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Plant Asian pears instead. Way better tasting and they produce like crazy. Agree on Asians also... we have those well established. Pears, plums, figs, kiwis, persimmon, apple, Key Lime, blueberry trees and bushs, thorn-less blackberrie specans et al. Adding peaches etc.... will fill in/replace some. Key Limes are out (too cold). No pawpaw?
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Planted about 8,000 fruit trees last spring........doing great.
Better to plant in the spring. Roots have a chance to develop before the winter.
Check with your state agent or the supplier.
Most tree suppliers turn off the coolers by the end of May.
Cash has planting time right. He has is wrong, but idiots find comfort in groups on this forum it appears. Ahhh, another incarnation, Scott? Orchards been in continuous operation since 1811....main house built. Small county(500 sq miles) 22,000 acres of fruit. So organic won’t work. It’s just facts........
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Plant Asian pears instead. Way better tasting and they produce like crazy. Agree on Asians also... we have those well established. Pears, plums, figs, kiwis, persimmon, apple, Key Lime, blueberry trees and bushs, thorn-less blackberrie specans et al. Adding peaches etc.... will fill in/replace some. Key Limes are out (too cold). No pawpaw? LOL... Maybe. Never thought about it. I am propagating American Chestnuts... Most will blight out and die under 12", but why not...
If you are not actively engaging EVERY enemy you encounter... you are allowing another to fight for you... and that is cowardice... plain and simple.
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Plant Asian pears instead. Way better tasting and they produce like crazy. Agree on Asians also... we have those well established. Pears, plums, figs, kiwis, persimmon, apple, Key Lime, blueberry trees and bushs, thorn-less blackberrie specans et al. Adding peaches etc.... will fill in/replace some. Key Limes are out (too cold). No pawpaw? LOL... Maybe. Never thought about it. I am propagating American Chestnuts... Most will blight out and die under 12", but why not... Some of the hybrid Chestnuts are pretty stout........ Folks love or hate pawpaws.......I love them. Those Hardy Kiwis? The berry like ones? And you can prune peach trees like a regular tree so they are easy to mow under
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Those Hardy Kiwis? The berry like ones? Correct... Need a arbor. Make it STRONG. They grow faster than Kudzu. ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/V650S0Z4/20170623-201700.jpg) ![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/FFV7xQw0/20171028-222709-1.jpg) Huge producers year 5+... Taste EXACTLY like a Jolly Rancher Sour Apple candy... EXACTLY. Gonna hard distill a few gallons this fall.
If you are not actively engaging EVERY enemy you encounter... you are allowing another to fight for you... and that is cowardice... plain and simple.
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Those Hardy Kiwis? The berry like ones? Correct... Need a arbor. Make it STRONG. They grow faster than Kudzu. Huge producers year 5+... Taste EXACTLY like a Jolly Rancher Sour Apple candy... EXACTLY. Gonna hard distill a few gallons this fall. Yup.......telephone poles for trellis and double deadman’s at the ends. .....few hundred yards of them. Lots-O-Pickin!!!!
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Planted three pawpaws four years ago. They leaf like crazy but only seem to increase in height 2-3 inches a year. No fruit yet either. Growing fruit on the Cumberland Plateau is tough. Seems like every year we get a late frost or two that kills off all the blossoms.
At least this year we expect a respectable peach, asian pear, and apple crop.
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