Starting a Fruit Tree Nursery | Desert Adapted Fruit Trees for Everyone
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ค. 2024
- When we started farming out here in Arizona we had some ideas of what we wanted to offer the community. Local fruit was definitely on the list, but we never thought we would be doing what you're seeing here today.
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Good job folks native trees for the local community
I want a loquat 🎉
We've had a few folks suggest loquats. It's not on the plan yet, but if we can figure out propagation for them we may give that a shot.
The seeds sprout quickly IF planted soon after harvesting (not dry out). Am trying seeds in a damp towel, in the fridge, to try to buy some planting flexibility.
@@vginnmusa3128 we've attempted them before and the challenge for us will be doing that at scale as they will need moisture control when they're young. At least, that's my understanding.
Good to hear of your new adventure. I'm looking forward to getting at least a fig tree from you two this year
We're excited to give this a shot!
Great idea to add live trees for sale. Next you’ll be like me learning to graft and offering all of your favorite peaches, plumbs, apples and the like. My driveway typically has tubs full of tree sleeves with rootstock and already grafted trees, lol. I get tree rootstocks for $3 each and free scion wood so it’s a pretty economical way to get a new fruit tree especially when you can turn around and sell it for $20-$30 or more in a few months. I may have a total of $5-$6 invested in each tree when it’s ready to plant in the ground.
Ok, I had no idea you had a nursery!? It was not on our list of things to add to the business, but having so many folks ask us for trees we just couldn't at least give it a shot. How long have you been doing this?
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm I never intended to get to this point, lol. Mostly I was interested in a less expensive way to get my orchard to where I want it to be and grafting was something I discovered I was good at and really enjoyed. I’ve used the vast majority of my trees at this point to build up my own collection but this year I bought a lot of extra rootstock and I am planning to offer some for sale in the fall and have lots of rootstock on hand to graft as cool varieties of scion wood are available to me.
@@jaredmccutcheon5496 ah ok, so you're in a similar situation. We had not intentions of doing this either, so I suppose we'll see how it goes!
OutSTANDING!!! Seemed like you were asked for these things every time you had a tour, so should be great for you guys! I''ll bring my wallet next time I stop by !!!
Hey Kevin! Yes, we have folks ask us for these on the regular, especially after seeing them in person.
❤ I hope everything prosper. ❤
Thank you! ❤️
Aloha from Hawaii… me Steve
Fantastic!!!! It’s about time, lol
Nice to have another source of income… hope this takes off for ya
Take care!!
Hey there Steve. We're hoping these do well and figure it's best to start with varieties that are easier for folks to grow. Maybe one of these days we'll have a few bananas. 😉
Good deal. I'm also in AZ and while there are some good nurseries, I've had challenges sourcing a lot of the varieties I wanted. Hat tip to Chris. I know there's some deep expertise in the cannabis industry. Here's hoping you might venture out into more varieties. I'm growing over a dozen mulberries (which all do great in our heat) and over fifty fig varities (with mixed success). I've love to see a local source for desert-adapted grapes, and some hard-to-find jujubes and pomegranates.
Wow, you have your hands full there with those trees! I have to say, mulberries have quickly become our all around favorite tree. Easy to grow, easy to prune and an abundant harvest!
Im excited to hear this as much as I was when you finally got clothing too!! I look forward to buying from you :)
Glad to hear it Eric. Got your email, so we'll respond here shortly!
Would love to see you add cherry and pomme family varieties that are known to be able to handle Arizona heat.
We haven't had success with the cherry varieties that we've tried, so I'm not sure about that one. However, Reid at RSI Growers does FANTASTIC with his AZ grown root stocks for pome fruit.
I’ll have to head over and get on the list at some point. Best of luck with this latest endeavor. It’s been exciting to see your farming expanding over the years and this is no exception.
Thank you, we're hopeful as well!
Glad to hear it! I hope all watchers are spreading word of your youtube channel. We have 3 figs and two mulberries along with citrus, peaches, Peruvian apple cactus, wolf berry, and so on. Needed: Almonds, pecans, another apple (Anna sounds good), and, unfortunately, should stay away from more fruit. Diabetic, erk. I'm looking for local pecan and almond seeds to start them and to graft. Hopefully to graft. Been a while since last I did that. Also, got to get sorghum planted around the trees and the garden beds to chase off ground squirrels. Happy simmer! May it rain! niio, kids.
