I just harvested my first batch of Anna and Dorsett Golden apples. Those are my only two varieties that have produced any fruit so far (year two). I'm considerably further south than you. I also planted Fujis and a pink lady. The Fujis produced a few flower blossoms this spring but not much. No fruit set. No flowers blossomed on the pink lady. Earlier this spring, I planted a couple of King Davids, Williams Pride, Wickson Crab, and Ashmead's Kernel. I know the Ashmead's isn't likely to make any fruit but figured I might as well give it a shot. Interestingly, the William's pride and Wickson crab flowered and produced a couple of tiny fruits about 3 weeks after I planted them. But they came from upstate New York, so they definitely got a bunch of chill hours. Thanks for sharing your fruit growing stuff! Its been hard finding Texas fruit growing info.
Actually I would say it's less work now than it was starting out. The trees are more established now and can handle a little bit less water except for the apple trees. I guess I should have gave them a little bit more water 🙂
I'm so sorry for your loss. When I first started my home orchard, I seriously look into growing apples, and realized they would just be too frustrating in my climate. I ended up focusing on growing local strains of plums and pears. The plums have paid off the best, but it was a huge learning curve with finding the right strains and correcting pollination issues.
I think you've had a lot of luck with plums haven't you? If you're the same one, I'm thinking of Marcus toole with your heirloom plums, am I right in thinking that I definitely agree that native is a far better option I just started with Chickasaw plums in the are pretty consistent but plums in general. I do have a lot better luck with here.
@@texasfruitgrower I have had luck with them once I gave up on growing the ones that the nurseries and started grafting my own. Most of the strains the commercial nurseries carry don't work here, and even the ones that do are often grafted onto rootstock that doesn't work here. The chickasaw cultivar rootstock allows me to grow varieties I couldn't otherwise grow.
I completely understand what you're saying. Most the tested varieties for any type of fruit are cultivated over there in California. We do have some that they cultivate here in Texas. The Texas a&m does, but even then the types of soils they grow them in are different than the ones I grow in so native does make a lot more sense because there's such a vast variety of growing situations throughout the United States that there's probably no variety that can fit every single situation for growers, so I'm totally with you on that.
It is awful what the borers did to your apples! Always appreciate your vids. I think you are the only fruit tree grower in Texas who shares observations.
Yes definitely a let down with the trees. But I have noticed Texas doesn't have a lot of growers that share their experience for whatever reason. Glad you find them useful!
Hate to hear about your loss. Pest come in many flavors here in central Texas. I have a mass infection of leaf cutter ants and pocket gophers. The front acreage of my my property is also full of oak wilt, which has hit a dozen fruit trees. The leaf cutters love fruit trees and the pocket gophers will eat every fig root they can find. I lost about 50 fruit trees over 3 years. Best luck has been with pear trees.
Wow! I had no idea there was leaf cut rants over here in Central Texas. That's a scary one. It seems like we have all kinds of ants over here and none of them are good. Why can't the ants get the bores. But in all seriousness, there's a ton of problems that we have to deal with here in Central Texas,
So sorry about your Apple trees. I remembered doing well. I let mine grow and only prune crossing branches. Plums are putting out good fruit, but I never get the because of the curculio. The only apples that’s doing well is Ein Shemer and Anna. I’m surprised you’re not doing Korean pears
It happens, they were great trees, so I was really surprised they went down so easy. I saw s picture of you apple tree that is huge! I thought about adding those pears but I think jujubes are something I'd try to add next.
Im also in central Texas. Have a back yard food forest. Pink Lady apples seem to be pretty adaptive to the summers here. Mines at the 3 year mark but seems to be doing good 👍 Great seeing another central Texas Gardner.
I definitely agree. It can be a lot easier in other states. Quite a few bugs that don't belong here. But we do have decent chill and long growing season.
