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@@SecondMileDIY Haha, you understand our struggle! I'm glad we have access to this land but gosh there's a plane every few minutes! Same here though, now that more fruit have ripened, we're picking several pints a week from almost 50 plants. The bugs definitely like them, our main problem besides production in the heat has been caterpillars eating them. We have one grafted on Physalis angulata that is growing great so I'm curious to see how it performs out here.

@@radi2173 Yep! 3 feet in between. This is intentional since they are not permanent and will be kept small through pruning.

@@themulberries okay👍how far apart do you plant them permanent?

@@radi2173 The further the better if you live in a zone warm enough for them to grow into full-size trees. I think 15-20 feet would be enough for an orchard-style planting.

@@FlomatonFamous Thank you!

@@novastar369 They definitely benefit from partial shade. I think ours would be much more productive/healthy if we had a long shade cloth over them. We're hoping in Fall they will resume producing berries, and so far our graft onto the native ground cherry worked great so we'll see if that helps at all.

@@novastar369 That's awesome! We have 'Purple Boots', similar to 'Purple Possum', it's a seedling variety from raregrowsNJ. It's not quite as big, but maybe 3-4 feet now and sure is growing fast. What were you looking for?

Wow I wasn't expecting an answer 😂 well I have polyambryonic citrus seedlings but I don't have any cold hardly one's. I could graft them onto better rootstocks maybe but I'm also kinda wanting to grow them in a large greenhouse eventually because I have avocados and mangos as well besides my starfruit trees and guava trees and a mamey sapote. All from seed. But easier care citrus would be better. Haha

@@novastar369 We've got tons of cold hardy citrus seedlings at the moment, and we're going to have trees/cuttings too going into the Fall. Sounds like a fun project, good luck!

​@@themulberriesare you open to the public? Or do you only ship plants?

@@novastar369 We only ship plants, but maybe sometime in the future we will be open to the public. We do occasional pop-up stands here in NC.

@@novastar369 Ours are from Trader Joe's seed too!

@@CitrusPalmsWithTom Yes! I'm going to do a walkthrough soon of all our ~100 in ground trees. They are in fabric pots that are buried since we are leasing the land and can't plant permanent trees. It's been working well so far at least!

@@ryanmatthewcreel1617 Unfortunately I think you are right. There is maybe a chance for finger limes and their hybrids since they have resistance to greening, but I doubt they will ever reach the same scale.

@@mimibergerac7792 Definitely something to take a look at!

@@jeremiahedwards2073 you're welcome! I hope it helps!

@@ross2398 it's amazing seeing how they grow in nature! They're incredibly persistent plants. Hope you enjoy your figs too!

@@VirginiaFruitGrower Thanks G! Lots more coming this year, I'm really excited for some of them.

@@douglasp2238 Nope. A lot of our plants we simply let them be and ripen whatever they're willing to hold onto. This little plant has had no problem cranking out melons! Good size too for being a "midget melon".

@@themulberries it's my first year doing cantaloupe I have mine growing on a cattle panel trellis plus each melons tied up. Just wasn't sure if I should limit its production because it's wild.

@@douglasp2238 Us too! Everyone has their own philosophies but I feel plants do a better job of knowing when they can handle the amount of fruit that set - if anything, extra melons will just abort themselves. Minnesota Midget and Bush Sugar Baby both impressed me with their very small sizes and lots of high-quality fruit.

@@BrokeFarmer thanks!

@@Selma_Farm thank you and welcome!

Yeah, I work at a nursery and conversely, our top soil is straight up clay. That's what top soil is in the Missouri Ozarks . . . but it's totally different an hour or two north or east of here.

@@BrokeFarmer The more the merrier! It's just been much more difficult to ship citrus trees/cuttings to Georgia lately with the citrus quarantine laws, but seeds are fair game as far as I'm aware 🤔

@@ross2398 Thanks! That sounds very cool, we can get in touch when I have scions to trade!

@@themulberries No need for a trade right now, y’all need to get these varieties grafted!

@@themulberries DM’d you on your Etsy store, I’ll send these out this week!

