Hey how’s everyone’s Yangmei doing?
I recently planted this an hai in ground. I was going to sell it to a gentleman in FL, but the deal fell through when I couldn’t find a big enough box. Plus the leaves turned a bit brown…
I checked the roots and there are no signs of RKN at all. The roots that had galls rotted off and died. Now all I see are new white and brown mature roots. I decided to plant in ground.
Based off my research it seems this can survive here.
The plants are healthy and I saw little white feeder roots.
Just to be safe, I planted this away from my plants even though I think there is no RKN now. I’ll keep treating and will follow up with beneficial nematodes to seal the deal. Even if they spread, in this climate and soil, the damage will be minimal.
In zone 7b? What will you do to protect it?
On my end, my yangmei is totally parked and not moving at all so I'm just going to graft it onto some californica and call it a day. The Californicas are growing very fast and I will miss the window of rootstock diameter to yangmei branch diameter if I wait too long.
Problem with grafting I guess is low success rates and unless you grafted right when you got the trees, it takes a long time to get branches up to a decent size. I have some rootstocks also for grafting.
My other trees are doing fine, just slowly chugging along. I see a new push coming on soon.
Based off of reading, it seems like they can make it up here. Plenty of trees are planted in Japan where it snows. Also I talked with someone who said it took the mid 20s ok.
I’ll trial it, but I can make a small cage around it while it’s young for protection.
I mean, why do people sometimes cold stratify the seeds? That would only be done with temperate fruits. Makes no sense why a tropical fruit would need to be cold stratified? I know you can germinate them without the cold, but the fact it works for some and helps with uniform germination says something. I hypothesize this tree is kinda like a persimmon or loquat. They can both be grown and fruited in tropical and subtropical climates. We will see.
