My Yard 2022

[ScottR]

Wow, loks like every thing is rocking out at new place Kevin, nice to see all working out!

[johnb51]

So what is your straight-line distance to the ocean, Kevin?

[K-Rimes]

So what is your straight-line distance to the ocean, Kevin?

1 mile on the nose

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Next year's avo crop appears to be outstanding.


Not many avos this year but wow, they sure are amazing.


Orchard looks nice all trimmed up


First fruit off DMOR9, fell off in the wind so it wasn't a good analysis


Not all that into the multi tree in a hole theory, but I'll give it a shot


Some Sugar Apple on Cherimoya grafts look good


I was gifted this coffee cake persimmon at my old place, bareroot, and it did ok. Tried to graft some chocolate for it for cross pollination and the grafts seemingly failed. Transplanted the tree to the new place and both the tree and graft survived!


Looking good after install




Zoom in for plant names


Transplanted a guabiju here. You can see an old jujube I've been tasked with stumping and grafting, blood orange, and a cactus patch I'm going to remove.



This steep area has some sugar cane, grafted cherimoyas, kumquats, a languishing multi graft loquat (it may die, we'll see), and a few figs.


Brutal transplant for 2 ice cream beans, a Brokaw Hass, and a Lamb Hass all in various states of not being happy. There is a purple Lilly Pilly on the far right.

[K-Rimes]

We have these amazing grey foxes in the yard. Only issue is... They're fruit thieves. I see them dragging the best cherimoyas all around and munching half.


Speaking of best cherimoyas.


Great seed to flesh ratio


My grafts all popping on the cherimoya seedlings


Fig forest is leafing out. 46 of them in this area.


Fruit load is looking good here.


These white sapotes always impress.


Grimal popping off hard.


Gotta split this CORG community up soon.

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Old Butia


Calycina blooms


More cherimoya grafts


I LOVE having a tractor, wow, it makes life so much easier.


Yangmei 1g in ground


First flowers on pyriformis


Other pyriformis


Calycina about to bloom


Cherimoya haul off a big multi type tree

[roblack]

Beautiful Kevin! How old and tall is that Grimal? Mine has been in ground for years, finally starting to grow more.

Must be nice having some machinery to help with moving and planting. Reminds me of driving the tractor on the farm with my Grandad, some of the best memories.

[K-Rimes]

Beautiful Kevin! How old and tall is that Grimal? Mine has been in ground for years, finally starting to grow more.

Must be nice having some machinery to help with moving and planting. Reminds me of driving the tractor on the farm with my Grandad, some of the best memories.

I have two second year fruiting grimals which I bought from FlyingFox Fruits in Sept 2019 as plugs. Last year they just made a few each, but this year looks more promising. They are both kind of squat, no more than 4' tall.  They have always had really flat droopy growth, which I probably over pruned.

I also have a couple big grafted branches on a sabara from FLNative that are going to fruit well this year too, the grafts are nearly tree size themselves now with a 1" union. The rootstock half heartedly flowered this year too.

Will get some photos of them for you.

A tractor is needed out here, the orchard area is long and steep. It has really stepped up my gardening game.

This was the floppiest of them, tried to pull it up for a multi trunk vase shape. It is just about leaf out, it dropped a lot of them with winter and the move.


What the interior looks like

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Really filling it up now. This property gets crazy winds, so I am going with high density. Yangmei, Kohala Longan, Yuzu lime in the foreground. Yangmei is newest in ground here.


Lychee fruit set. This is a seedling, dunno the parentage. Hope it holds these.


I tacked on some Nabal and Reed here from Spaugh. Just hammered the rootstock back again. One Nabal and one Reed graft are taking off nicely.


I tried out Par4 organic granular fertilizer on this section of the orchard. Stuff works good.


Split this hive off another, set it in the "lower" part of the orchard. This area was bladed so there is no top soil and the avos don't perform well  here. The Par4 was an attempt to get them on the right track.


Alano sapodilla, and two older achacha put in ground here


Went to grab some honey supers from this stack and found bees already in it. Score, free bees.


