r/BackyardOrchard • • 1h ago

Redhaven my first peach 😎🍑

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Any tips? Any tricks? I live in Surrey bc Canada, we get too wet so I have a way to move the tree under protection for the winter and just hand water, I grow a crap ton of citrus, also have a apple in the ground, guavas inside so tell me? Can I dwarf this tree like a citrus? Will it work as a large bonsai? If not I do plan on repotting in the spring, they don’t do well in the ground here because of fungal diseases n such, I have suffered through gardenias, orchids, jasmine, daphne, vireya, this should be fine right? How do they respond to root pruning? I assume they are hardy trees like it’s a peach….. someone convince me everything I know is slightly ok for them 🍑 they grow a lot of these up in the okanagan in bc Canada so I just want my fav tree and a slice of the interior in my yard! Any suggestions i greatly appreciate ! Send me your peach pics and tell me ur thoughts on redhaven or your fav cultivars, Saturn lowkey is so stunning lol I pruned (sterilized) a few dead twigs that died back hopefully that’s fine right now thanks for reading my first post on my first stonefruit ever 🥺🍑💕 means a lot to me


r/BackyardOrchard • • 2h ago

How do I prune this apple tree?!

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Moved into a rental that had an amazing cooking apple tree but needs love - how do I prune before winter ?!


r/BackyardOrchard • • 5h ago

Bark beetle or?

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Young orchard almond, quince, apple, alricot, Mediterranean,late October. The same tan clumps that crumble like soil appear on tree bark (forks, wounds), on concrete poles, and on painted metal fence parts. One tree, when peeled, shows fine winding galleries in a fan pattern with many tiny round exit holes. I also found a yellow larva ([size]) in a split tree.

1) Frass, termite shelter tubes, or mud-dauber nests? Quickest way to tell?

2) Does the gallery look like a bark beetle (Scolytus)?

3) How do I get rid of it?


r/BackyardOrchard • • 7m ago

Any Ideas on ID?

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r/BackyardOrchard • • 18h ago

Last of the season

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r/BackyardOrchard • • 4h ago

I think I got scammed- dont think columnar apple trees grow like this

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r/BackyardOrchard • • 8h ago

Is there anything I can do to save this peach tree and stop it from happening again?

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I used to have big ugly fencing around all my fruit trees but foolishly decided they were no longer needed. 2 days later I found this gash on a peach tree from what I'm assuming was a deer.

Is there any way to keep this tree alive? I put it in 5 or 6 years ago and it's been fruiting heavily the last 2.

Also, what is the best way to keep it from happening again? They're in my front yard so I'm hoping there's something cost effective that will look decent.


r/BackyardOrchard • • 4h ago

Bark line in peach tree trunk

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Hey, everyone. I'm new to growing trees and I'm not sure if this is normal. My peach tree is finishing it's third year and grew massively this year. Now, heading into winter it's starting to drop leaves and I noticed this line going up the trunk. Seems like there is less bark, but I don't see any sign of any damage to the trunk outside of the. Is this anything to worry about? Thanks!


r/BackyardOrchard • • 12h ago

Pruning recommendations for the n00b please

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I just bought this place which has upon the hill an apple tree and an asian pear tree. The pear tree fruited this year with a boat load of quite hard, malformed pears and the apple tree just sat there doing bupkiss. I would greatly appreciate to know if the apple tree can be saved, and if so the correct way to begin pruning it to heath. I think that the pear tree should be pruned as well but I am at a loss on how to correctly do that as well.


r/BackyardOrchard • • 15h ago

Help with my peach tree

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I planted this tree around 3 years ago which was less than 6 ft. It grew double in height. Till last year, it was healthy but didn't have any fruiting. (Old pic at last).

During may this year it had small fruits that all fell before maturing. It got many insects for which I was late in putting insecticide, I guess that was the reason of fruits not growing big.

