Hello everyone. To view the planning process I went through for my new backyard orchard, check out that here: kzitem.info/news/bejne/0WiF0Kx8gqqhraQ
@howardfowler2255
7 ай бұрын
I finally found a m or l comprehensive video that checks all the boxes on what this zone 7a fruit lover should be planting or not planting for my fruit orchard. The inclusion of superior cultivars of each one is the frosting on the cake. Thanks Fig Boss for a timely video!
@RossRaddi
7 ай бұрын
Glad it was helpful!
@baneverything5580
7 ай бұрын
Tie long strips of emergency mylar blankets on bamboo poles above your fruit and berries to scare the birds. The slightest breeze makes it fly around making startling noises.
@youngbuck5009
7 ай бұрын
Love these types of videos from you. The Marionberry has to be one of your best recommendations. It ripens for me right after the strawberries, honeyberry, goumi come to an end and everyone who tries one from my yard is blown away. It’s a top 3 fruit for me.
@d.s.5820
7 ай бұрын
You can take advantage of birds and squirrels love of mulberries. Some people plant mulberry for them because they prefer the mulberries to whatever else is fruiting at the same time. Saves your cherries. Animals will often concentrate on their preferred food when available and ignore another. Chandler blueberry is great for size and flavor, blue ray is great for flavor. Careful of autumn olive, it’s depressingly invasive. My land is a former farm field and someone had planted autumn olive at some point and the waterfront is just riddled with walls of autumn olive.
@bss104
7 ай бұрын
I’ve been grafting multiple pear varieties onto my Bradford pear tree over the last 5 years. I have at least 8 varieties growing on it and am going to start grafting new varieties onto the previous grafts. I leave the previous year’s Bradford wood growth alone until after it flowers in the spring (as it helps pollinate my grafted varieties), after which those branches get pruned, eliminating the spread of the notoriously invasive Bradford. The pear variety I am most impressed with has been the Shinko Asian pear. It was loaded with fruit only the second season after grafting and has been loaded every year since. It doesn’t seem to be affected by fire blight or other disease pressures…so winter pruning and fruit thinning is all it needs from me. But the thing I’m most impressed with is that basically once they reach full size (early August for me in 6b) they are edible despite still being green. Not just edible…at this stage they are crisp and sweet-tart, better than a honey crisp apple in my opinion. And then I harvest a few every day over an entire 5-6 week period as they ripen to a golden color, honey sweet and softer in texture. I never knew pears could be harvested in this way…maybe it’s a common characteristic of Asian pears? But for all the success I’ve had grafting pears and apples I’ve had zero luck grafting onto my red haven peach tree over the last several years. Every year I try and graft an Indian Free and an Elberta onto it and every year both grafts fail. Not giving up yet but I have sacrificed a ton of red haven peaches trying to get these grafts to take. I really want an Indian Free and I don’t have room for a second peach tree. Anyway, I appreciate all of the great info!
@NIP345
6 ай бұрын
Bud grafts?
@bss104
6 ай бұрын
Bark graft
@katiepuckett573
6 ай бұрын
The orange Phoenix Tears Goji berries are pretty good. I bought mine from One Green World when it was in fruit.
@ofrecentvintage
7 ай бұрын
Your description of the Early Blush apricot was mouthwatering omg! I'm going to look for that one. 🍑
@Alladin-n5j
7 ай бұрын
I've never experienced any difficulties in South Australia with stone fruits. Japanese black plums are the best. White peach is my favourite. South Australia produces the best grapes and wine in the world, it leaves France Spain and Portugal for dead, because we have the best climate and soil for wine , French winemakers have tasted the wine from the Barossa valley and have stated this.
@troypriddythr
7 ай бұрын
autumn olive needs a good frost or two on them to be good.. taste alot like cranberry...
@denissesheartyhomestead
7 ай бұрын
i appreciate detailed videos like this one. currently looking at varieties for my cold hardy food forest i am planting zone 7a. look forward to trying some of this varieties
@RossRaddi
7 ай бұрын
Glad it was helpful!
@saintmaxmedia2423
7 ай бұрын
black currant is my the very best fruit for jam. It is absolutely astounding. Eating fresh, not so much. Eva
@petekooshian5595
7 ай бұрын
Autumn Olive is definitely like Goumi, but it does tend to have a fairly astringent flavor. One trick is to wait until after your first frost because they get considerably sweeter!
