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My Sweetheart is starting to flower, this will be the first year I let it hold fruit. I hope they are as good as your Brewsters Kaz!
Nice Nate. Mine fruited last year and i harvested in Sept. You and I are in same city. When did you stop feeding it?
If RKN can be properly treated with pesticides and beneficial nematodes, why the need to graft onto a different rootstock? The trees from the order last year planted in the ground seem to be doing pretty good on their native rootstock. If we can hit the RKN’s before planting the trees, what’s the need to graft onto a different rootstock, unless obviously the growth flush and overall health of the tree will be improved.
Yes, if you treat your trees, you should be relatively safe but there are growers out there that may have a lot of money invested in their orchards and even the slightest possibility of bringing in harmful Nematodes can potentially cross contaminate all their other crops causing a huge loss of crops/money invested.
For the dooryard grower, not too big of an issue but for larger orchards, it’s best to play it safe. An ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure.
Treating the trees with the two products I posted was relatively easy and gave me peace of mind.
Grafting onto other rootstocks may, or may not, give you better growth, disease resistance or better adaptability to drier/wetter soils. There is not a lot of data so far as this is such a new fruit crop.
Simon
Simon
😭just missed this group order, when will be the next order?
Snowmm or other SoCal folks,
We have a make up package sent out to southern California, Fountain City, CA 92708.
it will be arriving today.
There are following varieties.
1 Wusu
2 Late growing
1 Crystal
2 An Hai
5 male trees( 2 DK male, 1 CR male, 1 LG male)
Please let me know the varieties, and qty. You can do local pick up if it is close. Or if you buy more than 6 trees,
we can ship to you, you take care of the shipping cost.
You can send me PM or email to biaozhang@hotmail.com.