@@texasfruitgrower I used to live in Murchison over there by Athens and about 20 min west of Tyler. I knew a old boy who was growin apples and I'd always pull over and talk to him. He had the only little fruit tree orchard I'd seen in the area. He said it was too hot for fruit trees. He had to water a lot. That's where my knowledge of the topic comes from. From the old boy sayin it was too hot in Texas for it. All I know about is cattle lol. :)
@@ascendant95 sounds about right. I always heard there was no way you could grow apples in Texas. I did pretty good up until about last year obviously, but I see no reason to quit now. Other than that I would say mulch lots of mulch that cuts the watering way down, but in hot summers. There's not a lot you can do
@@texasfruitgrower The last thing I want to do is discourage you. That's why I was saying the only knowledge I have, if you want to call it that, was that old boy use to tell me it's too hot in Texas for it. He mighta been wrong for all we know lol. He was mostly growin apples. He had about a 2 acre orchard. Where we was at he said it was bad because it was too hot for apples and too cold for oranges. You ever try a mulberry tree? I got a real nice one up here in Oklahoma!
@@ascendant95 Yes, I have a few mulberry trees they seem to multiply like crazy. And no worries about it. People always have different opinions and I didn't see It as discouraging at all. I just try to let people know what I can do here and so they can take what I do and make modifications to it as they need to and decide on what to plant and what they actually can grow here whether or not that comes across. Well I guess it's up to the viewer but I'm just hopeful to help some people out
I hear IV organics. I supposed to be pretty good at stopping against tree bores. I've used a whitewash using interior paint and water but I'm not very consistent with that whitewash. I've got too many trees for that
Have you tried planting pollinator flowers & insectry plants in your orchard & around the apple trees? Try onion, garlic chives, marigolds, herbs & fragrant stargazer lily around base of the trees. The scent confuses the pests & they leave. The blooms bring in the bees. Just a suggestion from permaculture food forests. Good luck. I appreciate your sharing of the type of cultivars, their flavors & how they are doing. Thank you.🌳🍀
@@quirkycottageshenanigans9003 I have tried using this from that before, just not lately. It probably would help if I did more of that. I liked using clover. But I should do more of that. I appreciate it!
@@texasfruitgrower I am trialing different types of clover in the rows between the fruit trees to see which works best in my Hunt Co permaculture orchard.(North of Dallas.) I put in the chives, garlic& onions at planting for a little pest protection until I can get fencing installed.🤞
The dapple supreme is a really good piece of fruit . Not the most vigorous tree but one I really like. It's pollinated by geo pride and burgundy. But most so geo pride
@@texasfruitgrower Thank you so much for the information. This is my first year growing Dapple Supreme, and I was worried because I don't have the flavor Rosa. I do have the burgundy plum, and I have been hand pollinating.like crazy lol. For some reason my Dapple Supreme was last to bloom. I live in Zone 9 in Tucson Arizona.
@@nicholasfigueroa6792 when it comes to bloom times down here, the flavorosa is the earliest I have and is definitely too early for the dapple supreme. The dapple dandy seems to be the last pluot I have the flower but that one definitely goes right in line with the geopride and both are really good varieties as well as the burgundy plum. That one is crazy productive
@@texasfruitgrower thank you so much for the good information. It's because of your videos I got so interested in plums and Plouts, and why I got a burgundy plum. Which is mind blowing how many blooms it has.
Yes I have. And they have produced they're quite flavorful. I learned that if you have a male flower it makes a persimmon have seeds, but if you don't have a male they will still produce without seeds. But I do have a few persimmons. They don't seem to like the heat too much
@@MakePeace123I'll take note of that. I know most of mine are on I think. Khaki and then another one I got from another grower around here. Is doing really well but I forget what kind it is. I'll have to look it up later today.
Thanks for sharing. I've communicated with you on the group page. Good to see some footage. That weedy geranium I made the mistake of letting it go to seed last year. This year (now I have been pulling that trash out as much as I can before it goes to seed again.
Yes I know you from the page. And you are right. Some things just take over. When I added loads of mulch 2 years ago and that kept stuff down throughout the year. But now stuff has reseeded it's shelf in the mulch. Hopefully you can take control of the geranium.