@@ross2398 That's very kind Ross, thank you!

@@quinnmores1007 Thank you! Wee have a lot of seedlings that are 3 feet tall already that were just sprouted this Winter/Spring. It works surprisingly well!

Impressive test plot, I'm testing a number of Poncirus hybrids, and hope to selection a number of zygotic plants as seed parents.

@@rafaelramos441 Thank you, and if you're who I think you are, I've been following your work with the zygotic C-35 seedlings! I have a couple of your selections grafted out, as well as 5star citrumelo and Bishop citrandarin.

​@@themulberriesIndeed, I'm really hoping to find a zygotic Conestoga to serve as a seed parent for creating crosses with Bishop Citrandarin.

@@rafaelramos441 I think that could be a very interesting cross. On paper that's 50% trifoliate orange, 37.5% mandarin and 12.5% pomelo assuming each hybrid has 50% of its genetics from its parent (this of course is not actually the case). Best case scenario could be a Citrandarin with better taste/size which would be great.

You're welcome! It's common practice to cut the leaves in half when starting citrus trees from cuttings, like ours in the video. It helps prevent the cuttings from dehydrating. Sounds like they grew you Kaffir lime in some good soil! Good luck with it!

@@themulberries Thx very much. The plant is doing very good with like 15 little fruits growing and falling. But mine is different, the leaves are here but i see a cut in the middle of some. There is no other half missing, just a line in the middle of the leaf. And yeah another thing, i have 2 new little branches growing with very black color little leaves. Not green at all. Have you ever seen that on your citrus trees?

@@lowpoul5552 Oh interesting, we have finger lime and blood lime that have dark red new growth, but I haven't seen black. I have however seen branches spontaneously turn black and die, especially on kumquats and kumquat hybrids for some reason.

@@themulberries This is very weird. I have them on 2 branches. New black ones and they are growing like normal branches and leaves. The first time i noticed that, i thought it was a mosquito stuck on the leaf. But now it is clearly 3 new branches with leaves on each ones. 2 cm height.

@@chrisfisher3900 Haha not quite, I believe his name was Kerwin!

@@chrisfisher3900 Thank you! That sounds like an awesome collection too! Definitely working on diversifying ours a bit more going into next year. I was surprised how good they work, ours is just a generic one too but it made things much easier when staking our trees and veggies.

@@samMTL514 Very interesting, I'm sure there are economical reasons that are more beneficial to the nurseries rather than the home growers.

@@BobZoom2U They sure are - next year we'll be able to demonstrate our hedge idea better. These will be spaced out much further on a future permanent property. No electric out here either but the fence keeps the deer out at least, we'll be sharing with everyone else.

@@technoendo I definitely found that premade citrus/cactus mixes did better with additional perlite, increasing the % of permanent substrate. Sounds like your experience with 5-1-1 was similar to ours and others, good luck with the last dozen!

@@themulberries Yeah and combining 5:1:1 with the drainage of Air Pots likely made the lack of water retention even worse. Been pondering using more pumice instead of perlite as perlite compresses and seems to fall apart over time. Probably should also try adding a bit of sand/topsoil and see how that does.

@@technoendo That's true, pumice is worth mentioning! It's another great addition, and still fairly lightweight, I wish it was easier to find. Sand and topsoil definitely have a lot of great attributes. Our dragon fruit are growing in a 1:1:1 mix of peat moss, sand, and perlite and they're doing great.

@@GrowsGoneWild they really are!

@@edmonpierre4562 Thank you! We're located in central NC not far out from Raleigh.

@@doggiefamily908 Mimicking nature can yield some very good results! Glad your pro mix is doing better. 5-1-1 is good for healthy root development but like you said the plants just weren't happy unless they were fed and watered constantly. Let me know how you like it! Citrus definitely perform best in the ground in a well-draining spot.

@@BrokeFarmer Give it a try and let me know how you like it! Use the stuff from the landscape supply companies, the topsoil at Home Depot/Lowe's has too much wood in it.

