Fruit trees

[Allen]

Lycan, you seem to have a green thumb when it comes to this stuff. I'm like a walking bucket of roundup.

 

[Glass]

What variety of cherry tree is everyone growing?

I just purchased a dwarf romeo cherry bush, compact, self pollinating zone 2 with a high brix reading.

Last year I put in a zone 5 self pollinating pear tree and a zone 4 peach tree. I am hoping both of them did good this winter, they have buds showing up, so im sure they will just fine this year

 

[Lycanthrope]

I ordered a bunch of haskap from a propagator in canada. Most of the currants Im getting are trades from people on a gardening forum Im on. Should be getting my haskap in the mail sometime next week, ends up being about half the price of buying them retail, but need to order a bunch to make it worth while, minimum $500 order I might be talked out of a few if anyone is interested...

 

[ndlongshot]

Anyone ever grown walnut trees in ND? I'm going to give it a go this year. Collected a whole bunch of walnuts from the neighbors tree last year and put them in pots. We will see if they take.

 

[Lycanthrope]

What variety of cherry tree is everyone growing?

I just purchased a dwarf romeo cherry bush, compact, self pollinating zone 2 with a high brix reading.

Last year I put in a zone 5 self pollinating pear tree and a zone 4 peach tree. I am hoping both of them did good this winter, they have buds showing up, so im sure they will just fine this year

Im growing Passion, Carmine Jewel, Romeo, Montmorency and Evans/Bali. Ive got 2 passion and never got any fruit from either of them, they arent quite cold hardy for our area. They are growing great but the flowers die or wont pollinate well. They will be removed soon. I also have 4 large carmine jewel but 2 of them are severely encroaching on my apple trees so if anyone wants to come dig them out, you can have them for the labor of removal. If this is done before they are actively growing they should be fine to transplant to a different location. I really like carmine jewel and they produce great, not what Id consider a typical cherry flavor, but they are still really good. I havent gotten any fruit on my Juliet or Romeo yet but they arent very large, might get a few to try this year. Montmorency is mostly left for the birds and evans/bali is a smaller bush that hasnt produced much yet either, makes a nice ornamental tho. Where did you get the romeo from and what size are they?

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Anyone ever grown walnut trees in ND? I'm going to give it a go this year. Collected a whole bunch of walnuts from the neighbors tree last year and put them in pots. We will see if they take.

Black walnut is borderline hardy for our climate. Butternut is more hardy and the nuts are pretty good also. I planted some butternut seeds 2 years ago about half of them came up, so they can be grown from seed. I dont have any room for large nut trees tho so I gave them away.

 

[Glass]

Where did you get the romeo from and what size are they?

Great looking tree came in just over 2 feet tall. It had a really good root system and it was only 20 bucks with free shipping. I have it potted as I wont be able to plant it until I get some concrete poured.
https://www.springhillnursery.com/product/dwarf-romeo-cherry

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Black walnut is borderline hardy for our climate. Butternut is more hardy and the nuts are pretty good also. I planted some butternut seeds 2 years ago about half of them came up, so they can be grown from seed. I dont have any room for large nut trees tho so I gave them away.

We have a couple trees growing on our farm south of mandan, Think they have been there for 15-20 years. Some years they produce some they dont.

 

[guywhofishes]

how much for haskap?

 

[Glass]

This place also looks like it has some really interesting things for zone 3, give them a look

https://onegreenworld.com/

 

[Lycanthrope]

how much for haskap?

Id sell a few for basically half of what honeyberryusa charges, $10 each. Not sure how many Ill have available but I know I got more than I really need right now...

 

[BDub]

I planted a five foot Evan Bali cherry tree in 2012. It produced well last year. The birds got most of them so I'm prepared this year with netting. I’m pretty sure this is a zone two variety so it should do well.

 

[guywhofishes]

Id sell a few for basically half of what honeyberryusa charges, $10 each. Not sure how many Ill have available but I know I got more than I really need right now...

I’d take ten if we can figure it out.

 

[KDM]

We are going to plant more Honeyberries, Raspberries, and nanking cherries so far. I really like them, and ours are producing VERY well. We have to be real careful when it comes to temps. We get 10 degrees cooler than anywhere else as we are down in a hole. We've lost every black ice plum tree we've ever planted (5) and they are supposed to be good to minus 30 if that gives you an idea. We have identified two areas to plant trees in, but haven't decided what kinds yet. We have lots of apple and plum, but might expand our cherry numbers this year. I figure we will plant to many trees and bushes this spring while I'm digging the holes and then I'll decide those same trees and bushes weren't enough come late summer. Just like every year.

 

[guywhofishes]

Kdm - what have you determined to be best anti-deer system for young trees? Your testing grounds are brutal.

I will be planting fruit trees out west this year.

 

[Fly Carpin]

Kdm - what have you determined to be best anti-deer system for young trees? Your testing grounds are brutal.

I will be planting fruit trees out west this year.

I have a bad feeling about the responses to this post

 

[guywhofishes]

I have a bad feeling about the responses to this post

ha ha

I forgot to add sugar maples and maybe some shade trees.

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[KDM]

Hog fence without a doubt has been the best anti deer system we've tried. A picture is worth a 1000 words so here are a few. The first one here is to give you an idea of the numbers of hungry deer that have been walking by my trees. We have 150+ deer coming in every night and the trails have been pounded into the dirt. These are plum, apple, and cherry trees and deer love to eat them all.



A closer look at the hog fence and if you look closely, you can see how the deer prune the tree branches that extend outside the wire which is what I want them to do. It's good for the tree, natural, and I don't have to do it myself. (Grin)



We are adding drain tile around the bases of the trees to try to minimize rabbit and mouse damage to the bark under the snow and if we go much bigger than say 8 feet in diameter for the hog fence we add a "T" post on each side to keep the snow from crushing the fence down. Each ring of hog fence is held in place by weed barrier staples. We can move the rings if we want for weed control, but these rings are permanent structures otherwise. When the trees get to be almost full grown, I will still have a ring of fence around the trunk to keep the deer from rubbing the bark off. This system isn't too expensive and has worked for us for 7 years. After that comes my 308. (Grin) Hope this helps.

 

[guywhofishes]

thnx!

 

[MathewsZman]

But yet some "farmers" have to rely on GFP TO BRING them feed and fence . HUH !!!!!

 

[Davey Crockett]

As much as I love fruit trees I give up, Mother nature wins. Trees that are Native to the Turtle Mountains and a hardy variety of raspberry seem to do fine but that's about it. Getting the trees established is hard but that's the easy part . A warm period then a late frost prevents them bearing . Looking at the fruitless mess is finally getting to me so I took a few Apple trees out with the tractor last fall to start replacing the rows with juneberries and evergreens.

 

[lostinnd]

Are rabbits/coons/other small animals tough on young trees? I was going to fence ours with chicken wire to keep out the small critters but that hog fencing would be way easier to deal with it looks like. Just bought a house by Yankton, SD so we have a few more options for fruit trees than way up north.