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Here's Joe's Clemenule as of 5/23/08

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On the right and left of the picture are different variety but can not recall off hand
Parfume Septembre European Plum grafted on 1/20/07 last year

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This is a prince Ranier Cherry.
Not yet ready but it shows promise

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And this is a Bavay E. Plum grafted on 1/30/07

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Joe Real's Tachima European Prune grafted to my Italian prune on 4/9/08

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Another Joe Real's Tachima European Prune grafted on Santa Rosa Plum on 4/9/08

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I love looking at your fruit trees! Looks like your wife has some canning ahead of her. LOL

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that is awesome. do you want to hear something humorous? i have an ornamental plum tree.....that has plums on it. how does that work? i think its great! a few more weeks and im gonna be eating some home grown plums. yummy yummy!

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very nice!

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Sorry I replied too late. I was so busy lately.
Thank you so much for your support Deb, Mskitty and Greene.
You guys and dolls are awesome.
This forum is the most friendly place I've been in. Thank you again.

I have other pics to show.

Here's Prince Ranier cherry almost ready to harvest. I just picked some.

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Hey Bennie - great work and the plants look great. We used to grow Morello cherry and Victoria plum in England - but of course it is too hot here for stone fruits. Great to see yours doing so well!!

Cassie

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Thanks a lot Cassie. We can not have everything. I envy you because you can grow bananas there and some pineapples or papayas.Here I have to struggle to grow them.
BTW I thought your Pisang Klotek might not make it last winter but look at it now! It is growing really nice where it is at.

I thought I'd put another pic for my Stella cherry

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I thought I created a monster. This is just one branch of my plout. I have other branches very similar to this.

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Benny,

It's too bad that you have such a brown thumb and have nothing prodctive to do with your time! Just kidding, of course! Outstanding job! Thanks for sharing your pics!

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Brent! heh-heh- ! Same to you!!!:cloudban:

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When you graft all those different fruits onto one tree, do you need to wait a year or so to allow those areas to fruit or do you just let it go?

Deb

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Green Gage plum

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I have more Fuji Apples and Fuyo persimmons I'll upload soon. And many bananas.

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nice fruit do u always let them fruit that heavily do you prop the branches?

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Pauly:
This is the first year they fruited. I graft them 2 years ago, the first year, they did not fruit but grew branches you can not believe. This Spring, they have a lot of flowers and this is what happened. I have many many varieties of European plums that I grafted on the canopy of a matured Santa Rosa plum. They took over the canopy. I had to use a ladder to graft them. I just let them be. I just cut other branches that interfere with the ones that were being crossed- branched.

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Deb:
I did not see your post before I answered Pauly but I think I answered both of your questions.
And thanks to both of you for your interest. You make my day to be pleasant.

here's my answer:

This is the first year they fruited. I grafted them 2 years ago, the first year, they did not fruit but grew branches you can not believe. This Spring, they have a lot of flowers and this is what happened. I have many many varieties of European plums that I grafted on the canopy of a matured Santa Rosa plum. They took over the canopy. I had to use a ladder to graft them. I just let them be. I just cut other branches that interfere with the ones that were being crossed- branched. I don't prop the branches except those ones closer to the ground such as my Prince Ranier cherry and my green gage plum.
I learned my lesson last year when a big portion of my prince ranier give way because of the heavy fruit and almost half of my fuji apple tree broke for the same reason. But I got to harvest the fruit just the same. I just let them dangle until the fruit ripened. Then I cut the branch off.

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Orchid

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Deb:
I did not think I answered you correctly but here's my answer.
Yes, normally I just let go of my grafts and leave them alone. But I make sure that no branches will be dominant from the mother plant near the graft. I cut them and make sure that the grafts get some sunlight.
But if the grafts flowered and there are no leaves sprouted to take care of the flowers for nutrients I cut the flowers like what happened to my granny apples. I've cut the fruits on my grannys thinking that it takes a lot of nutrients to sustain the fruit.
As Richard said to retain the fruit it would take away 4 feet of growth from the plant (I think that's what he said).

