wdolson
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Joined: 6/28/2006 From: Near Portland, OR Status: offline
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I tried a pomegranate here. It survived the first winter, which was mild, but the next one killed it. I have two orange trees and a lemon in our greenhouse. The lemon produces, but getting the oranges to ripen correctly is tricky. I grew up in Los Angeles and we had a Santa Rosa there. It loved that climate. They grow fine here, but the springs are usually too cool to pollinate fully. Blueberries love it here, we have 5 bushes and they are all doing well. I'm surprised they do OK in Florida, I thought they were one of those crops that needed a certain amount of cold in the winter to do OK. I have two more plum trees that are bearing fruit for the first time. I looked up when I bought them, it was 2011, so this is the 4th year. The black amber plum has so much fruit on it I bought some poles to prop up the branches. Every branch has lots of large plums that are getting darker by the day. We're having an abnormally hot spring, temperatures up in the 80s and 90s F before late July are rare. The plum trees love it, but the apple trees didn't set fruit quite as well. My Pippen apple (best pie apple there is IMO) put on two apples and I was watching them. I went out there one day and they were gone. The branch they were on was on the ground. Something broke off the branch. I can't figure out what, it doesn't look like anything was trying to eat the branch. It may have been a young raccoon who got out on a branch that was too thin. The branch snapped off at the main trunk and it looks like it was a quick break, it wasn't as clean as a cut from a took, but it was pretty clean for a broken branch. I have two Honeycrisp apple trees. I've heard they are even better when allowed to fully tree ripen, but neither of them have produced yet. One won't grow because the deer keep nibbling at it. They have turned it into a bonsai. The other is getting pretty big, but it hasn't even bloomed yet. I'm hoping it does soon. I agree home grown produce can be so much better than what you buy in the store. Bill
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