@@EdgeofNowhereFarm thank you. Although I might have the same bird problem as you do. I have a fig tree that bears lots of fruits every year. Birds snack on them, too. Luckily, it produces more fruits than what the birds can eat.😄 🐦
@@CactusCaffeine that's the best scenario with those figs. We must have the hungriest birds on the planet. Even with hundreds of fruit in a season we can't get a ripe fruit without covering them!!
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm I have read that birds often damage fruit more for moisture than for food. I wonder if it has to do with your desert environment and what water sources are around or not around.
@@helpisonthewaytutoring4259 we've had several folks suggest the same and it's hard to say for sure. However, we have videos of small birds eating fruit on the ground, underneath a completely full bird bath, that is dripping water onto the ground right next to them!
Looking forward to seeing if those different strategies lead to success on the new farm. I think the "more trees" strategy will allow the birds to get their share and leave more for you.
Hey Allan. Yeah, we're hoping for the same. We have the space, so the question just becomes whether or not we just add multiple varieties and shot gun blast it or several of the same. Leaning towards a shot gun blast of multiple varieties right now, but Reed can only do so many different varieties for us. So we'll see....
@@allanturpin2023 Reed is the owner of RSI growers in Glendale. That's who we're using for the majority of our fruit trees on the new property as he uses locally grown root stocks for all of his fruit trees.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm- interesting. Getting serious... play time is over. Movin on up from the Wal-Mart special. I think you embarrassingly mention them in this vid. Always crackin me up. Reed sounds like a great resource for you.
Hey there! We don't have a crab apple variety that we grow and we don't sell trees from our farm. Reach out to Reid with RSI Growers and see what he suggests. I'll link his website for you here; rsigrowers.com/index.html
Birds damage tomatoes the same way they do your apples. They are looking for water. Rightly so, you both are in AZ. I've seen the fix for that is providing dishes of shaded water for them to drink and they will leave the fruit alone.
I think you're onto something there. We're trying to figure out how to incorporate more water features on the new farm to see if that can help us out. Hopefully you're right and we can get some of these fall varieties to fully ripe!
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm Great idea. You can extend a drip line or irrigation hose to a dish or pool or fountain or birdbath. That way the water gets refreshed often. Even a inexpensive bird feeder with a birdbath away from your valuable crops.
@@ayatti26 That's a great question and I have no idea on these varieties. We closed on the sale of the old property at the end of March and the trees had just started breaking bud at that point. The spring apple fruit set was solid, so hopefully it was the same on these for the new owners.
Hey Derick. Yes, we did have a Honeycrisp on the old property, but it never produced any fruit. Actually, it didn't even flower which is the only apple tree we've had that wouldn't at least give us flowers. It was very young when we sold the property and we met the new owners a few months back and the tree was still growing. So maybe there's a chance!
How are the Fuji apples in 9b? I have Dorsettgolden, and Anna and they are doing well but I have heard the Fuji are late season and that makes me nervous to try them in Mesa AZ.
Hey Jesse. These fall apples are VERY difficult to get to harvest through our summers. Dorsette and Anna are spring ripening, so they are harvested before the peak of summer when plants start to stunt and die back. This causes the tree to go into survival mode and basically let the fruit die on the tree. We're going to try a few on the new farm (they'll be planted over the next few weeks), but we don't plan on getting much if any harvest from them.
My local HD had a few nice looking ones that are very inexpensive so I thought I would give them a try. I have spot in the yard with optimal conditions but not sure if I should waste my effort on them. On another note I picked up 2 varieties of guava, pink and pineapple. Always fun to bring new spices back to the property.
@@jessebrown1497 good call on the guavas. We're trying them out here and you have better conditions than we do to grow those 2. Hope they do well for you!
I am hearing A LOT about Sundowner apples that are an import from Australia. I don’t think they are late season but hear they do great in deserts. Any info on this? Also been hearing a lot about a variety called Gordon- I think this is a late summer variety from south Africa if I’m correct. Anyway- worth looking into these 2 varieties! Bay Laurel Nursery online (from North California) offer a lot of good bare root varieties
Hello Sir, is it pink lady, fuji and Honey crips be grown in locations where low chill varieties are grown. What type of chill variety these apple trees belong? I found many grower don't care much of chill hours nowadays.
Hey there Lepou. These varieties do not work very well for us here, so I don't know whether or not they would be successful for you. They will set fruit, but they are not able to get all the way to Fall in order to ripen as our summers are just too hot and dry.
Rahul, that's a great question. They will grow in hot climates, but you'll find there will be very little production from the tree if it's too hot in the summer/growing months.