You can treat them with very small amounts of dinotefuran. Just a tiny amount, if that doesnt fix it use a tiny bit more. Eventually it will absorb in the tree roots and cause boring insect death. The problem is they are invasive, and its like a buffet of the most perfect abundant and easy thing, so, the dinotefuran will kill them, and you can keep from killing bees by using low amounts, out of times when pollination occurs. Just use a gallon of rain water, and just a few granules of the posion, you can find it, its called safari, Use just less than 10 granules per gallon of water, per tree, and it will kill the invasive insects. Normal insects no so much because they are more adapted. The invasive ones are easy to kill when you do basal application, or root watering method. It helps our oak trees that have lots of nasty boring beetles, they end up causing bacterial and fungal infections from the open holes and water seepage and accumulation of rotten beetle crap. The dinotefuran works on these, never do it when pollination occurs to help bees. I do basal treatments, because we have many trees and not alot of time and help. You could even plant weeds like cilantro around the base of the tree to deter the bettles with smell. This can also work, but it might be more effort. IDK you could try both on opposite sides of the property to see which work. Cilatro seeds, or dinotefuran. Dont use imidacopralyid, it is a bad chemical I do proclaim.
I just harvested my first batch of Anna and Dorsett Golden apples. Those are my only two varieties that have produced any fruit so far (year two). I'm considerably further south than you.
I also planted Fujis and a pink lady. The Fujis produced a few flower blossoms this spring but not much. No fruit set. No flowers blossomed on the pink lady.
Earlier this spring, I planted a couple of King Davids, Williams Pride, Wickson Crab, and Ashmead's Kernel. I know the Ashmead's isn't likely to make any fruit but figured I might as well give it a shot. Interestingly, the William's pride and Wickson crab flowered and produced a couple of tiny fruits about 3 weeks after I planted them. But they came from upstate New York, so they definitely got a bunch of chill hours.
Thanks for sharing your fruit growing stuff! Its been hard finding Texas fruit growing info.
thankx for the update
looks like its becoming lots of work lol
Actually I would say it's less work now than it was starting out. The trees are more established now and can handle a little bit less water except for the apple trees. I guess I should have gave them a little bit more water 🙂
I'm so sorry for your loss. When I first started my home orchard, I seriously look into growing apples, and realized they would just be too frustrating in my climate. I ended up focusing on growing local strains of plums and pears. The plums have paid off the best, but it was a huge learning curve with finding the right strains and correcting pollination issues.
I think you've had a lot of luck with plums haven't you? If you're the same one, I'm thinking of Marcus toole with your heirloom plums, am I right in thinking that I definitely agree that native is a far better option I just started with Chickasaw plums in the are pretty consistent but plums in general. I do have a lot better luck with here.
@@texasfruitgrower I have had luck with them once I gave up on growing the ones that the nurseries and started grafting my own. Most of the strains the commercial nurseries carry don't work here, and even the ones that do are often grafted onto rootstock that doesn't work here. The chickasaw cultivar rootstock allows me to grow varieties I couldn't otherwise grow.
I completely understand what you're saying. Most the tested varieties for any type of fruit are cultivated over there in California. We do have some that they cultivate here in Texas. The Texas a&m does, but even then the types of soils they grow them in are different than the ones I grow in so native does make a lot more sense because there's such a vast variety of growing situations throughout the United States that there's probably no variety that can fit every single situation for growers, so I'm totally with you on that.
@@texasfruitgrower FYI, I'm about to post an orchard tourer. The plums aren't ripe yet, but the early varieties are only 3 to 4 weeks away.
@@coolmantoole awesome. I'll definitely watch it I love orchard tours!
It is awful what the borers did to your apples! Always appreciate your vids. I think you are the only fruit tree grower in Texas who shares observations.
Yes definitely a let down with the trees. But I have noticed Texas doesn't have a lot of growers that share their experience for whatever reason. Glad you find them useful!
Found some on a peach the other day luckily caught it early
That's good. You caught early! They can definitely be devastating
Hate to hear about your loss. Pest come in many flavors here in central Texas. I have a mass infection of leaf cutter ants and pocket gophers. The front acreage of my my property is also full of oak wilt, which has hit a dozen fruit trees. The leaf cutters love fruit trees and the pocket gophers will eat every fig root they can find. I lost about 50 fruit trees over 3 years. Best luck has been with pear trees.
Wow! I had no idea there was leaf cut rants over here in Central Texas. That's a scary one. It seems like we have all kinds of ants over here and none of them are good. Why can't the ants get the bores. But in all seriousness, there's a ton of problems that we have to deal with here in Central Texas,
3 or 4 weeks ago Lows in San Antonio on Austin Hwy had Mollies delicious 7 feet tall.