@ceoitachi2117
6 ай бұрын
Ross, love the videos. Long time viewer here. Just wanted to say, I’m not offended by the name of a peach variety 😂
@PepperStars-x4k
5 ай бұрын
Blackboy peach is now called Sanguine peach in NZ, at least.
@baneverything5580
7 ай бұрын
I made horrible acidic wine from 3 gallons of goji berries. I`ll never plant one. It was a very tart, slightly sweet red variety, but more ornamental than anything else. I guess they have vit c. But I grow greens year round loaded with that, so. I`m not attempting blueberries unless I get them in person with a guarantee. I got dizzy trying to figure out which varieties need to be planted together to get fruit. I have wild huckleberries here so I`ll stick with those to avoid more headaches.
@baneverything5580
7 ай бұрын
I have an odd variety of wild blackberries here...a 100 ft long patch on the western side of my yard. Some are huge and great and others small and bitter until fully ripe. So I ordered a wine making kit for the bad ones. I`m getting cuttings from the best two and starting a patch. They`re good even when red. But the local squirrels, possums, raccoons, and birds know this too. There was an abundance last year anyway plus I pruned them to greatly increase production. I`m still eating the ones in the freezer. I want apples and pears but I also want trees that produce by 2nd year and decided to focus on those for now because of limited space on a 130x130 lot although there are other open spaces nearby on family land. I got 2 Pineapple Guava trees to try right next to my camper so I can hopefully rescue them from the next record freeze, 8 more figs, and 5 mulberry if the broken one survives, plus 10 strawberry plants. My Chokeberry seeds were duds, of course, and my Peruvian Gooseberry, so I ordered from a better seller. Lots of scams lately. My Celeste fig trees don`t look like rooted cuttings but tiny little 4 inch bushes with stems and multiple branches the size of toothpicks with mini leaves. So I have no clue what I`ve got. I hope they aren`t the cell clones I`ve been hearing about that won`t fruit for many years. I guess I need to order more from somebody else. My sister promised to get cuttings from someone she knows but "forgot" 5 times. But she hates fruit so why bother, eh. After moving back to this region and seeing the scary "substances" situation plaguing the area I decided to isolate myself from people after what I escaped from before.
@j.m.b.greengardens968
7 ай бұрын
Quince. I have never had the opportunity to raise them, but of those I have used boughten, some are intensely fragrant and others are fruit-shaped cardboard. Since here in the U.S. they are a largely unfamiliar fruit, producers do not have a lot of incentive to raise them, or to raise the finest flavored varieties to the peak of flavor. I suspect it is rather like the case with the peaches (and to a lesser extent, tomatoes) one finds in groceries - they are harvested green as grass and hard as rocks for shipping tolerance and shelf-life, and folks who have never tasted a properly ripe peach continue to buy them. Provided you are willing to go to the bother of making preserves, perhaps you might consider seeking out a variety or two known for its fragrance and flavor, raise some, look up some Spanish and Portuguese recipes for quince preserves (membrillo and marmelada respectively) and make a batch or two. It might change your mind..... Or not!
@baneverything5580
7 ай бұрын
There are dozens of wild muscadine vines here. Squirrels carry away all the green ones. Fox squirrels never did this but these new tiny invaders get everything including green figs, peaches, plums, etc, and they`ve decimated the native squirrel population.
@evanborge494
7 ай бұрын
I have tried a lot of differnet blueberrys since I live in BC where blueberrys are produced a lot and some of the best verities ive tried are Buecrop which is the best for large, good tasting and very productive blueberry. Patriot which is a more tart blueberry, and my 2 favourite are duke which is a sweeter tastint type similar to Bluecrop, and the sweetest of all is June. June produces smaller darker colored blueberrys that taste super sweet and rich almost like a plum.
@RossRaddi
7 ай бұрын
Try draper. I've got all of those and Draper is a notch higher in flavor.
@petekooshian5595
7 ай бұрын
Skillcult's apple called "Cherub" is supposed to be a pretty good red fleshed one! I have some open pollinated seeds of that one.
@RossRaddi
7 ай бұрын
It's on my list!
