All of my fruit has dropped. My experience is different from what you're saying 🤷

@fletcherfarm well good for you, but try bigger grid next time for a even better experience, passion fruit comes in different sizes, you might want to try a giant variety, 2 x 3 isn't adequate for experienced growers, I'm not saying it to mess around, I'm saying it because my father was a experienced grower, I'm growing yellow giant for the first time, but I'm not using wire mesh at all, I'm using a old third world technique, but with modern materials, my vine survived tropical storm Ernesto using this vine training technique, in about 4 years when I'm about to change the vine, it should be easy to clean and remove old vine, that's where experience comes in, but this won't be your only time growing passion fruit, Experiment and see what works better, this is how experience is gained.

There's a love-hate relationship with cherry trees here in Southern California. If they produce, they really produce. My mini royal is that way. But when they don't produce, they're a disaster. One of my friends is ripping out his cherries and putting in other stone fruit like Pluerry in its place. He might be on to something!

Oh, this is a good idea. Half of my avocado branches are already cured 😂

That's Spice Zee Nectaplum. Peach, plum, nectarine hybrid by Zaiger. One of my favorites 👍👍

@@fletcherfarm sounds interesting and looks very nice that red does. Please, about those mixes of the peach family: what are honestly the top 3 varieties or mixes (for example varieties of peach or a mix of plum and nectarine better) so overall to summarize the best all around one and skip on vanity of having even ones that sound rare but really are not much different?

As other people have mentioned, I am probably going to try top working the avocado first. If it works, great. If it doesn't, I will likely do what you are suggesting and replace it entirely with something new. 👍

No matter what I do to the damaged trees, I will definitely implement some shade into my orchard next year for my healthy avocados. I made the mistake of thinking that the dense canopy alone was going to carry these trees through the heat wave, but I learned that I was wrong.

​@fletcherfarm I missed the age of the trees the first time around. I would prune away as much burnt wood in winter (above the graft) and let them bounce back with some organic fertilizer. It would be a win-win. The trees would be happy and you can keep them!

I have noticed that my GEM can take a lot of heat. I made some shorts of my GEM compared with Gwen in heat tolerance. Of course you can graft or have someone graft over with GEM since the production wasn't the highest. Reed also seem to take heat well and (for me) is better tasting. Thanks for sharing!

Also Lamb takes heat well for us in NorCal where we get 110 sometimes days in a row!​@fletcherfarm

I appreciate you sharing your own personal story. That's a crazy amount of growth in such a short period. I'm leaning towards grafting like you've suggested.

@@fletcherfarm I have a ton of pictures documenting the process. Happy to share them if you think it would help.

I agree.

This is a very attractive option. These are unknown varieties to me, and it would be great to graft some known cultivars.

​@@fletcherfarm yup stump it and top graft there are good KZbin videos. I've done this several times with good results

Minnie Royal and Royal Lee are doing just fine. This one is a dud, though. 👎

I don't know if this helps, but I got mine through Four Winds Nursery. They're based out of California but they ship wherever there is not a restriction on citrus.

@@fletcherfarm appreciate it, I can't get anything shipped here, I just have to see if I can find it locally and I guess seeds won't work well, I'd get something! 😂

Interesting info! Looks like flordaprince does not have a patent, but in other cultivars that are patented, it is indeed florda without the "I". Every nursery today lists it as "Floridaprince" or "Florida Prince" .... Which means it's either not the original flordaprince or since it's not under patent, nurseries can call it whatever they want (and this misspelling of Florida would likely cause errors/confusion). There's a great fruit tree patent episode on the Orchard People podcast that has a lot of great info on this topic.

I threw shade cloth over the DF this year, but yes, I do need to come up with a better shade solution for 2025. Any ideas?

Rohr Park. So much is advertised on social media and through word of mouth. There's no one central database unfortunately. For this one, look up San Diego Seed Swap.

I'm in San Diego, Zone 10B. Pomegranates love the hot, dry weather. Along with olives, they are the stereotypical Mediterranean fruit that thrive here in our Mediterranean climate. Texas is a big state, but if you have a climate like what we have here, I'm sure they'll grow just fine.

@claytonwindham I'm in San Diego, Zone 10B. Pomegranates love the hot, dry weather. Along with olives, they are the stereotypical Mediterranean fruit that thrive here in our Mediterranean climate. Texas is a big state, but if you have a climate like what we have here, I'm sure they'll grow just fine.

@@fletcherfarm well we probably won’t be able to do that. It gets just a little too cold! I’m gonna start watching your channel more, I feel like you have a lot of good info to share! Thank you!