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thanks for the pic are you in to orchids i defantly am im i have some pics posted but not much a cupal of my Cattlays are going to blome in a few moths and all take and post them here for every one

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Pauly:
No, I don't know anything about orchids. This particular one is very hardy and grows and grows year after year with the slightest maintenance.

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orobllanco

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Joe Real's clemenule from Spain

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Awesome!!!! :0497::07::0497:

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not to change the subject but Orchids are one of my favorite topics most orchids are easy to grow they have hybridized them so much that they have taking allot of the guess work out of it and contrary to popular belief they are vary tough plants they are one of the oldest species of plants on earth as a mater of fact you don't get that big a genius with out it not being adaptable they grow in every region of the world including Antarctica here In Nevada we have 14 different Native Orchids 2 of them grow without chlorophyll now get that for weird and unusual plants you cant get any more exotic!

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Thank you so much Anna for your compliments.
Pauly: Orchids is some thing that I shy away from growing because I thought it takes special treatment to care for them like controlled humidity, controlled temperature, sunshine, watering, all controlled. Even fertilizing.
I've tried growing them before because I can buy a blooming orchid for $6 or $7 at the flea market and it is good only until the flowers bloom and die.
But my wife is very patient and she can grow them in our kitchen not a good looking lot but she can make them bloom again in small scale.

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And here's a granny apple that I grafted early this years ' Spring and 3 months later it produce none but flowers and no leaves unlike that pink I don't remember the name I grafted at the same time but all leaves.
Better than my judgement I cut the flowers when it turned to small fruit because I am not sure if it will sustain the nutrients the fruits demand of her.

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its a beautiful flower!

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Thanks Mskitty. I just got my internet back today.

Here's some update of my plants:

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It's hardly noticeable but look at the fruits closely. They are different sizes and colors and shape. It is because the branches are grafted different European plums last year and their first fruit.

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i like plums....

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Here's another angle of the same tree.
It has green gage plum, plouts, and many European plums grafted to the tree. It has even has apricot in it.

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Notice the different shapes and sizes and the degree of ripeness. It is because those are many different varieties. It has plouts, plums and some European species of plums.

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they look so yummy

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Wow, that tree is loaded!:woohoonaner:

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Thanks MsKitty and Dean

Now that I got your attention, please tell me how I can make preserve jelly out of them or canned them or how I can preserve them to use during the winter months.
All I know is to eat them fresh and give the leftover to friends.
It would be nice if I can make them into wine too!
I also have Fuji apples coming up and Fuyo persimmons that I can tell I will have bushels to harvest.

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Benny, I don't know how to can or make preserves. Maybe mskitty can help you with that one. :ha:

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Dean:
How thoughtless I can be. I just went to Google after reading your post and there I have all the menus I need.

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Great!!!:woohoonaner:

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benny go to your fav grocery store and pick up a couple boxes of sure jell. get the one in the pink box. the instructions are what i use to do my jams. but i dont do the water bath process. put your flat lids in a pan of water and put them on med-lo to med heat. this allows the sealing process after the jar is filed.....after you ladel your mixture into the jars, make sure the mouth and the threads of the jars are clean( wipe them off with a hot wet clean dish towel.) take a flat lid and put one on each of the jars you have filled(you have to do this quickly) and seal it with the screw on lid. put a towel on the counter and place your jars on it upside down( the lid part will be on the bottom) cover your jars with the remaining part of the towel...and wait. when you hear the popping noise your jars are sealed, wipe the jars off( i get jam all over the ouside of the jars) and keep them in a dry dark place after they cool. most jams and jellies will last up to a year. if you press on the middle of the flat lid and it didnt seal then i would use the waterbath method. sorry it took so long to post this.

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btw...the strawberry jam recipe in the sure jell box makes 4 and 1/2 pints of jam.:waving:. i just got mine done...now i have ot go to my moms and get my peaches...peach jam...yummy! and next week i might do some spiced plum jam.