Believe this is Selma. Predated me here, a graft.


Fig orchard is starting to take shape, just need to keep weed wacking.


First grimal I've had at the property. This is a graft from 2021, from FLNative


My landlord also has a sabara, it had never been pruned. Opened up the interior.


And it's first fruiting!

[SHV]

Keep us updated on the Achacha planted outside in the open.  I tried this with two 6 feet tall specimens and they did not like it.  I had to dig them out after two years and rescued them in a greenhouse or they would’ve been gone ‘ors sure.

[K-Rimes]

Keep us updated on the Achacha planted outside in the open.  I tried this with two 6 feet tall specimens and they did not like it.  I had to dig them out after two years and rescued them in a greenhouse or they would’ve been gone ‘ors sure.

That area is pretty protected from wind, only gets a few hours of direct sun. It's also in a kind of micro climate there surrounded by bigger heavy foliage trees that should improve humidity. Honestly, one of those trees sadly looks like a goner already, roots were looking really bad. The smaller one to the left looked pretty good and I think it'll survive. The soil there is phenomenal, so I have high hopes.

[Tropicaltoba]

Thanks for posting the updates. Super cool!

[roblack]

Lovely! It is nice to see your new place developing. From past stress you've created an even better plant paradise. Do you shade those cado grafts at all? Wondering how they handle the sun.

[K-Rimes]

Lovely! It is nice to see your new place developing. From past stress you've created an even better plant paradise. Do you shade those cado grafts at all? Wondering how they handle the sun.

It was tremendously hard on me leaving my last place, cause I thought I was going to be able to buy it, so it was totally a broken dream on the way out. What I didn't know is that I actually really needed this place, not the last one, and I've learned SO MUCH here already. What a feeling planting out real properly spaced rows of plants, like the figs.

I didn't shade the avo grafts. We're in a cool part of the year, and have not broken 80f yet. We get a marine layer for a lot of the year here that makes it overcast most of the day. May Grey, June Gloom, and Fogust are all terms for that. I did put some really low on the tree, so the trunk itself shades them, and that seems to be working best. I keep meaning to paint the trunks and grafts, but been busy. 

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First restaurant order of Hass avos from the ranch. Some are over a half pound.


These white sapotes will fruit soon


2lb cherimoyas off a seedling, awesome stuff


Starting to tag all my cherimoya grafts from this year now


This cherimoya has pink flesh, probably Selma?


Achacha in ground seedlings, they are taking full sun like champs. They had been accustomed to full sun for awhile in their pots so I just went for it.


The Hass fruit set for next year looking great. I am sure my bees here have helped a lot. Last year they had 17,000lb. This is the off year now, and maybe 8-10k.


Ponte Tresa fig looking very happy in ground after being rootbound in a 5g for some years.

[elouicious]

Jealous looking at those Cherimoya dude- you got a real winning spot there and even more so when the figs start coming in

[K-Rimes]

Jealous looking at those Cherimoya dude- you got a real winning spot there and even more so when the figs start coming in

I am curious how the figs will hold up with the heavy winds we get there. 60mph. I may regret planting them, but oh well, they got straight up torn out of the ground from my old place so it's not much loss if they don't work out.

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These pink flesh cherimoyas are amazing. Sugar bombs


Running irrigation in the fig area


Sharwil from Spaugh taking off with some oomph now


Most of my plants suffered with winter at the old place, and then the move was hard on them, but they're coming out now.


The potted plant collection is starting to look nicer now too


Cocktail jabo looking nice. ESALQ from FFF front and center


Hydra multi graft cherimoya


I was going to buy jujube scions to top work some trees on property but found these 1g grafted plants for not much more. Put them all in the same hole.

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Haven't had sabaras in a long while, missed the fall crop in prep of moving, wasn't watering.


Psidium australe flowers looking fat.


Set King! A Missiones "Giant" black from Marcos. The fruits are small, but crazy plentiful.


