Spring Garden Tour in May - US 9B 

Thanks! It gets better every year!

Good tip on Osmocote… Will put on all my tropicals… Amazing growth! BTW… gr8 success with Fig scions this year… not so with mangoes… avocados OK as well.

@@thegr8stm8 Glad to hear the fig and avocado grafting went well!

Thanks! It's been an excellent year overall for weather. No complaints so far.

More chop and drop; you can keep them small

Thanks! Great suggestion; I'll try to cover that soon.

The warm-up here is so fast, breba does not stand a chance. The only area that seems to have great breba crops are so cold their main crop is little to non-existent. Hoping your main crop is just as productive in Norcal!

@@EnlightenmentGarden thanks! It’s Looking better than last year! 32 trees, 25 varieties yielded all the figs i cud eat, quarts of jam and pounds of dried figs. Best of all tho managed to over winter the fig wasp for first time in the 5 capri trees so expecting the profichi hatchout here in a month or so. Semper Fi(cus)👋

While I don't have a drone, about 2 minutes into the video, "6 Year Old Urban Orchard Tour in Arizona 9B (Fall 2022)" I show some aerial footage 20' up. I also do a full walking tour every fall on the channel with each plant listed on the screen. Hope that helps!

Thanks! I didn't see many last year and did use a handheld vacuum cleaner to suck them up. I'm also not sure that leaf-footed bugs are solely responsible for the issues with my pomegranates. The fruit looked more like what they call black heart rot which is caused by a fungus, Alternaria spp. I sprayed the trees with copper fungicide several times before bud break this year. Hopefully, all of this will help get my fruit to ripen well. I've been growing pomegranates for over 10 years and it's only been the last 2 years that I've encountered issues.

That is great to hear! I'm always glad when plants go into capable caring hands.

The Honeyquat is doing amazing. Perfect green leaves (no burn) despite the heat. A little slow to put on growth but the upcoming fall weather should help that along.

You are welcome! I find lychee to be a difficult plant. Outside of flood irrigation and an established microclimate that offers increased humidity and afternoon shade, it can become stunted and is prone to burning up in the summer. Very few people get them to fruit in the desert. Alternatively, longan is easy and will fruit the first year or the next in the ground.

Yes, it's their favorite here too. Hoping you get to enjoy a harvest in the fall when they fruit again! You may want to try getting the jumbo-size organza bags (made for wine bottles) so you can bag an entire limb and easily get to the fruit as needed to harvest

Yes, I've tasted it here off a friend's tree but didn't like it enough to grow it. In my experience, all light-skinned honey-type figs struggle to ripen here in full sun except for Nixon Peace and Yellow Long Neck. This is one fig you may want to put in the afternoon shade or hang 30-40% shade cloth over a frame a few feet higher than the plant to help the fruit ripen and not scald. If after doing that, the fruit still never develops/ripens, you may not actually have a Peter's Honey and it may be a mislabeled non-self-fertile variety like a smyrna.

Thanks! I built all the shade frames from emt conduit and flat corner roof connectors. This is the video title from last year that provides the details, including material links: "Summer Shade Cloth and Sunscreen for Garden / Trees in a Hot Climate" The Inca Gold is in the sun for most of the day. It only gets a little relief at the very end of the day as the shade structure blocks the sun from hitting the plumeria from the west. Plumeria can get as tall as 20' tall but that would take decades here. Inca Gold puts on 1-2' of growth per year but naturally grows compact and more bushy. I plan to keep mine no taller than 10' tall to avoid limb breakage in the monsoons.

thank you so much!

I don't think it's one thing. The weather, the shade cloth, proper soil media for the container plants, fertilization, and light frequent watering all influence growth, fruit and flowering. Without a doubt, this spring has been phenomenal. With the mangos in particular, they were frost-protected this past winter which allowed them to kickstart in spring. I can confirm that I will continue to water light and frequent this summer as I saw great results over deep watering in prior years. I still believe deep watering once a week (in addition to light applications) has its place on year 2 plants to get the anchoring roots to go deep into the clay to establish the tree but beyond that don't see much value and find it wasteful

@@EnlightenmentGarden You're doing a great job there,,, keep it up :)

I have common gardenia (Gardenia jasminoides); available at the big box stores. They don't flower much during our summers but take full sun as long as the soil stays moist.

Hi--thanks for your interest! I don't sell seeds but Miniatree (see description for link) does. Unless you are very patient, I would not recommend growing via seed. The reason I limited sales to AZ is because it puts less shipping stress on the plants. In AZ, UPS ground would deliver the next day. San Diego would take 1 extra day which is not bad. I've extended the destinations to CA and NV now so you may purchase if you would like.

Yes! When I have pruned, the sap bleeds and forms a fair amount of resin. I have collected it and infused it in water.

@@EnlightenmentGarden Nice. I use boswellia resin in my salves, and tinctures

All the fruit trees I grow are listed on the linked spreadsheet on my channel description. The rootstock 20th Century and I also have grafts of Shinseiki and Tennosui. Tennosui is my favorite. I also did a highlight tasting video on the asian pears last year you may want to check out.

Thank you @@EnlightenmentGarden

@@EnlightenmentGarden May is ask where you picked up your Tennosui? I can’t find any here in Tucson.

@@larrypollman5243 The Tennosui is from a scion I grafted on a few years back in spring. I got the scion from an online company called Burnt Ridge Nursery. If you can't find it locally, you can buy a tree online in Fall. I would not mail order this tree this time of the year.

That's awesome you have trees too!

Thanks! Roses are actually edible but certainly a different experience than most fruit.