Hey Martin. Almonds do well, but pecans can be a real challenge. When we finally were able to get 3 of them to survive they're now growing VERY slowly. They also stunt each Summer and lose almost all of their leaves. The almonds do great though!
Woo hoo! George L here. Can’t wait for your launch! I vote you propagate some vines too! Yeah, you knew that was coming, right☺️
George, we can always count on you to bring it around to grapes!!
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm yes but I’m eager to “branch out” 😂
Excellent video. good things to propagation from your own farm. Any plant die , you can replace . You will be the best propagator .
Glad you enjoyed this one Abid!
I'm happy for your new adventure. I wish you were my nextdoor neighbor. I'd be wanting to buy all kinds of things from you, like eggs!!
Thanks Taylor. I would say we can ship you some, but you'd wind up with pre-scrambled eggs by the time they arrived!
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm, LOL! Very true.
That is such great news...Shangri La will be my first purchase from you!
That is one of the 2 mulberries and by far our favorite to grow!
You should consider adding some pomegranates, grapes, olives, elderberries and blackberries, all fairly easy to propagate from cuttings also the same as the figs and mulberry and will grow very well in your area. I currently grow 35 types of figs, 15 types of pomegranates, 12 types of grapes(wine and table), 6 types of mulberry, 5 types of olives, 2 types of blackberries and 2 types of elderberry here on my high desert plot of land zone 9a and I originally started them all from cuttings I either bought online or was able to collect near me. I have many other oddball types of other plants as well. None of which would bare fruit for me very well in my area to be able to sell the fruit alone so I get to eat some fruit, the critters get some fruit, and then I harvest the cuttings as my "crop". You may even consider selling just the cuttings as that is what I do rather than live plants or fresh produce. I could sell more cuttings than I can even produce and I can ship them all over the nation which is the best part for me as I do not have enough people living around me to buy hardly any of what I can produce. There is more perceived end value in the plants but there is FAR more time and support costs involved also. I find cuttings to be a more profitable use of my time. The down side is your mother plants often do not look or produce fruits their best so just make a separate "mother cutting plant" area away from all of your main crop plants on your farm. Maybe you wish to attract buyers to your farm with the plants along with all of your other items and make use of your trimmings that otherwise would go into the mulch piles? Anyway, I have sold plants and personally enjoy selling cuttings far more.....
We've kicked around the idea of cuttings, but we're shying away from shipping anything for now. You're right though, a lot less cost when it's all said and done! Sounds like you have quite the property!
Where are you localed and do you have a list of what you sell? I'm in St. George, UT.
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@@janetspiritofthelivinggod6328 Thanks for asking but I am pretty full up on orders as it is and I don't want to use these peoples channel to try and promote myself.....
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm thanks, like yours it's a constant work in progress.
Definitely interested in your trees.
Be sure to join our customer email list through the website. That's how we'll let everyone know when these are ready. 😉
I love this for you! Hope to visit in the future, maybe buy a tree 😊
We're keeping our fingers crossed it does well!
Great news!
Glad to hear it!!
I got a mulberry from a well known local exotic nursery in phoenix that was labelled as green shahtoot but turned out to be dwarf everbearing. Not a bad mulberry but not what it was labelled.
We know just how you feel. It's frustrating for everyone involved as I'm sure that nursery assumed it was correct as well.
I need to get on the list for "that" mulberry with the larger leaves...your favorite
That's the Shangri La, it is an AMAZING tree for us here and produces some incredible fruit.
Awesome! ❤ I’d love to get some trees from you guys as your climate in Whitman is very similar to mine in Tonopah! Heat and wind!
We definitely share the same climate. Just a few degrees cooler than it is in town without the city heat around us.
Very Cool!! Six years later, I still am unable to get rid of a (male) Pakistani mulberry that was supposed to be female. You never know exactly what you are going to get when you buy online or at the big box stores. Best of luck to you on your new business.