@Lochness19
7 ай бұрын
What pawpaw do you recommend for the limit of its range? They only ripen at the very end of the growing season in October here, and are winters can be cold as well (zone 4/5). This winter it only got down to 0F but it was the mildest ever, most winters it will get down to -10F, and once or twice per decade it might reach -20F.
@RossRaddi
7 ай бұрын
I'm not sure. Google around for early ripening varieties. There's got to be better information than what I can give you.
@petekooshian5595
7 ай бұрын
It's interesting that you say goji is inedible to you because in that old video you said that other variety was quite good so you must've changed your mind a bit?
@RossRaddi
7 ай бұрын
My consensus eventually changed to Goji is a worse tasting version of a pepper that requires processing. In order to eat it and enjoy it's health benefits, I will grow it again at some point, but I will need to experiment with processing it. Like the black currant, quince, and others I mentioned they're not something you eat fresh on purpose.
@paul.1337
7 ай бұрын
Have you tried growing any almonds/hardy almonds, hazelnut/filbert, or olives? I was just starting to look into those this year. I'm going to try growing Thomasville this year. I ordered scones of that and some kumquats.
@RossRaddi
7 ай бұрын
No olives. It's too cold here and they take too long to fruit. No plans for nuts yet. Not enough room, but hazelnuts and chestnuts will be the first I plant. You might want to look into Rutger's hazelnut program.
@Flyingbackslapp
6 ай бұрын
A lot of these names sounds suspicious lol I can tell how uncomfortable you were with saying some of that, but it’s all good! I love your videos. Much love from zone 7A Connecticut.
@paul.1337
7 ай бұрын
New Zealand Black is the less questionable name. I just got a Scion in the mail yesterday. There's also some non-russeted Asian pears that look really good. Magness take like seven years to fruit. It's the Northern Spy of pears. I ordered a Lucy Glo tree back in November, it was supposed to ship two weeks ago, and now it's backordered until next year. So I get to contact their support to cancel. Lucy Rose is kind of trash. I got a Mountain Rose/Airlie's Red Flesh Scion, so I may just go with that. I love the taste of the red flesh, too.
@RossRaddi
7 ай бұрын
I did read that recently, Paul. I wish I knew sooner, ha. I put a lot of research back into apples. Ordered Chestnut and Wickson. Both crabs. I'm curious to see if they have less problems with great flavor like advertised.
@tylerpollard7449
7 ай бұрын
@@RossRaddi I have a chestnut crab, love the flavor.
@jamesfrederick.
7 ай бұрын
yo this guys dope
@mariomene2051
6 ай бұрын
From having looked in to Pawpaw, there really is supposed to be "a whole world" of flavors.
@RossRaddi
6 ай бұрын
Where can I learn about this?
@mariomene2051
6 ай бұрын
@@RossRaddi I Googled it and found lots of different sites on the matter--eg, KYSUDOTedu/academics/college-ahnr/school-of-anr/pawpaw/table-3-pawpaw-cultivars.php
@mariomene2051
6 ай бұрын
@@RossRaddi There is a lot of discussion I read, for instance: "Cultivated paw paws have a wide range of flavor and texture profiles. On the one end there is nearly white flesh with simple sweet tones, and on the other nearly orange colored flesh with rich complex aromatic notes. Everybody has their preferred spectrum, I’m the kind of guy who loves fruits like durian so I prefer the richer complex cultivars. Cultivars on the sweeter end are: Shenandoah, Mango, and Sue. Cultivars on the richer side: Susquehanna, PA Golden, and Sunflower. A sweet spot in the middle is Allegheny." "Wabash is my hands down favorite and it has a thick creamy consistency. The raw flavor notes remind me of cotton candy and tupelo honey. It gets cloying if you eat too much though and is the sweetest pawpaw I've had with a strong lingering aftertaste. The Susquehanna and Tallahatchie you mention are my other 2 favorites. I think Susquehanna is super tropical tasting with banana/mango notes when raw. When cooked I thought it had a caramel like flavor. Tallahatchie is mild in flavor and sweetness, and I think it would be a good all purpose pawpaw. When cooked it had some butter/caramel/mixed tropical fruit flavor. It’s crazy how different they all taste raw and cooked. I’ve used raw Tallahatchie mixed with Overleese (another mild flavored pawpaw) in a custard base ice cream that turned out great. Overleese’s flavor is basic compared to others. When it is cooked it takes on a potato like texture that I think would be interesting as a sweet potato substitute in pies but its nowhere as good as the other 3. Also, as a warning Shenandoah is the worst pawpaw I’ve ever had. Not sure if it was a bad year but it was bitter and gamey. When cooked it was putrid. I also think Pennsylvania Golden and Prolific are bland and not worth it, but I’m sure someone likes them."
