fuldraw;569496 said:
Great read thanks for all the pictures and the great detail of what you have done if you have time please keep this thread going this spring and summer
Mike
Mike,
Thanks. I hope to keep it going. Here are my tree related plans for this year:
- I just finished pruning some Kieffer pear trees.
- In late Feb I plan to prune my mature female persimmon trees. I'll use the trimming from those as scions.
- TickRancher has graciously offered to send me some of his trimmings from some improved varieties.
-If the persimmon clones in the picture above actually survive, I plan to keep them in rootmaker container, increasing the size at least through this summer and I may try to keep them a second growing season before planting.
-When the sap starts to run in the spring, I plan to do the same thing as last year converting more male trees to female. I'll use both the improved variety and my common persimmon scions and keep track of each.
- After spring growth starts, I plan to take some green scions from my Tigertooth jujube trees (grown on their own rootstock) and see if I can start them as cuttings.
-I have a couple silverhill jujube trees on order. These are large and are intended to help with pollination of my existing trees.
-I'll be planting some of the elderberries I started indoors.
-I have over 100 Dunstan chestnuts I started from seed that we will be planting directly from rootmaker cells this spring.
-I have over 50 Dunstan chestnuts that I plan to keep in rootmakers all summer and plant in the fall.
This thread will focus on the persimmons, and I'll have other threads that address the other projects.
This is the year of the tree for me!
Thanks,
Jack