u/ShelleyRAWarrior

Tasty treats and seeds to save!

Growing gregariously under pines. (Virginia pine) loblolly and Shortleaf pine. Did not bruise. INat suggests Baorangia bicolor.

Velvety

We’ve potted up 48 of these sunflower cultivar seedlings that are sprouting. We lose some when we do this although we are getting better. We got the soil and deep tree pots at the ready, should we pot them now? Or wait and do it in the fall?

Last year we planted 100 new trees (20 grafted cultivars and 80 select and local trees from fruit we foraged) and this year we will plant hopefully 4 times that. Mostly from a sunflower cultivar that produced very well last year. This is all to join our clonal colonies of hundreds of trees in order to add new dna and increase fruit production and just because we are really obsessed with Asimina triloba. 😀

We have about $400 of Scion wood from various sources and cultivars that were sent in mail to us a few months ago. We have them in the refrigerator. We’ve collected buddy tape, grafting tools, cutting board and what we think we will need but the timing hasn’t worked out yet to do it. (Between chilly temps less than 50 at night to rain). Should I be worried about the Scion wood? I didn’t open them. What would you all do? It’s raining today again which is great for everything and much needed. How long does the Scion wood stay viable?

We still have a few fruit hanging on after multiple freezes, a draught and a storm that knocked a branch onto one of these trees. First time fruit hasn’t dropped. 🙏🏼🙌