That's a really good apple!
So sorry about your Apple trees. I remembered doing well. I let mine grow and only prune crossing branches. Plums are putting out good fruit, but I never get the because of the curculio. The only apples that’s doing well is Ein Shemer and Anna. I’m surprised you’re not doing Korean pears
It happens, they were great trees, so I was really surprised they went down so easy. I saw s picture of you apple tree that is huge! I thought about adding those pears but I think jujubes are something I'd try to add next.
Im also in central Texas. Have a back yard food forest. Pink Lady apples seem to be pretty adaptive to the summers here. Mines at the 3 year mark but seems to be doing good 👍
Great seeing another central Texas Gardner.
That's great to hear, my pink lady didn't make it but I think that was planting location. Best of luck to you this summer!
@@texasfruitgrower you too! Get that irrigation ready haha
Fruit trees ain't easy in Texas. They take a lot more care than in other places. Texas has them perfect cattle and pasture conditions though!!
I definitely agree. It can be a lot easier in other states. Quite a few bugs that don't belong here. But we do have decent chill and long growing season.
@@texasfruitgrower I used to live in Murchison over there by Athens and about 20 min west of Tyler. I knew a old boy who was growin apples and I'd always pull over and talk to him. He had the only little fruit tree orchard I'd seen in the area. He said it was too hot for fruit trees. He had to water a lot. That's where my knowledge of the topic comes from. From the old boy sayin it was too hot in Texas for it. All I know about is cattle lol. :)
@@ascendant95 sounds about right. I always heard there was no way you could grow apples in Texas. I did pretty good up until about last year obviously, but I see no reason to quit now. Other than that I would say mulch lots of mulch that cuts the watering way down, but in hot summers. There's not a lot you can do
@@texasfruitgrower The last thing I want to do is discourage you. That's why I was saying the only knowledge I have, if you want to call it that, was that old boy use to tell me it's too hot in Texas for it. He mighta been wrong for all we know lol. He was mostly growin apples. He had about a 2 acre orchard. Where we was at he said it was bad because it was too hot for apples and too cold for oranges. You ever try a mulberry tree? I got a real nice one up here in Oklahoma!
@@ascendant95 Yes, I have a few mulberry trees they seem to multiply like crazy. And no worries about it. People always have different opinions and I didn't see It as discouraging at all. I just try to let people know what I can do here and so they can take what I do and make modifications to it as they need to and decide on what to plant and what they actually can grow here whether or not that comes across. Well I guess it's up to the viewer but I'm just hopeful to help some people out
Jeremy does your doughnut Peach get the size you see in the stores?
No I would say they're a little bit smaller
Jeremy what are your most Productive Fruit Trees like Peaches
I lost probably 10 trees from borers, apple plum peach cherry, I now spray all my trees after bloom
I hear IV organics. I supposed to be pretty good at stopping against tree bores. I've used a whitewash using interior paint and water but I'm not very consistent with that whitewash. I've got too many trees for that
@@texasfruitgrowerIV organic comes off after rain and you know we get rain. I use a variety of poisons
Have you tried planting pollinator flowers & insectry plants in your orchard & around the apple trees? Try onion, garlic chives, marigolds, herbs & fragrant stargazer lily around base of the trees. The scent confuses the pests & they leave. The blooms bring in the bees. Just a suggestion from permaculture food forests. Good luck. I appreciate your sharing of the type of cultivars, their flavors & how they are doing. Thank you.🌳🍀
@@quirkycottageshenanigans9003 I have tried using this from that before, just not lately. It probably would help if I did more of that. I liked using clover. But I should do more of that. I appreciate it!
@@texasfruitgrower I am trialing different types of clover in the rows between the fruit trees to see which works best in my Hunt Co permaculture orchard.(North of Dallas.) I put in the chives, garlic& onions at planting for a little pest protection until I can get fencing installed.🤞
what did you sprinkle the peaches with?
Actually I gave them less attention this last year vs all the other years so maybe they're just happy I left them alone.
