Starting a Juniper Farm On Top of a Mountain

[@meredithsoup3912]

This is so fun, I like you guys

[@esquimaltvermouth]

Too kind!! 🥰

[@nuovofresco]

Nice! Can juniper be grown from cuttings?

[@laurencehortop853]

Very enjoyable watch! easy to follow and your personalities are super engaging, can't wait to see the channel blow up

[@esquimaltvermouth]

Far too kind! Thanks so much :) Hope to keep posting regularly

[@jakebarney]

Awesome job, I’ll wait for the first harvest video sometime around 2085! On a serious note, I was wondering if maybe another interesting experiment would be to feed the berries to free range chickens and see if junipers fill their yard

[@esquimaltvermouth]

Lol!!! That honestly would work pretty dang well 🤣

[@raphlvlogs271]

why can't you cultivate junipers for the berries? considering that they grow easily in the wild and they are grown quite a lot in landscaping

[@esquimaltvermouth]

Most landscaping varieties don't have edible berries, you can only eat the ones from Juniperus communis. They do grow wild here on Vancouver Island, but often in tough to reach places without a lot of yield, so we're going to try and grow them ourselves to make access and harvest easier :)

[@jeffhughes1862]

Juniper is dead easy to propagate by rooting cuttings Doing so will save you years of waiting for seed grown plants to begin fruiting

[@esquimaltvermouth]

Growing from cuttings would just create clones of a single plant and would result in a lot of inbreeding and ultimately poor harvest. When starting a new population diversity is key to healthy plants so by growing from seed from a wide range of plant types, we ensure healthy pollination. That and I'm not doing this to be fast lol! Don't mind the wait as I'm not really out any cash for the project

[@travissyme6755]

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[@esquimaltvermouth]

Fabulous! We've got a few varieties here as well that need the breath of fire for life :)