Fall ripening apples seem to be the biggest challenge, because they are one of a few that have to survive through our summers. Pomegranates push right through with no issues and figs are ok as long as they have consistent irrigation. The majority of fruits ripening quickly enough that they don't have to deal with the intense heat of summer.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm How about persimmons? They ripen in the fall too, and I remember purchasing Hachiya persimmons that had black patches on their skin, probably sun burn too. If it’s cosmetician , I would not care, but if it affects fruit quality as with your apples, then it’s a consideration in variety selection.
@@ahmadel-awa4165 great question. Persimmons grow well for us and we had a tree on the old property that produced fruit, but they never survived the onslaught of the summer birds we see here in AZ. We didn't do a good job of protecting them from the birds, so the 2 persimmon varieties we have on this farm will continue that test. Hopefully we can get those to make it into Fall as well.
Hey Arthur. Good suggestion. We're going to try a couple of different tactics on the new property that may help and one of them may very well be to try and open the canopy, but keep a central leader for these fall apples.
you might have luck with really late apple variety's. search for Albert Etter variety's. skillcult channel on youtube has great information. orange pippin is a great source of hundreds of apples, im sure you can search on there and find something that works for you.
Sir apple plants variety name wambugu are low chilling plants or high chilling apple plants please comment me wambugu apple plants chilling hours requirements please information me comment sir
Eeh, it's like I am in a lecture room... thanks for sharing dear
Glad you enjoyed this one Kariire!
I live in Las Vegas and I just bought my first gala apple tree. Your videos are helping me since we have the same environment. ☺️☕️
Hello in Vegas! Congrats on your new apple tree. Hopefully it will produce some wonderful fruit for you there in the NV desert.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm thank you. Although I might have the same bird problem as you do. I have a fig tree that bears lots of fruits every year. Birds snack on them, too. Luckily, it produces more fruits than what the birds can eat.😄 🐦
@@CactusCaffeine that's the best scenario with those figs. We must have the hungriest birds on the planet. Even with hundreds of fruit in a season we can't get a ripe fruit without covering them!!
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm I have read that birds often damage fruit more for moisture than for food. I wonder if it has to do with your desert environment and what water sources are around or not around.
@@helpisonthewaytutoring4259 we've had several folks suggest the same and it's hard to say for sure. However, we have videos of small birds eating fruit on the ground, underneath a completely full bird bath, that is dripping water onto the ground right next to them!
Looking forward to seeing if those different strategies lead to success on the new farm.
I think the "more trees" strategy will allow the birds to get their share and leave more for you.
Hey Allan. Yeah, we're hoping for the same. We have the space, so the question just becomes whether or not we just add multiple varieties and shot gun blast it or several of the same. Leaning towards a shot gun blast of multiple varieties right now, but Reed can only do so many different varieties for us. So we'll see....
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm- well, whichever experiments don't work out can be replaced with what does. Is Reed a nursery?
@@allanturpin2023 Reed is the owner of RSI growers in Glendale. That's who we're using for the majority of our fruit trees on the new property as he uses locally grown root stocks for all of his fruit trees.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm- interesting. Getting serious... play time is over. Movin on up from the Wal-Mart special. I think you embarrassingly mention them in this vid. Always crackin me up.
Reed sounds like a great resource for you.
@@allanturpin2023 Yeah, the Walmart tree buying days are over for sure!
Excellent
Glad you enjoyed this one Begam!
Do you have crab apple for sale? I wish to grow this kind. I never grow an apple before. Thank you for sharing this video .
Hey there! We don't have a crab apple variety that we grow and we don't sell trees from our farm. Reach out to Reid with RSI Growers and see what he suggests. I'll link his website for you here;
rsigrowers.com/index.html
Birds damage tomatoes the same way they do your apples. They are looking for water. Rightly so, you both are in AZ. I've seen the fix for that is providing dishes of shaded water for them to drink and they will leave the fruit alone.
I think you're onto something there. We're trying to figure out how to incorporate more water features on the new farm to see if that can help us out. Hopefully you're right and we can get some of these fall varieties to fully ripe!
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm Great idea. You can extend a drip line or irrigation hose to a dish or pool or fountain or birdbath. That way the water gets refreshed often. Even a inexpensive bird feeder with a birdbath away from your valuable crops.
@@ayatti26 again, great suggestions. Maybe even include it with some of the rain catchment plans.
How was the fruit set this year?
@@ayatti26 That's a great question and I have no idea on these varieties. We closed on the sale of the old property at the end of March and the trees had just started breaking bud at that point. The spring apple fruit set was solid, so hopefully it was the same on these for the new owners.