@@paul.1337 In-ground is always so much easier between the constant moisture and the mineral soil! This was exactly part of my thought process with mineral-based potting mixes, I should have mentioned that. Trifoliate rootstock is much much easier than own-root stuff. It's more tolerant to poorly draining/wetter soils. Even the trifoliate hybrids grow pretty well in their own roots with the exception of Dunstan citrumelo which I found to have more susceptible roots and prefer to graft it onto trifoliate instead.

@@truthseeker1364 Thank you for watching! I'm hoping to select a more heat resistant strain amongst all these plants (I have one so far that is still producing fruit this time of year), and grow the seeds. The fruit that are ripening and dodged the bugs do taste really good! That's awesome you have a collection in Maryland, it's always cool to hear people are growing in areas further up than here. I hope we can cultivate a new variety worth putting in your collection!

@@barryjanis Thank you, and that sounds very cool! Yes, we have these trees tagged and a digital map of the varieties. We are only renting this land, so these trees will be pruned aggressively, and are purposely spaced closely and in fabric pots to form a hedge row of sorts. They will eventually be uprooted and given lots more room on a permanent property!

@@BrokeFarmer they're quite precocious, even from seed! If not this year, then crossing my fingers for next year for you!

Agreed! I think it deserves more attention, its taste when ripened to a yellow/orange is quite good.

@@doggiefamily908 that's awesome! Our potted Thomasvilles have fruits as well. Hope you enjoy them!

@@paul.1337 I'm glad your Yuzu grafts took at least! We've still been re-grafting plants whose original grafts from the Winter/Spring failed. We had pretty mixed results at that time of year because there simply wasn't enough heat. Only 3 out of maybe 15-20 Thomasville grafts succeeded. Once daytime temperatures rose above 80-85°F, we had almost 100% success with new grafts, and the grafts healed very quickly. Side veneer and chip bud grafts have been the most successful for us.

@@LoganShelton-rh3lp Madison Citrus Nursery was selling the scions for grafting. McKenzie farms had trees in stock at one point but they're all sold out! We are looking to have some of these available for sale next year.

@@ross2398 it really is!

@@Ari-jj9op I've heard good things about the dwarf figs little ruby and fignomenal! We're lucky to be able to lease this land, but at some point we were growing figs indoors too! Give them lots of light, a south-facing window is great otherwise definitely supplement with a high-power grow light. Good luck!

I am in zone 6 PA.....you can grow them outside if you have the right variety and also protect them overwinter via trench method or wrapping.

@@BrokeFarmer We picked almost 10 gallons and barely made a dent!

@@brianbaumann1337 Thank you! Haha, we've sold a few in person! Not everyone knows/understands them well enough so we have better luck online, it's just been very hot for shipping lately. It's a good problem to have too many figs at least!

@@deanevangelista6359 Thank goodness! Definitely pick them ripe to avoid any latex sap dripping. I've heard the sap makes your skin more sensitive to sunlight. We love figs, they are such a diverse and tasty group of fruit trees.

@@themulberries I air layer cuttings every year, and give them away to friends and neighbors. The Chicago hardy seems to thrive in my Maryland climate, and hasn't frozen back to the ground in many years. Even when it did, it produced that year.

@@deanevangelista6359 That's the wonderful thing about Chicago Hardy! It's my personal favorite at the moment because it's very well-rounded and one of the few varieties that can die back and fruit in the same year.

@@emilysp722 That sounds great! It's very likely you can grow Maypop/Purple Passionflower in CT. Supposedly they can survive in zones 5/6 if they are protected with mulch during the Winter.

They are planted at a very high density, spacing is probably 1/4 inch or so. Once they grow larger/at the end of the season they will be separated into tree pots until they are sold.

@@ExposingBethel That's a lot of trees and cuttings! That's a good reason to grow them, we wish you luck!

@@themulberries thanks. Lost a couple plants. Today is 117degrees, tomorrow 119, Sunday 116...110ish for the 10 day forecast.

@@ExposingBethel Wow that is hot, and I thought 101°F and 60% humidity was bad here! Haven't lost anything but our potted trees haven't been as happy.