Sharwil scion from Spaugh blasting off


Seedling lychee, dunno quality yet


A Reed scion from Spaugh


Grimal first real flowering


Grafting Skittles and Big Yellow Guineense to guajava


Cherimoya season is winding down, but still dosing hard. I am hard pruning some of the trees here, which need major shaping re-sets.l

[johnb51]

Kevin's avocados are unbelievable.   Thank you, Kevin.  (Sorry for using the wrong knife and not making a clean cut.)





Oh yeah.  His cherimoyas are out-of-this-world also.

[K-Rimes]

Reed graft from Spaugh is crushing it on this old avo stump.


The first Yangmei I ever had the pleasure of seeing on a tree, and picking! I ate that red one as a sour fruit, which Simon turned me onto.


Cascuda from Bush2Beach with a beautiful flush!


Psidium grandifolia first flowers


Heavy duty fruit sets on this scion from NativeFL, the rootstock is also busting out for the first time


Big ol calycina on a scion from Achetadomestica


First heavy flower on a red hybrid from Bush2Beach


Top worked this Manila with Zebda, Ewais, and Rosigold


Sharwil graft from Spaugh started to get floppy, and he advised me to stake it up. I'll do a better job with that soon.

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Orange CORG fruiting nice. I have two trees, one barely fruits. Maybe will need to top work.


Thanks to JohnB51 for these lovely mangoes.


Ok, this isn't in my yard or on the ranch, it's a client I work for, but this is the best performing mango I have seen in CA by far. It is Manila. Sticky clay soil???


Same client, I grafted Hass from the ranch successfully on his stump suckers.


I deliver avos from the ranch to one of Santa Barbara's best restaurants weekly. This is their "grilled avocado" dish they make with it. It's called Barbareño. Not cheap, but worth a stop. I also sold blood orange to them for a period of time.


I arranged for CalAvo to pick the orchard clean tomorrow, 10,000lb is the guess.


Bins


Ok, another not at ranch pic, this is a Kevin Jones "Nelita" I planted at the office park I work at. Fruits prolifically solo, but I'll probably graft it for better size.


Pitanga going nuts at the office park.

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We have these amazing grey foxes that are SO docile... But they are the worst fruit pest of all time. They will eat every single fruit as it ripens. I suspect this is who is eating my jabos... Speaking of which, see below.


I believe this is a Pine Island Grimal that made it to CA. I grafted on a branch from FLNative, top left. Holding lots of fruit! This is its first strong fruiting session.


This is a Grimal which I bought from FFF in 2019 holding its first crop. It is decidedly bigger and better quality than the one above.


Nabal, Reed, and Nabal grafts taking flight.


Eugenia Zuccarini first fruits


Cerifera cuttings rooting for future Yangmei grafting.


Fruiting Restinga wood grafts from Docky taking on some Sabara plugs I got from FFF.


The fruit load on the avos looks absolutely mental for next year. We did 10,000lb this year, and I am sure it'll be 20,000 next year. I suspect my beehives have been a crucial ingredient to getting fruit set, and can't wait to see the Sharwil grafts I did play part as well.


Thanks to GOZP for these annona scions of various types. I got lots and lots of takes. This is a top worked Tropic Sun on cherimoya.


This fruit box of Hass and Moro Blood orange is off to Roblack today.

[roblack]

WOOOOHOOOOO! =)~

THANK YOU!

[CRiSP]

Haven't had sabaras in a long while, missed the fall crop in prep of moving, wasn't watering.


Psidium australe flowers looking fat.


Set King! A Missiones "Giant" black from Marcos. The fruits are small, but crazy plentiful.


Sharwil scion from Spaugh blasting off


Seedling lychee, dunno quality yet


A Reed scion from Spaugh


Grimal first real flowering


Grafting Skittles and Big Yellow Guineense to guajava


Cherimoya season is winding down, but still dosing hard. I am hard pruning some of the trees here, which need major shaping re-sets.l

Do you have a photo of those Missiones fruit. I’ve got a friend here who has what we think might be the same growing here. It not only made it through snow and eighteen degrees on January 21. It flowered and fruited in April of the same year! A small fruit. Black. Very seed. Very small seed.