Happy Easter. And here's what's blooming

Assorted Multigrafted Apples. Apples have diffent colored flowers too, not only their fruits. I have red fleshed and pink fleshed apples, as well as assortment of skin colors. I lost track on how many apples I've got. But if it is fireblight tolerant and tastes good for the inland Valley growing, most likely I've got them grafted:


By joereal at 2008-03-23


By joereal at 2008-03-23


By joereal at 2008-03-23


By joereal at 2008-03-23


By joereal at 2008-03-23

Assorted Pears:

A collection of 28 cultivars of pears in one tree, some are still blooming and others are still waking up from dormancy while still others have already fruitlets.

By joereal at 2008-03-23


20th Century Pear

By joereal at 2008-03-23

Multi-Grafted Cherry grown in pots. Yes, cherry can be grown in pots and they can be productive too! Gisela 5 is the rootstock. I'll be assembling one multi-graft on Krymsk 5 rootstock and observe how they perform in pots. My 24-n-1 Cherry Tree is in various stages of bloom at the moment. It is 28 ft tall and I let it be, due to my neighbor's Redwood Tree.


By joereal at 2008-03-23


By joereal at 2008-03-23

Pome Fruit Collection:

A collection of pomes in one tree. The Pome fruits includes Quinces, Apples, Asian Pears, European Pears, Asian x European Pear hybrids, Hawthorns, Loquats, Medlars, and others. The quinces are blooming and some apples are starting to open up. The pears are well on their way to fruit filling, very few petals left to drop.

I have 7 types of quinces on this tree. It also has 7 types of apples, 1 crabapple, 4 Types of Asian Pears, 6 European Pears and 2 Asian x European Pear hybrid all on the same tree. I used to have a hawthorn and loquat on this tree but they died, long term incompatibility problem, but I will find a more suitable interstem later to make them long lasting. Already I have grafted some good candidate interstems unto it and should be ready next year.

Note that the new grafts are already pushing out and some are even blooming already.



By joereal at 2008-03-23


By joereal at 2008-03-23

Smyrna Quince in bloom, part of the Pome Tree.

By joereal at 2008-03-23

This is my latest bloomer White Nectarine. A month ago, all of my peaches were in full bloom. Now the petals are starting to fall. This white nectarine is one of the last ones to bloom, and its flowers stay the longest too.


By joereal at 2008-03-23

awesome pics joe.

Beauties! Not only do they give you such color in the Spring but they reward you in the Fall with fruit! Great job.

I have such problems with the plum curculio on my apples. I am sure there are other things going on with diseases like blight too, but my crop has been decimated 3 years in a row. I haven't sprayed or anything as I just get confused with the research I have done on timings and types of sprays. Not sure how truly effective they are.