@@claytonwindham hey, I appreciate it. I'm not any kind of certified expert, so you'll get to see my successes and all of my failures. Happy growing.

Hey, I was reading up on pomegranate varieties and I remembered your comment. Check out Salavatski Pomegranate. It's supposed to be hardy down to 0. Rain tree Nursery currently has it for sale.

I water every week during the dry season (San Diego 10b). I use a bubbler that I adjust with a screwdriver, so I don't know the exact GPH. Don't stress, your tree is still young. The tree will not fruit or fruit very little in its first few years.

@@fletcherfarm sounds good!

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Good luck with your project!

Thank you very much!

For sure. I tried, and failed, to graft Sugarcane to Lang. I think I grafted too early and the Scion died. I'll try again next year!

Yeah, I made the same mistake when I first grafted it in the spring. It works well in the summer with almost 100 percent success with cleft graft and chip budding.

Also, I used dormant wood cuttings not sure if that matters.

That must have been cool! I see them here and there, but not lining entire streets. They do attract a fair amount of pests, so maybe it was necessary to remove them.

"The best fertilizer is a gardener's shadow." I would have never noticed if I wasn't making frequent observations.

Luckily, the wire's opening is 2in x 3in. That's big enough to fit my wrist, so I can reach in and grab any fruit that doesn't hang down.

@fletcherfarm good luck with that, that's a pain in the A$$. I built a pergola style chicken run, that sucker is almost 11 foot tall, I designed it to grow passion fruit on it to provide shade and fruit for me and the chickens, I'm running wires on top of pergola to train the vines, spaces should be wide enough for fruit to freely drop, but your plant looks healthy and looks good, the only draw back will be the wrong size mesh, it should be minimum of 4x4, but I personally don't recommend mesh, it's too expensive and will be a nightmare once plant needs replacing...take under consideration passion fruit is invasive.

@@MosaicHomestead Training a passion fruit vine across wires is going to require very frequent maintenance during the growing season, so I guess there's flaws to every system. Whatever works for you, though, is all that matters.

@fletcherfarm agreed 👍, but training is enjoyable for me like feeding chickens 🐔, trying to remove rotting fruit is a nightmare like watering chickens 🐔 😆...I took care of the watering problem 😅

Interesting. When unripe, they're green with a hint of yellow. They're dark red when ripe. The most distinguishable feature is the heart shape. Does the bottom of the fruit come to a point?

I've tried a lot of things, and girdling was a concern when I tied the cardboard wrapping ("tangleguard") with green nursery tape. Blue painters tape is not strong enough to girdle in my experience, but it also doesn't stretch like grafting tape. Tanglefoot is only effective for a month or two before the gunk adds up and the ants make a bridge (normally with dead ants bodies) so girdling shouldn't be an issue because this needs to be frequently replaced until the sooty mold gets under control. I did slightly girdle one tree, and it was due to my laziness of not removing/replacing. 😂

Hand pollinate, but nature may help sometimes, too.

They grow like crazy! I wasn't sure if one was going to be enough. Turns out, one is more than enough.

I've never tried freezing. They never last long enough for that.

Check out Greg Alder's channel. He's growing avocados successfully in an even hotter and harsher climate than me here in San Diego County. I wish I could take full credit for the avocados, but they were planted two owners ago, maybe 15-25 years ago. They had way more, but only 5 remain. I wish I had more info on them to share.

@@fletcherfarm I like Greg's stuff. I definitely watched a lot of his content when deciding on what Avocado to try growing.

There's a lot of debate about chill hours. I don't get anywhere close to 500, but I've had no problem growing fruit that is in the 350-400 range. The DW chill hour is a guideline, but I wouldn't consider it a hard rule. Good luck!

We're in a Mediterranean climate, with a high of 90F/32C in the summer, but mostly in the mid 70s/22C

I don't sell, but I do exchange locally with others in San Diego for free.

I'll have to read up and see if that's a good fit for my yard. Thanks for the recommendation!

I've never heard of a dwarf jujube, but you can keep anything small through pruning.

@@fletcherfarm I take your point about pruning. Li Lite is a dwarf variety of Li that typically grows 6-8 feet tall (a bit smaller than So Contorted). Many consider it the best variety to grow in a container.

Interesting option! I would need to see if I could find a low chill variety for my climate.

@@fletcherfarm I have a similar climate and bought some random columnars (that bloom when my other apple trees do) on sale hoping for the best. It’ll be an experiment. I’ve heard and seen videos here that show that supposedly high-chill trees can grow in Irvine after all

A tad under 1 in San Diego County.