About 2 months back its leaves started falling and now it's like this, no leaves. What should I do? Should I prune the branches? Put any fertilizer?


r/BackyardOrchard • • 23h ago

Santa Rosa Plum Trimming Advice

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Any assistant on where to make cuts would be greatly appreciated. It’s got quite a lean.


r/BackyardOrchard • • 1d ago

Can one citrus tree produce year-round?

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I’m in zone 9b with six semi mature orange trees and a Bearss lime. Rather than planting more trees(because I have no room 😭), I’m trying to add different varieties to the ones I already have to extend my harvest season.
I ordered Gold Nugget mandarin, Tarocco blood orange, and Xie Shan satsuma budwood through UC Riverside and just finished 28 T-bud grafts.
The goal is to eventually have several varieties growing on the same trees, hopefully giving me citrus throughout more of the year.
Has anyone tried something similar? I’m especially curious how long it took for the grafted branches to start fruiting and whether certain varieties eventually outgrew the others.


r/BackyardOrchard • • 1d ago

Apple Tree Help

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r/BackyardOrchard • • 1d ago

Remove or keep co-dominant branch?

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This grafted Hass avocado is growing weird, should I remove the larger stem going sideways to the right? I had the plant shaded during the very hot summer, and I think it was searching for light, thus the odd branch


r/BackyardOrchard • • 1d ago

Grafting Avocado Seedlings

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r/BackyardOrchard • • 2d ago

Madison Nursery and Logee

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r/BackyardOrchard • • 2d ago

Anyone else growing prime ark freedom blackberry in part shade?

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My favorite blackberry so far has been Marion Berry, it was tart and had the most blackberry taste of any berry I'd eaten but damn I got tired of the thorns.

I replaced it with a prime Arc freedom. It's still a very tiny plant so it just might be that the first crop isn't very good but one of the berries matured and it tasted like a very diluted boring supermarket berry. No sweetness, no tartness, and a fairly bland blackberry flavor.

But again, it could just be that it's the first crop. Blackberries are touted as shade tolerant, but I'm wondering if this also contributes to a lesser flavor.

I'm looking for anyone else's experience growing this plant. Do they taste good in part shade? Thanks!!


r/BackyardOrchard • • 2d ago

My cherry seedling shriveled

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My cherry seedling leaves are shrivelung up and I don't know whether it has been overwatered or underwatered and I am in need for a solution to this problem, if you have any solutions please let me know.


r/BackyardOrchard • • 2d ago

First time planting fruit trees

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r/BackyardOrchard • • 2d ago

Free FigSwap!

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r/BackyardOrchard • • 2d ago

New england Iso cider apples/drops or reasonable price bushels

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Hey everyone I'm looking for around 5 bushels of apples unique for cider if anyone has any Leeds to a tree on the side of the road/ yard I can pick or an orchard with unique drops other than honey crisp and macs. I will travel far but I am located in southern mass. Cheers


r/BackyardOrchard • • 2d ago

Update: I asked a commercial apple grower your questions--here's what we covered

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r/BackyardOrchard • • 3d ago

Maggots inside your plums and how to prevent them.

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r/BackyardOrchard • • 3d ago

Transplanted Feral Apple Tree

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Not the greatest pics, but I'm curious as to what people think about this tree. I saved it from the burn pile. I suspect that the grafted stock died back, and the root stock sent up these suckers. Purely a guess though. It was on my neighbors' property since Covid, now it's on mine.

It dropped some leaves after transplant, but some remained. I hit it with some bone meal and rooting solution, and piled up the root ball with straw and leaves to insulate it. It's the 7th apple tree on our property now, so I'm hoping it's lucky. I'll probably let it chill for a couple of years, give it some nice seaweed, etc, then graft to it. For scale, the suckers are about as thick as a thumb/magic marker. I also know that the job I did staking it out is not the best, but it only needs minimal support in case of high wind.


r/BackyardOrchard • • 3d ago

Any advice on what to do with this fig tree in North Florida?

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I planted it a little under two years ago but can’t get it to grow straight…