How is it GROWING? Our Ice Cream Bean Tree after 1 year in Phoenix, AZ! (Zone 9B)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2024
- Welcome back to The Green Yard and a new segment called, How is it growing? It's a new spin on our previous growing videos but focusing on how certain fruiting and flowering trees have done in certain amounts of time. In this video I bring you an update on our Ice Cream Bean tree. This tree is pretty amazing and I have both made good and bad decisions with it this past year. It did amazing through our ultra cold winter in 2022. It was covered in frost fabric and supplied supplemental heat in the form of C9 Christmas light bulbs. It was a champ through the winter and started putting on lots of new growth in spring. Then I made a mistake, I forgot that this tree has yet to be through a summer since it was planted in September. This is important because, typically for all of my trees, I provide some form of afternoon shade it's first summer. When we started getting hot in July our Ice Cream Bean tree died back to the roots, but is has since sprouted (once it got some supplemental shade) and is around three and a half to four feet tall. Since this Ice Cream Bean tree is a seedling it will grow true to the roots and still produce the same tree. This was like hitting the reset button and all of our mealybug problems have disappeared and I now have an incredibly healthy tree. If you have any questions please comment below and for more great green content you can follow us on social media.
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Here in Phoenix our ice cream bean trees dealt with this past winter perfectly fine. They were left unprotected yet made it out unscathed.
Hello @albertromero9353, thank you for watching and commenting! That is great to hear that your ice cream bean trees didn't require any protection this past winter! How old are your trees? That gives me hope that I will not have to cold protect it much longer.
I have one also. Can’t wait to taste it
Hello, thank you for watching and commenting! That's awesome that you have one. I've heard they do a lot better after a few years and can grow to good, medium sized trees here in Phoenix. They taste pretty good. I have not tried a Phoenix grown Ice Cream Bean but I have had them in Peru.
I enjoy your videos and knowledge it help me with my gardening 🥑
Hello, thank you for watching and commenting! I really appreciate your kind words and I'm so glad to hear that my videos are helping with your gardening. Let me know if you have any questions.
How's it doing after the summer? Are you worried about the potential size of it with where you planted? I have one last spot in my yard that I think I could fit a taller and wider tree with the goal of it eventually giving some shade
Hello @TheJohnGray, thank you for watching and commenting! Our Ice Cream Bean is actually doing amazing after the summer this year. I'm going to put out a "How is it Growing" video on it in the next few weeks so stay tuned. It had issues last year just because it was it's first ever summer in the ground. I am not worried about the size of the plant based on where I planted it because it essentially goes dormant in the winter. So it's not going to get as tall as it would in it's native environment. If it does get to tall I will trim it to the size I want it at. I have found that it responds really well to trimming and usually puts out a lot of new growth afterwards. I think that is a great spot for an Ice Cream Bean tree! Let me know if you have any other questions.
How did it do in the winter
Hello @zyphworld9939, thank you for watching and commenting! It actually did really well this winter. I did cold protect it again this year (put on frost cloth and supplemental heat). I really didn't have the supplemental heat on very much except for our really cold nights. I have a feeling that in another two years or so I won't have to protect at all during the summer or the winter. Let me know if you have any other questions.