself . They are eerie in a good sort of way .
Thanks for the video, I think mine might be called a sugarberry I am in the south. The nut on yours looks far larger and I have smooth slender leaves. But it seems like the offset growth pattern is the same the very looks the same the bark looks the same, except my bark is more silver and it's an older tree so the ridges are deeper.
I've been in the house a few years now and this is the first year I've been aware of a fruiting. Could be that multiple hurricanes chase the birds away long enough for me to see the fall harvest.
This year I did not get good foliage, and what foliage I did get had tiny black spots all over it. It could be that I've been trimming this tree out of season, out of not knowing what kind of tree it is. I am yet to try to feed it or treat it.
Also my fruit turns a deep purple. Not red or orange.
I'd appreciate any advice towards how to treat this plant, and if you can confirm what kind of tree this might be based on the similarities with the common hackberry.
If you do respond, please throw a like on my comment, as it alerts me to the response.
Such an underrated tree
Agreed. I am appreciating the species more and more as I work with it.
I'm on the urban forestry committee for my small southern Oregon town and have been pushing hard to plant hackberries as street trees. It's a hard sell, but I keep trying. Hard to find in local nurseries.
Interesting! Would like to know how strong the limbs are or how well they stand up in Kansas winds.
The trees have stood up to our strong north wind pretty well, with little lost of limbs. I have only experienced a hail storm passing through Kansas once a number of years ago... with golf ball sized hail stones. But it looks like there are native Common Hackberries in Kansas, on the eastern side of the state, so you might be able to find some that will grow where you are at.
They do fine in kansas there's about 3 growing in my backyard .
Did you trim the lower branches to get such a long trunk without branches, or is that just how they grow? I planted a hackberry because they're cool but also for some privacy. I now realize that once it grows taller, there may not be any branches for the first 6-20 feet and it might not give me much privacy! Also, do I have to rake up and burn the leaves, or can I just mow them up? The nipple thing isn't actually harmful to the leaves/tree, right, just odd? Thanks for the video! Hope my hackberry has berries fairly soon! I probably won't be able to eat them, but hopefully the birds will!
How old before the tree produces fruit?
I haven’t grown them from seed, but the grafted tree bear fruit in two to three years for the ones I had.
We had one about 6 foot tall growing on our property. We cleared the area and kept the tree. That was in late 2013. The tree has grown a lot, but no fruit yet.
That's not a hackberry tree...
it certainly is
What region are you in?
I am in Southern Idaho.