What did you do in your orchard today?

[The Porch]

So these fruit trees are old, 30, 35 yrs
This first one is an Asian Pear, the small one with white flowers next to it I don’t know what it is. It’s off the root from either the Asian Pear. We get about 12 or so pears


or the next tree an Italian Plum. We get about 10 to 15 plums.

And then we have a apple tree that put out a lot of fruit and 4 old blueberries


Now last year I was busy tending to my DH, I never got down to this area. The poor Elder Berries were neglected.
One so far has growth

I have a Fig up in the garden 5 more and a thornless blackberry.

 

[CrealCritter]

I have no idea the variety of our elderberries, they grow wild here. There are numerous varieties growing here even dwarf ones. But I look for a bush that produces large clusters and the berries ripen within a few days of eachother. That's my criteria for keeping a Elderberry or eliminating it.

But to revive them, I mow them down with mower along with asparagus, when I do the final fall mowing. I didn't mow a bush down this past fall though because I wanted to take cuttings to root from the bush. And basicly move it by propagation. A lot of that bush died back over winter. But there was enough still green in february to take cuttings for a 100 foot row, so I was happy.

When I do mow them down, they've always shot up new stronger growth from the crown, early spring. They produce berry clusters on current seasons wood, like figs do.

Jesus is Lord and Christ

 

[R2elk]

Garfield Plantation cherry blossom.

I took a cutting off of the tree in early February and stuck it in a pot. Yesterday it started blooming in the greenhouse.

 

[The Porch]

What varieties of aisan pear do you have?

Jesus is Lord and Christ

I don’t know

 

[CrealCritter]

I don’t know

Do you have just one Asian pear? If there are no others close by. Its perhaps a variety that's self-fruitful or partially self-fruitful. That could be a clue...

https://www.burntridgenursery.com/text/Asianpearpollinationchart.pdf

Jesus is Lord and Christ

 

[CrealCritter]

Garfield Plantation cherry blossom.

I took a cutting off of the tree in early February and stuck it in a pot. Yesterday it started blooming in the greenhouse.

That cherry blossom looks like the perfect blossom to pollinate itself. I didn't know this until recently. But peach blossoms are the same kind of perfect blossom and can be pollinated by wind or thumping the trunk a few times. I like it when honey bees show up to do what they do best instead.

Jesus is Lord and Christ

 

[CrealCritter]

So these fruit trees are old, 30, 35 yrs
This first one is an Asian Pear, the small one with white flowers next to it I don’t know what it is. It’s off the root from either the Asian Pear. We get about 12 or so pears
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or the next tree an Italian Plum. We get about 10 to 15 plums.
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And then we have a apple tree that put out a lot of fruit and 4 old blueberries
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Now last year I was busy tending to my DH, I never got down to this area. The poor Elder Berries were neglected.
One so far has growth
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I have a Fig up in the garden 5 more View attachment 29629 and a thornless blackberry.

Figs are easy to root from dormant cuttings. With all that wood you have the potential for a lot of trees.

Jesus is Lord and Christ

 

[The Porch]

Do you have just one Asian pear? If there are no others close by. Its perhaps a variety that's self-fruitful or partially self-fruitful. That could be a clue...

https://www.burntridgenursery.com/text/Asianpearpollinationchart.pdf

Jesus is Lord and Christ

No other pears close that I know of, of the surrounding properties

 

[R2elk]

That cherry blossom looks like the perfect blossom to pollinate itself. I didn't know this until recently. But peach blossoms are the same kind of perfect blossom and can be pollinated by wind or thumping the trunk a few times. I like it when honey bees show up to do what they do best instead.

Jesus is Lord and Christ

It is a tart cherry and is self-fruitful.

 

[InterlochenVictoryGarden]

Yesterday I went to my local Menard's and they had fruit trees on sale. After rebates they were less than $25. I picked up a Honeycrisp, Fuji, and Gala apple. A Bartlett and Kiefer pear trees. They are all standard size, and will pollinate each other. That was my mistake when I planted my last orchard. I didn't have the correct pollinators and I got little or no fruit. The were also dwarf varieties and I must have planted them too deep because I was always digging up suckers from the root stock. So I pulled them up last year and put in raised beds for Strawberries and Blueberries. I am hoping these trees do good for us in a couple years, and they are so much cheaper that buying much younger bare root trees online. I believe I paid about $50 each from Stark Bros for the ones I dug up. Multiply that by 12 and it gets real expensive to throw that in the burn pile.