I'm in Rwanda I need pink lady variety seedlings can you send me a seedlings
The only trees the birds won’t attack in my hood is palo Verde 🤦🏻♂️
🤣 That sounds about right. I (Duane) hate Palo Verde. I still have scars from pruning those decades ago!
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Glad you enjoyed this one Brian!
Did you ever grow the Honeycrisp apples ? Just curious because I bought one to pollinate my Fuji apple tree.
Hey Derick. Yes, we did have a Honeycrisp on the old property, but it never produced any fruit. Actually, it didn't even flower which is the only apple tree we've had that wouldn't at least give us flowers. It was very young when we sold the property and we met the new owners a few months back and the tree was still growing. So maybe there's a chance!
How are the Fuji apples in 9b? I have Dorsettgolden, and Anna and they are doing well but I have heard the Fuji are late season and that makes me nervous to try them in Mesa AZ.
Hey Jesse. These fall apples are VERY difficult to get to harvest through our summers. Dorsette and Anna are spring ripening, so they are harvested before the peak of summer when plants start to stunt and die back. This causes the tree to go into survival mode and basically let the fruit die on the tree. We're going to try a few on the new farm (they'll be planted over the next few weeks), but we don't plan on getting much if any harvest from them.
My local HD had a few nice looking ones that are very inexpensive so I thought I would give them a try. I have spot in the yard with optimal conditions but not sure if I should waste my effort on them. On another note I picked up 2 varieties of guava, pink and pineapple. Always fun to bring new spices back to the property.
@@jessebrown1497 good call on the guavas. We're trying them out here and you have better conditions than we do to grow those 2. Hope they do well for you!
I am hearing A LOT about Sundowner apples that are an import from Australia. I don’t think they are late season but hear they do great in deserts. Any info on this?
Also been hearing a lot about a variety called Gordon- I think this is a late summer variety from south Africa if I’m correct. Anyway- worth looking into these 2 varieties!
Bay Laurel Nursery online (from North California) offer a lot of good bare root varieties
Haven't heard of these two, but we definitely need to look into these. Thank you for the suggestions!
Hello Sir, is it pink lady, fuji and Honey crips be grown in locations where low chill varieties are grown. What type of chill variety these apple trees belong? I found many grower don't care much of chill hours nowadays.
Hey there Lepou. These varieties do not work very well for us here, so I don't know whether or not they would be successful for you. They will set fruit, but they are not able to get all the way to Fall in order to ripen as our summers are just too hot and dry.
how are u going to get good pesticide coverage in that dense tree canopy i guess u have no mite aphid or other pest problems
The only real pest problem we have here is bird damage. Not much in the way of your typical issues with apples (mites, etc).
Is this from seed
No, these are all grafted trees. Seedling apple trees are not able to survive our soils.
Can pink Lady be grown in hot areas
Rahul, that's a great question. They will grow in hot climates, but you'll find there will be very little production from the tree if it's too hot in the summer/growing months.
What other fruits suffer from sun burn? Pears? Stone fruits?
Fall ripening apples seem to be the biggest challenge, because they are one of a few that have to survive through our summers. Pomegranates push right through with no issues and figs are ok as long as they have consistent irrigation. The majority of fruits ripening quickly enough that they don't have to deal with the intense heat of summer.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm How about persimmons? They ripen in the fall too, and I remember purchasing Hachiya persimmons that had black patches on their skin, probably sun burn too. If it’s cosmetician , I would not care, but if it affects fruit quality as with your apples, then it’s a consideration in variety selection.
@@ahmadel-awa4165 great question. Persimmons grow well for us and we had a tree on the old property that produced fruit, but they never survived the onslaught of the summer birds we see here in AZ. We didn't do a good job of protecting them from the birds, so the 2 persimmon varieties we have on this farm will continue that test. Hopefully we can get those to make it into Fall as well.
bend limbs down with spreaders to get tree to fruit but u got no central leader to do thAt
Hey Arthur. Good suggestion. We're going to try a couple of different tactics on the new property that may help and one of them may very well be to try and open the canopy, but keep a central leader for these fall apples.
you might have luck with really late apple variety's. search for Albert Etter variety's. skillcult channel on youtube has great information. orange pippin is a great source of hundreds of apples, im sure you can search on there and find something that works for you.
MRgreen, thanks for those suggestions. We're still hopeful we can find a variety that can pull through our summers!
Sir apple plants variety name wambugu are low chilling plants or high chilling apple plants please comment me wambugu apple plants chilling hours requirements please information me comment sir
Hello Pawan. I'm not familiar with that variety of apple, so I wouldn't be able to comment on that.
Okay 👍 sir ji thanks