It really is so frustrating for all of us and I can't really blame the average nursery. They're assuming they've been sold the right variety from the grower as well, so frustrating for everyone involved.
Moved to AZ recently! Looking forward to seeing your farm this fall!
Welcome to AZ. The farm tours are a lot of fun and we try to get them in before all of the trees lose their leaves for the Winter.
Good to know. I will be looking forward to picking up a couple.
We're hoping to have them available by the farm tour this Fall. 😉
I have tried to grow figs. Had a couple of trees....seems the heat comes and the leaves all just fall off...never got a fig off of them. Do you ship?
Figs can be a little finnicky, but they are very well adapted to our environment. We don't plan on shipping as you have to cut through a lot of red tape to ship live plants these days. That may change depending on how the business goes though.
Will you be propagating other fruit trees? Loquats?
We're testing out the waters with these 4 varieties to see how they do and we'll go from there. Loquats can be a little finicky!
I was hoping they would say Loquats too lol. I’m still excited to see the Mulberry trees though!
@@hippiebits2071 this is a trial run for us to see how these do. We wanted to start with trees that have very high success rates for folks before "branching" out...😂
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I seriously want a pink grapefruit tree. Will you have those ?
I don't think we'll do any citrus as they can be pretty easy to find at local nurseries. What part of town are you in?
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Glad you found us again! Hopefully that's not TH-cam trying to pull one over on us!
I love what you doing . How do you provide water to trees and do you have a lots of pests ? . I love figs and since I live in cold area I have about 20 varieties in containers. I am thinking about moving to a warmer place and start some small orchard also but don’t know where and when . Wish you good luck on your project.
Hey there! We are on well water here in Wittmann. The only major pest activity we have here is from varmints and birds. As for figs, our warmer weather is a fig lovers dream. They all grow and produce like crazy with proper care!
What grows in the desert probably wouldn't like our humidity.
The Shangri La mulberry would actually do a bit better with some humidity. 😉
great stuff, do you have a video on how to propagate with cuttings ?
we are a bit far to purchase!
We do have a couple of videos on propagating. Our preferred method is Air Layering as we have had a LOT more success with it. Hence the reason we have a business partner to do the propagation for us. Here is the best option we've found for cuttings;
th-cam.com/video/C-yw2jv0SLk/w-d-xo.html
Even though your trees acclimatized to Arizona, do you think they would work in the high desert of Colorado?
Hmm, I'm not sure to be honest. The biggest challenge would be the amount of chill hours. All of the varieties we grow are low chill. We do get some hard frosts, but it doesn't stay below freezing for too long.
hummmmm thinking apriums n other pluots n peaches would be great ...........apples too (these are on my next to own as I find mulberries very easy to propagate as you mention and yes - these are grafts). Maybe your new partner can teach you 2 how to do it (propagating plants and keep them growing). Ya might as well learn the next step so you can truly be 100% home grown to be sold on your farm versus like most other nursery sellers not growing their own stuff and out-sourcing them......just saying. Remember - this is just my thinking out loud/opinion (you 2 know I give it freely)! Have a good 1 you 2!
Those a great suggestions and depending on how everything goes we may need to get with it on additional varieties. Lori is not a fan of competition, so anything Reid does well with might be a while! 😂
Can you get a hold of Dave Wilson, do a barefoot order, they have desert adapted ones, the Avocado Nursery has sold since Phil's passing, Ace Hardware in Queen Creek sold, so there's market opportunity.
Just making sure, are you suggesting a bare root avocado?
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm no not a Avocado, the avocados won't take the heat, even SoCal is having issues with it getting warmer, Avocado Nursery is a old business in Casa Grande, Phil passed away, now the new owners are , I'll leave it unsaid.
Look a Dave Wilson Selection, they have the low chill section, lots better growth planting barefoot, as you will see Dave Wilson stuff at Costco, Big box stores in pots, stuff that is odd branched, goofy calipers, look to see what the min order as a Commercial buyer, then what doesn't sell pot up and you can sell later, if people want to get potted.
Ask Reid his opinion.
Good Luck!!!
Thank you!
I had better luck thru online nurseries than local phoenix nurseries.
That's pretty frustrating. You'd hope it would be the other way around!!
