BYC gardening thread!!

[Meaghan]

Anyone here have experience with nut trees? We planted some fruit trees and a walnut tree back in January (it's never cold enough here to hurt the trees not does the soil feeeze). All of the fruit trees are doing amazing and growing large leaves and flowers.

The walnut isn't doing anything. It was graphed onto a different rootstock, and the bark is a faint green above the graph location, so we know it's alive. But the tip of the single branch is turning dark and appears dead. It did not start out this way, it used to be green all the way to the top.

Anything to be done or is it going to kick the bucket?

 

[hennible]

It looks pretty rough ( I know nothing about nuts... I envy people with nut friendly climates. ha ) if you score the walnut portion, above the graft, is it green under the bark or showing any life signs! Moisture or sap? If it is follow up with a few more marks and see if the life continues, once you hit what is dead cut it off just below the dead wood... That's just what I'd do, like I said zero nut tree exsperiance...

 

[Meaghan]

@hennible : I'm so afraid to kill it! Haha. Florida doesn't have its weather advantage, but with tropical weather comes bugs that are relentless.

Here some of the other trees we have that are doing well.

Bing cherry:

Apricot:

Honeycrisp Apple:

Guava:

Thai yellow mango:

 

[jerryse]

Anyone here have experience with nut trees? We planted some fruit trees and a walnut tree back in January (it's never cold enough here to hurt the trees not does the soil feeeze). All of the fruit trees are doing amazing and growing large leaves and flowers.

The walnut isn't doing anything. It was graphed onto a different rootstock, and the bark is a faint green above the graph location, so we know it's alive. But the tip of the single branch is turning dark and appears dead. It did not start out this way, it used to be green all the way to the top.

Anything to be done or is it going to kick the bucket?

Walnuts are slow to leaf out . You could try latex paint on the trunk to slow water loss . Give the roots time to get established without much loss of moisture . I do this with all my bare root trees that I plant . I always have a little paint left over .

 

[jerryse]

Yup, looks like Curly Dock AKA Yellow Dock. And, yes, it's great boiled, especially at that age.

Here's a picture of the seed head:

We have that one also . This gets really tall . I will have to take pictures when they go to seed .

 

[City farm]

@hennible : I'm so afraid to kill it! Haha. Florida doesn't have its weather advantage, but with tropical weather comes bugs that are relentless.

Here some of the other trees we have that are doing well.

Bing cherry:

Apricot:

Honeycrisp Apple:

Guava:

Thai yellow mango:

Looks amazing.. i love when members post photos.

 

[City farm]

Awesome! I have a few roses.

What kind?

 

[dan26552]

What kind?

I'm not sure, there's one I'm 99% sure is a "mister Lincoln" beautiful rose, there's four others that I don't know what they are and a wild rose that was there when my parents bought our house, my dad tried three times to dig it up it didn't work. It's a very strange rose though, some years it's light pink, some it's hot pink, others it's bright red and sometimes it's white.

 

[Meaghan]

Walnuts are slow to leaf out . You could try latex paint on the trunk to slow water loss . Give the roots time to get established without much loss of moisture . I do this with all my bare root trees that I plant . I always have a little paint left over .

I'm not sure how the plants can loose water here, the humidity never seems to drop below 40% and it rains almost every single day.

In all seriousness, let me see if I can find what dried out walnut branches look like. I'm not sure it's dry, just dying.

 

[marktoo]

I'm not sure, there's one I'm 99% sure is a "mister Lincoln" beautiful rose, there's four others that I don't know what they are and a wild rose that was there when my parents bought our house, my dad tried three times to dig it up it didn't work. It's a very strange rose though, some years it's light pink, some it's hot pink, others it's bright red and sometimes it's white.

Sounds like Joseph's Coat! Is it vining? They don't really climb! http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/367/