WOW! Great recap, we have several of these varieties that we grafted this year. Will try to remember and connect with you next year to potentially trade scions.
WOW!! Amazing. You've done a great job. I never thought anything could grow in New Mexico. I recall driving through New Mexico that I saw only rock and no green life other than some cactuses.
@@flackfruit Do you amend your soil? How, or what do you amend your soil with? I am asking because I have clay soil on one side of the property and sandy soil on the other side. My fruit trees don't do well. Some never started a life - just die straight after planting. Some that live, they barely hold on to life. I only have fig and persimmons that start fruiting, but so much persimmon fruit dropped. Anyway, I didn't amend the soil all the time. I didn't because instructions that come with say don't amend, but some instruction say amend. I amend based on whatever instruction that come with plants.
I live in Tokyo (zone 8b) and grow several varieties of citrus trees. Citrus trees in Japan are grafted on Karatachi (Citrus trifoliata) which increases the cold hardiness of the scion. As a result, varieties such as Saipan lemons and Tahitian limes can be planted in the ground and survive winters. The Karatachi is no good for eating purposes but it produces tonnes of seeds. If you can get a fruit somehow, you can grow root stock from that.
Thank you for the information, I will give it a try with some of my citrus and see how it works here. I do have a few citrus in the ground that have survived, a Cara Cara Orange, Kumquats, and Loquats (even though it is not citrus).
Patiently waiting the future plums, pluerry, and apriums bloom and fruit set video!
I will get one up in the next month, they take a while to set fruit, damn trees :)
WOW! Great recap, we have several of these varieties that we grafted this year. Will try to remember and connect with you next year to potentially trade scions.
Sounds good to me, still having issues with Muscadine, they keep dying back every year, I don't know why.
OKC 7a are awake as well.. mostly nectarines and plums.
It is crazy, I think.
WOW!! Amazing. You've done a great job. I never thought anything could grow in New Mexico. I recall driving through New Mexico that I saw only rock and no green life other than some cactuses.
Thank you, all you need is food and water and in some cases shelter and you can grow anything almost anywhere.
@@flackfruit Do you amend your soil? How, or what do you amend your soil with? I am asking because I have clay soil on one side of the property and sandy soil on the other side. My fruit trees don't do well. Some never started a life - just die straight after planting. Some that live, they barely hold on to life. I only have fig and persimmons that start fruiting, but so much persimmon fruit dropped. Anyway, I didn't amend the soil all the time. I didn't because instructions that come with say don't amend, but some instruction say amend. I amend based on whatever instruction that come with plants.
I know you live in a warmer zone than me but it's still weird to flowers blooming in February
exactly, that is why I made a video to document it. Everything is waking up right now.
All of my jujube's are starting to leaf already here in zone 8 southeastern New Mexico
That is great, mine are about a week out now, I will make a video soon showing them.
7A in PA and I've got stone fruit starting to break bud. Last frost date is April 21st, so I'm a little concerned.
I am right there with you. Hopefully last frost date was last week.
I live in Tokyo (zone 8b) and grow several varieties of citrus trees. Citrus trees in Japan are grafted on Karatachi (Citrus trifoliata) which increases the cold hardiness of the scion. As a result, varieties such as Saipan lemons and Tahitian limes can be planted in the ground and survive winters.
The Karatachi is no good for eating purposes but it produces tonnes of seeds. If you can get a fruit somehow, you can grow root stock from that.
Thank you for the information, I will give it a try with some of my citrus and see how it works here. I do have a few citrus in the ground that have survived, a Cara Cara Orange, Kumquats, and Loquats (even though it is not citrus).