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Wanted to show off my home orchard. Still not finished I plan on mulching each row of trees, adding more mulch and finish putting up cages around them but happy with the progress so far. These are just pictures of my main front yard orchard which has a total of 38 trees out of the 47 I have planted. Most are bare root that were planted in March and April. A few are not dwarfs and were planted a year ago but the rest are dwarfs. Mix of apple, peaches, plums, nectarines, apricots and cherries. Have plans to sell, give away, can and preserve the fruit in addition
making cider. My honey gold set fruit and I have around 20 apples. I’ve done a lot of research in trying to find disease resistant and cold hardy varieties. Still need to learn more about spraying schedules.

As the title inquires, has anyone grown cherry trees from the top 12-18 inches of a bareroot cherry? It is the black gold variety. For some background, 1-2 weeks ago I received my black gold bareroot cherry trees. After planting them I trimmed off the top 12-18 inches to keep them small and decided I’d try my hand at growing more trees. Usually just burn the trimmings but decided to do something different. I’ve heard it’s very difficult to actually get them to grow roots from cuttings. So far, they have been in water only on my kitchen windowsill and both have sprouted some leaves. I see a couple very small root like structures coming out from the bottom. Should I let it sit in water longer or place it in potting mix? I understand it’s a long shot but since they’ve sprouted leaves I’d like to give it a fighting chance if possible.

Currently have around 47 various fruit trees on my property. Most of those I planted as bareroot but I have some that I picked up at local farm stores. This McIntosh apple is one of those. I’m thinking about loosening up some of the branches as I believe I may have made one bend too much. Otherwise I’m pretty happy to be able to continue to add trees to my property. 16 total apples with 10 different varieties, I have a mix of apple, pear nectarine, apricots, plums, pears, cherries and peaches. Not sure what I’m going to do if they all produce but have some plans and the way I see it, I still have 3-4 years before I get a huge harvest, if that even happens.