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CC's Fruits, Veggies & Food 2023
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Been waiting for the last bench grafted pear to break bud, today was the day 
Mainly whip and tongue grafts but there may be a cleft graft or two in there. I'll baby sit them like the other grafted trees and set them out after they go dormant.
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Mainly whip and tongue grafts but there may be a cleft graft or two in there. I'll baby sit them like the other grafted trees and set them out after they go dormant. Jesus is Lord and Christ
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I don't know if this is the same kind of grafting, but my dad did a lot of experimental fruit tree grafting in his garden. The coolest tree he grafted was an apple tree with 6 different apple varieties!!!Been waiting for the last bench grafted pear to break bud, today was the day
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I like your dad already I just did a 6 variety apple this year, 7 if you count the crab apples produced from the rootsock.
March 2024 after pruning and grafting.
May 23 2024, it's since kind of exploded with new branch growth. But that's OK... I'll prune it and graft more varieties onto it next year. I would like to eventually graft every apple variety we have in the orchard on to this tree.
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Pear and cherry grafts from early spring. I had a stella cherry graft die because I got sloppy with the pruners, pruning back to all but a centeral leader. So I just regrafted a stella scion back on to the rootstock, it's now flowering, so that graft has took.
A couple of the cherries have taken off after I pruned to a centeral leader. I'm hopeful, if I do a good job baby sitting them over summer that I can plant them in the orchard this fall, after the go dormant. I look at it as motivation to be a good baby sitter I'm beginning to understand why a nursery is called a nursery.
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A couple of the cherries have taken off after I pruned to a centeral leader. I'm hopeful, if I do a good job baby sitting them over summer that I can plant them in the orchard this fall, after the go dormant. I look at it as motivation to be a good baby sitter
I'm beginning to understand why a nursery is called a nursery.Jesus is Lord and Christ
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Pictures of tank taken today.
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Tank is starting to get his big boy teeth 
. I cant get an accurate weight because our silly electric scale results in E. But he's every bit as heavy as a 50lb sack of feed. He'll be 22 weeks old Monday.
He's most definitely my buddy.
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. I cant get an accurate weight because our silly electric scale results in E. But he's every bit as heavy as a 50lb sack of feed. He'll be 22 weeks old Monday.He's most definitely my buddy.
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Little from this growing season.
Grape vines are doing well. Once they grew out of the grow tubes I had some not so green and lush leaves. I checked the soil PH with my calibrated PH meter. It was 6.8 which is a little high for grapes so I adjusted to around 6.2 with sulfur and that solved that issue.
These are my best two growers and have far exceeded first year establish. I have 1 that has not reached the bottom wire and the rest are at various stages inbetween. I'll prune them back late winter and continue to hope for some grapes next year.
This year's grafted cherry and pear trees have done really well. I gave a montmorency cherry and southern bartlet pear away, they went to south carolina. I'll plant these in the orchard after the go dormant later this fall.
I ordered 8 differnt hardy common fig varieties as rooted plugs and bay laurel cuttings to try and root. The figs are tiny (newly rooted cuttings), I potted them in coffee cans and set them outside in a kiddie pool. They are putting on new leaves slowly. I expected this since I got the September 11th, very late in the growing season. I'll bring them inside when they go dormant and I may plant them in the ground after the last frost in spring or I might transplant them in larger pots and baby sit them over next years growing season, I haven't decided yet. The good thing about figs is they fruit on current growing season wood. I have a mentor in tennessee (zone 7B) who is giving me advise on how to grow them. I'm in zone 7a so I'm learning from someone close to my zone.
Bay laurel I have indoors on my seeding table. Compact florescents are doing a good job at keeping them between 72 to 85 degrees F which is optional temperature to root bay laurel cuttings. I'll know in a couple of weeks if they have rooted or not. It takes about 30 days to root a bay laurel cutting.
Here's bay laurel rooting instructions I recived with the cuttings. May help someone who needs them. Sorry I got it wet but hopefully still readable.
Here's our martha washington 4x100 foot asparagus patch. I'm kind of excited... this spring we get to harvest at will. This heirloom variety tastes nothing like modern asparagus varieties, it's
Farm Babe, harvested goldenrod and has it drying.
Its been busy... there is so much more I could post but I'll spare all you all.
Hope you have a blessed evening.
Jesus is Lord and Christ
Grape vines are doing well. Once they grew out of the grow tubes I had some not so green and lush leaves. I checked the soil PH with my calibrated PH meter. It was 6.8 which is a little high for grapes so I adjusted to around 6.2 with sulfur and that solved that issue.
These are my best two growers and have far exceeded first year establish. I have 1 that has not reached the bottom wire and the rest are at various stages inbetween. I'll prune them back late winter and continue to hope for some grapes next year.
This year's grafted cherry and pear trees have done really well. I gave a montmorency cherry and southern bartlet pear away, they went to south carolina. I'll plant these in the orchard after the go dormant later this fall.
I ordered 8 differnt hardy common fig varieties as rooted plugs and bay laurel cuttings to try and root. The figs are tiny (newly rooted cuttings), I potted them in coffee cans and set them outside in a kiddie pool. They are putting on new leaves slowly. I expected this since I got the September 11th, very late in the growing season. I'll bring them inside when they go dormant and I may plant them in the ground after the last frost in spring or I might transplant them in larger pots and baby sit them over next years growing season, I haven't decided yet. The good thing about figs is they fruit on current growing season wood. I have a mentor in tennessee (zone 7B) who is giving me advise on how to grow them. I'm in zone 7a so I'm learning from someone close to my zone.
Bay laurel I have indoors on my seeding table. Compact florescents are doing a good job at keeping them between 72 to 85 degrees F which is optional temperature to root bay laurel cuttings. I'll know in a couple of weeks if they have rooted or not. It takes about 30 days to root a bay laurel cutting.
Here's bay laurel rooting instructions I recived with the cuttings. May help someone who needs them. Sorry I got it wet but hopefully still readable.
Here's our martha washington 4x100 foot asparagus patch. I'm kind of excited... this spring we get to harvest at will. This heirloom variety tastes nothing like modern asparagus varieties, it's
Farm Babe, harvested goldenrod and has it drying.
Its been busy... there is so much more I could post but I'll spare all you all.
Hope you have a blessed evening.
Jesus is Lord and Christ
