Where do you buy good quality but Cheap Trees

[Judy]

Also had a really negative experience with arborday.com. Dead sticks.

 

[Mahonri]

Good question.

We got two trees this spring. One for shade (a must in Phoenix) the other a peach tree.

The shade tree was huge when planted so it's doing good.

The peach tree was small but no leaves have budded yet... I'm wondering if I planted too deep. I've already dug around the base to be certain that the graft is exposed to air.

I ran 140 acres of peach and cherry orchards for three years when I was a teen and I had very few do this. This is my first fruit tree not to make it in Phoenix.

 

[HennysMom]

how big was the peach tree Mahonri? Dwarf, standard?? I'm assuming dwarf since you said there was a graft section.

rule of thumb is to plant them as deep as the root ball / container they are in. We planted 7 dwarf trees last spring (1 peach, 3 pear, 1 cherry, 2 apple) and I got them off of millers - 6 arrived 5 feet tall and the one apple arrived about 3.5 feet tall. All were bare root stock, but had branched on all but the pears. We planted as directed - about 2 feet around per hole but only as deep to keep the graft above the ground but enough to spread the roots out (probably about 1.5 feet deep).

Ours said to ensure they were "mounded" and not flat so that water would run off of them and not pool, so we actually had to build it up a bit. We used tree and shrub soil and mixed it in with our regular soil as well to acclimate the trees.

Our trees now are about a foot or 2 higher than when we first planted them

and should produce this year for us (they were 1 to 1.5 years old when we got them and produce their 2nd year).

My peach (elberta) is just now starting to show some minor blooms on it, moreso the leaves. So I wouldn't worry too much yet - if you can, try to break off a piece in an area that wont hurt it and see if the tree's still alive. If it snaps easily, its dead - if it bends, its still thriving!

 

[Buster]

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Deb- I ordered that catalog (at your suggestion) and when it arrived, much to my dismay, DW looked through it and said, "I could spend THOUSANDS here!"

 

[HennysMom]

I told you Jared...

They are great though - best prices, quality and customer service hands down. They beat every nursery here locally on price - and that included shipping to my door!

No scrawny sticks from them.. you get an ENTIRE TREE - just like you'd pay for at a nursery in the container - but for MUCH LESS! I think I did my entire orchard for around $120.00 if that, and that included shipping.

 

[Buster]

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Then my first check when I go back to work we're going to be ordering some fruit trees.

 

[ksacres]

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I think the link is www.millernurseries.com

 

[HennysMom]

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I think the link is www.millernurseries.com

YEP - you're correct - thanks KS... I always forget there is the "other" Miller in IA...

It IS millernurseries.com

Thank you honey!