@mariomene2051
6 ай бұрын
@@RossRaddi "Based on university-performed taste tests and anecdotal info I've pieced together from forums on the internet, Allegheny, Tallahatchie, Shenandoah, and NC-1 cultivars all consistently rank highly, with KSU-Chappell and Susquehanna also showing up as people's favorites quite often but not performing as consistently in taste-tests (due to both having a stronger pawpaw flavor that some of us love, despite others preferring more mild cultivars like Tallahatchie and Shenandoah). In my experience, the Peterson varieties have performed and tasted great. I personally have Allegheny, Shenandoah, NC-1, Rappahannock, PA Golden-1, and Sunflower trees, and (excluding the Rappahannock which has not fruited yet and PA Golden-1 which can sometimes have bitter notes) they all have tasted great."
@spencerlincoln2428
7 ай бұрын
I wonder how early blush compares to Harcot which is very easy to find here
@RossRaddi
7 ай бұрын
I'm not sure. It's a very juicy apricot. I ordered Sugar Pearls just last week for this reason.
@saintmaxmedia2423
7 ай бұрын
I get tons of elderberry flowers, but no berries, birds eat them all :( Eva
@lornabaker4039
7 ай бұрын
Mix dried elderberry flowers with an equal amount of dried peppermint leaves for a wonderful tea during flu season. :)
@vintageme298
7 ай бұрын
Thimble berry !
@RossRaddi
7 ай бұрын
How would you describe the eating experience? I've debated growing this one for years.
@vintageme298
7 ай бұрын
@@RossRaddi Since you like raspberries I thought you might like thimbleberries. That's what they remind me of just a bit milder. They are quite a bit softer too.
@vintageme298
7 ай бұрын
The big thing for me was producing fruit in heavy shade area. I have mine on the northeast side of my shop and they do well there.
@vintageme298
7 ай бұрын
Sorry last thing I promise, I'm in TN zone 7b
@petekooshian5595
7 ай бұрын
@@RossRaddiThimbles have a very similar flavor to raspberries but it's got a sort of zing that isn't there in normal raspberries. They're thornless, large canes and the flavor is INSANELY popular up in the northern peninsula of Michigan. It almost has a "warm" type of flavor that's hard to describe. Pretty good though, I think they're worth growing 🤷
@couchalmighty
4 ай бұрын
Would be very helpful if the title mentioned the grow zones. Because for me, for example, this list is useless as none of these grow in Florida...
@RossRaddi
4 ай бұрын
It's in the description. That's also not true.
@couchalmighty
4 ай бұрын
@@RossRaddi what exactly isn't true? Did you try growing peaches in Miami?
@patriciakane764
7 ай бұрын
Where is a good source of fruit plants that is NOT so sky high in price??
@chucknorisclone
7 ай бұрын
This doesn’t directly answer your question but I have started trading things with people I work with. You’d be surprised what just asking others in your area can get you. I also check Craig’s list and FB marketplace
@paul.1337
7 ай бұрын
There's nurseries that aren't as crazy expensive. Ross shows Adams County Nursery in the video which is one, but they have a five tree minimum.
@paul.1337
7 ай бұрын
Buying rootstock, scions and grafting is also dirt cheap (like $10/tree), but takes a year or two longer.
@RossRaddi
7 ай бұрын
Ediblelandscaping offers smaller plants at cheaper prices.
@will2913
7 ай бұрын
You would have to be more specific on what you are looking for, but edible landscaping is a good overall choice for plants that do well on the east coast. They are a great nursery and I really recommend visiting in person if you ever have the chance. For berries I’d recommend going bare-root from burpee, Indiana berry, or nourse farms). If looking for citrus, Georgia grown citrus and McKenzie farms are great. One green world are great, especially for their selection, but are pricey. Grow organic/Peaceful Valley are fantastic, but can also be pricey depending on what you are looking for.
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