8 Fruits You Didn't Know You Could Grow in the Pacific Northwest (and Vancouver Island)

This video is a free sampler to our online "Grow Fruit Trees in the Pacific Northwest" Course. (hatchetnseed.teachable.com/p/...)
Filmed at Fruit Trees & More, in North Saanich, BC, it features a tour by Bob Duncan, a local legend of cultivating rare & unusual fruits, as well as the 'usual suspects. On their suburban lot, they grow peaches, nectarines, persimmons, apples, pears, cherries, figs, pomegranates, lemons, other citrus, avacadoes, chilean guavas, pineapple guavas, kumquats, loquats and more, just as their nursery name suggests!

[@dawuu]

Ha, I watched your figs video almost 10 times. Very helpful.

[@chelseadewberry9257]

You are awesome!! I just got told I was silly for wanting to do this in WA. I know it isn't easy, but thank you, clearly possible.

[@KylaA5952]

Bob Duncan for the win!

[@natemurphy4367]

I am trying most of the same things you are growing I’m in western Washington so far so good I wish you made more videos

[@KidGarden100]

paw paws are my favorite !

[@bigcountryjd]

I want to grow one so bad.

[@carlschmitt9562]

Avacados might like a spraying of c90 to encourage flowering and root growth. C90 worked awesome on my citrus fruit set.

[@CraftEccentricity]

Do you mean Sea90?

[@charlesbale8376]

Very interesting, appreciated the information.

[@annasimon7077]

Thank you ffor the amazing video. I want to move to Vancouver Island and do permacolture. Your video made me even more passionate about my project. Have you tried growing mangoes in the tunnels?

[@hatchetnseed]

We have not. As far as I’m aware, you would need significant supplemental heating and lighting to ripen mangos in our climate.

[@HelenRullesteg]

Re the avocado I guess you're referring to Jane Squier? I have been watching her videos, very fascinating and inspiring. I'm trying an avocado this year that I bought in a sale, doesn't look too great, but I hope it'll perk up. But great to see that one can actually grow these different fruits without living in really hot climates.

[@hatchetnseed]

Yes, Jane is an amazing woman and absolutely worth checking out her setup!

[@gblyndensrandomreviews]

Those would be rough to grow in Whatcom County based on your descriptions of them.

[@twistertruecrime]

This is great information for gardening enthusiasts. But .. for the time, effort, and expense... I think I would just pay to have a box of the fruits delivered.

[@elsid9545]

Thank you for giving me hope! I dearly wish to grow avocados, olives, pomegranates, and citrus. Can you point me in the direction of seeds/cuttings/plants for me to get started?

[@hatchetnseed]

Depending on where your located, I would try: Fruit Trees & More in North Saanich, Eco-Sense Nursery, Phoenix Perennials, SymbiOp Garden Shop, One Green World

[@juliac3956]

how can we find out more information or resources on how to build our own protected growing tunnels like Bob has here? Some structures look like commercial greenhouse pre-fabs but where he has his olives, jujubes, persimmons... it looks DIY. I would love any direction to figure out how to do this myself, thanks !

[@hatchetnseed]

I would suggest just search DIY High Tunnel videos: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g2bcfmd6nrWNitE We have a have a DYI Greenhouse video that may be of some help. There are just so many options, from metal frames, to wood frames, to municipal poly frames (my preference over PVC), and combinations of all of them. Bob used a lot of 2'' metal pipe, fastened to 2x4's roofing frames, with either glass, polycarbonate or greenhouse poly. Hope that helps.

[@sarcohuman8147]

I only like green olives so I think I could probably grow them in that habitat

[@RustyShakleford1]

Can bees polinate paw paws? Nlt just flies

[@TheNashNetwork]

Where can I get Feijoa in BC? I seem to be able to find everything else in this video.

[@lordflash4312]

FWIW, they have Fejoia at a bunch of nurseries in Western Washington where I am outside of Seattle.

[@Lion-dq9uj]

How about grafting a B type branch on an A type tree?

[@hatchetnseed]

Not sure what you mean. Apples can only be grafted to apples (rootstock dependant). Quince can be grafted to pears and hawthorn. Many prunus can be grafted onto the same rootstock (plum, nectarine, peach, almond). There are odd peculiarities with some rootstocks though that sometimes require an 'interstem' to bridge the graft.

[@kennethharrison4847]

This guy has no clue about these fruit. First, if it can not naturally produce fruit without bringing it in for the winter, it is not able to grow. Also notice he has them al. Enclosed so it isolates them from cold and rain that would rot the roots.

[@TheCaliforskin]

That’s Bob Duncan dawg, he knows his stuff. I wouldn’t be talking all that shit, you sound clueless.

[@kennethharrison4847]

@TheCaliforskin really then why then all the fruits if left on their own outside without expensive large greenhouse systems will die or not bear fruit naturally. It's called they can not grow here in the northwest. Not enough winter sun. To mutch rain.. he spending more money on lighting g and climate control than what they will ever produce. Unless he has an alternative energy source.

[@MartinaSchoppe]

too bad, that nobody from Hatchet & Seeds can be bothered, to answer all the questions... that's a thumbs down...

[@hatchetnseed]

Yes, we fell behind a little on replying to the comments through what has been a very busy season. This is really just a side project for us and we don't monetize it. We've just got caught up though, so hopefully that can turn your thumbs down to a thumbs up.