Hi Jeremy do your apples turn soft before they are ready for harvest mine start dropping I have Pink lady here south of san Antonio
No mine don't I look more for color and how easy they do one off the tree
How is the Daple supreme doing? What do you have it pollinated by since flavorrosa wasn't it doing so well?
The dapple supreme is a really good piece of fruit . Not the most vigorous tree but one I really like. It's pollinated by geo pride and burgundy. But most so geo pride
@@texasfruitgrower Thank you so much for the information. This is my first year growing Dapple Supreme, and I was worried because I don't have the flavor Rosa. I do have the burgundy plum, and I have been hand pollinating.like crazy lol.
For some reason my Dapple Supreme was last to bloom. I live in Zone 9 in Tucson Arizona.
@@nicholasfigueroa6792 when it comes to bloom times down here, the flavorosa is the earliest I have and is definitely too early for the dapple supreme. The dapple dandy seems to be the last pluot I have the flower but that one definitely goes right in line with the geopride and both are really good varieties as well as the burgundy plum. That one is crazy productive
@@texasfruitgrower thank you so much for the good information. It's because of your videos I got so interested in plums and Plouts, and why I got a burgundy plum. Which is mind blowing how many blooms it has.
Jermy did you ever plant any Persimmon trees they usuall produce every year once the get big enough
Yes I have. And they have produced they're quite flavorful. I learned that if you have a male flower it makes a persimmon have seeds, but if you don't have a male they will still produce without seeds. But I do have a few persimmons. They don't seem to like the heat too much
Although I do think my reply above has a lot to do with rootstock
@@texasfruitgrower what rootstock do you have for the persimmon Virginiana is best for Tx
@@MakePeace123I'll take note of that. I know most of mine are on I think. Khaki and then another one I got from another grower around here. Is doing really well but I forget what kind it is. I'll have to look it up later today.
@@texasfruitgrower if They are from California their on D Lotus rootstock does great in California in Texas not so much
Hi Jermy tree borrers killed my peach tree now I see my apple tree is dying do tree borrers effect apple trees
I had some borrer damage on a few limbs on trees that did not get enough water
For whatever reason they were really bad last year. I've heard from a lot of people that were hit pretty hard by them.
Thanks for bragging, it must be nice. I think my Florida King has died. I guess I need to double up.
I'm sorry to hear that. It's a really good peach and it's hard to find. I seen a lot of Florida princes around but no Florida king lately
Thanks for sharing. I've communicated with you on the group page. Good to see some footage. That weedy geranium I made the mistake of letting it go to seed last year. This year (now I have been pulling that trash out as much as I can before it goes to seed again.
Yes I know you from the page. And you are right. Some things just take over. When I added loads of mulch 2 years ago and that kept stuff down throughout the year. But now stuff has reseeded it's shelf in the mulch. Hopefully you can take control of the geranium.
Have you thought about planting banannas??? They grow good in wet clay.
Yes I have some. So far they haven't made it the fruit but hopefully someday.
You can treat them with very small amounts of dinotefuran. Just a tiny amount, if that doesnt fix it use a tiny bit more. Eventually it will absorb in the tree roots and cause boring insect death. The problem is they are invasive, and its like a buffet of the most perfect abundant and easy thing, so, the dinotefuran will kill them, and you can keep from killing bees by using low amounts, out of times when pollination occurs. Just use a gallon of rain water, and just a few granules of the posion, you can find it, its called safari, Use just less than 10 granules per gallon of water, per tree, and it will kill the invasive insects. Normal insects no so much because they are more adapted. The invasive ones are easy to kill when you do basal application, or root watering method.
It helps our oak trees that have lots of nasty boring beetles, they end up causing bacterial and fungal infections from the open holes and water seepage and accumulation of rotten beetle crap. The dinotefuran works on these, never do it when pollination occurs to help bees.
I do basal treatments, because we have many trees and not alot of time and help.
You could even plant weeds like cilantro around the base of the tree to deter the bettles with smell. This can also work, but it might be more effort. IDK you could try both on opposite sides of the property to see which work. Cilatro seeds, or dinotefuran. Dont use imidacopralyid, it is a bad chemical I do proclaim.
I'll definitely have to look into this. I'm not familiar with either method. But definitely worth a look.