You didn't mention what variety of figs you have?
We didn't talk varieties in this episode, so we could keep it shorter...and keep everyone tuning in. 😉 We did hint towards our favorite mulberry though.
I am hoping for an ever-baring or shangra La mulberry. Is the shangra La an ever-baring?
Technically none of the mulberry trees are everbearing for us here in AZ. Even our Illinois Everbearing only puts on one crop. However, it does fruit for over a month straight, so maybe it just pushes everything into that small window before it gets too hot!!
hi there
i think u r using well water
how deep the water table and whats the salinity of it
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Hello! Yes we use well water here. The well is 600' deep (182 meters). I don't know the salinity unfortunately, but it does have a lot of mineral content to it.
Gosh, this is wonderful... I'm starting a permaculture food forest in Marana, az... I wonder If I could buy the seeds from your fruit trees... or even just purchase some fruit from you?
Congrats on that new food forest. That will be a fun challenge for you!
As for seeds, the figs and mulberries do not have viable seeds as we don't have fig wasps here to pollinate the figs and all of our mulberry trees are female. That's one of the reasons we have a partner to propagate cuttings for us as it's the only way to make new trees!
I subscribed today and already watched 3 videos. I wish to buy a house in Tucson late this year or early next year. After that, I wish to buy some fruit trees from you. I hope you propagate Ant Admire Jujube. Jujube was the first video I watched. I wish to have a mango, persimmon, pomegranate and fig tree. I don’t know if you can grow mango and persimmon in AZ. Thank you
Glad you found us and you will find our content to be very informative for where you're looking to live. Our climate here in Wittmann is almost identical to the Tucson area.
At 01:20 I noticed you had cinder block walls on your farm. They look to be about 1.5m high. Were they so high for privacy or to counter the wind? Do you have any problems with hot, dry winds there and if so what are you doing about it?
That was on our old property and we don't have them on the current farm. These were reinforced to withstand our high winds and they are still standing as of today with no issues. The main reason for them was privacy as we were on an acre and still very close to our neighbors which is not the case any longer.
Hi Duane and Lori, i would want a Black Pakistan mulberry. Is that one of the 2 mulberries? And is it possible to pre order or is it first come first serve? Thank you!
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I live in apple valley, ca. However, our climate freezes in the winter (avg 31deg for dec/jan). I have about 20 fruit trees that do well. However, every time i try figs or pomegranates, they die back to the ground in winter. Do you have any advice for success? I've given up, but I know that it can be done. I just don't know how.
Hmm, this is interesting. We get down into the low 20's and don't have that issue with our figs. It may be a variety issue. Chicago Hardy is one of the best figs out there for cooler climates, so it may be worth trying. If not, you can keep them in pots and move them indoors. I'm wondering if it has to do with how long you're in freezing temps? We hit 20 degrees, but it's not for more than a couple of hours very early in the morning.
Are your pakistan mulberries from cuttings or grafted onto other breeds?
The trees we have on the back of the farm are on a root stock. Supposedly that shortens the time they take to fruit, but we have had new cuttings start fruiting in year one, so I'm not sure it really makes a difference.
Hey guys this is awesome news. I'm interested in both types of trees. I'm in Prescott Valley at 5300' in altitude. Is this going to be a issue for these trees? Thanks
The varieties we have right now will do just fine in Prescott. In fact, one of the mulberries would prefer it up there!
What about the Figs?@@EdgeofNowhereFarm
@@rudyhernandez9245 depending on where you're at in Prescott they may be ok. Both are good down to Zone 7.
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Love love love figs, but "from clippings" doesn't make a new generation. To really adjust to the climate you need to grow from seed. Small correction, no biggie
Hmm, interesting.
its crazy to me that "i did come from the cannibus industry" is now considered culturally acceptable. not saying its bad. but 20 years ago this guy would be a felon.
Times are a changin, that's for sure. It's not our cup of tea, but you can't argue with the skills it takes to propagate those plants!
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm, I would personally love a Cannibas cutting. Is there going to be an opportunity for that? I use Cannabis to make pain tinctures.
@@Pamsgarden213 next time you're out this way let me know in advance and we'll get you connected with Chris.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm, perfect!