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Transcript of Grow Your Own, Nevada! Fall 2011: Growing Fruits and Berries
2003 Orchard View
• ISA Certified Arborist– Pruning– Consults and Pruning Lessons
• NV Nursery License– Retail bare root fruit tree sales– Grafting classes
• Gardening in Nevada since 1983• Master Gardener Volunteer since 1996• Monthly Fruit Tree and Gardening
Newsletter
Growing Fruit Trees and Berries in Northern Nevada
Michael G. Janik
www.michaelsapples.com
Sources of Information
• Handouts• UNR Cooperative Extension Master
Gardeners Reno 775-784-4848 Winnemucca 775-623-6304
• Clubs, Organizations, Botanical Gardens• Internet• Books
Reference Books
Sources for Trees
• Local nurseries
• Chain Discount Stores
• Mail order nurseries
• www.gardenwatchdog.com
• www.davesgarden.com
Selection Criteria
• What you need and want
• What the tree needs and wants
Personal Needs and Likes
• What type of fruit do you like?-Apples, Pears, Cherries, Berries
• Continuous supply-Early, Autumn, Over winter keepers
-Redhaven, Veteran, Contender
• Needs—Tastes—Uses -Fresh
-Baking/Cooking
-Sauce/Juice
-Preserves, Jams, Jellies
Preserves, jams, jelly, pies
Other ways to preserve apples and grapes
Fruit Tree Needs and Likes
• Climate—Hardy to USDA zones 2-6
• Chill Hours—hrs 32-45°F +800 hrs
• Soil—pH 6.5 Northern NV pH 8.5
• Water• Nutrition—No need to fertilize, except
• Location—Sunshine > 8 hrs/day
Varieties for Northern Nevada
• UNR Cooperative Extension (handout)
• Other varieties for our area
• Farm trails and fruit tastings
• My varietal recommendations (handout)
• Late Blooming, Early Ripening Varieties on Dwarfing Rootstocks
Farm Trails—Stabile’s Hillview Farm Watsonville, CANAFEX.org
Apples
• Choose an early ripening, a late, & a keeper (or 2)
• Handout varieties plus:– Granny Smith,
Arkansas Black– Honeycrisp,
Fuji – Smokehouse,
Newtown Pippin
• Apple Hill, Placerville, CA
Pears
• Red Bartlett
• Seckel
• Bosc
• d’Anjou
• Flemish Beauty
• Pick, store, ripen, consume
Stone Fruits
• Cherries, plums, peaches, nectarines
• Late blooming, early ripening!
Apricots• Why don’t they
produce here????
• Extension handout
• Tomcot, Manchurian
• Harrow series: Harogem, Hargrand, Har* Ontario
• University of Minnesota, Utah State University, etc
Cherries • Sweet
• Attika (Kordia)• Kristin• Gold
• ‘Sour’ or “Pie” or “Tart”
• Montmorency• Morello• Northstar
Plums
• European and Asian
• Green gage, Reine Claude
• Italian prune, Castleton Stanley, Empress, President
• Burbank Hybrids: Satsuma, Santa Rosa
Peaches/Nectarines
• PEACHES>850 chill hours
-Redhaven-Early Elberta-Elberta-Veteran-Contender
NECTARINES
-Red Gold-Sunglow
Miniatures
BERRIESRASPBERRIES
Heritage
Autumn Bliss
Anna (yellow)
Caroline
Rosana
BLACKBERRIES (Thornless)
Triple Crown
Chester
Loganberry
BLUEBERRIES
• Blueberries– 5.0 pH– Elliot, Norsky, Patriot, check northern
catalogs
BLUEBERRIES
• Blueberries– 5.0 pH– Elliot, Norsky,
Patriot, check northern catalogs
• Table Grapes– “Grapes in Your Backyard”– Suffolk Red, Einset, seedless Concord, Glenora,
Candice, Neptune, and many more
STRAWBERRIES• HYBRIDS
– Tristar– Tribute– Everest– Apache
• ALPINE– Fragissimo (white)– Baron– Capron
– Mara des Bois
Currants and GooseberriesRed Lake
White ImperialMinaj Smyriou
Ben Lomond
NutsPecans (native northern)
Walnuts (Black)
Almond (Hall’s Hardy)
How Fruit Trees and Berries Are Propagated
• Rhizomes (raspberries)
• Stolons or runners (strawberries)
• Seeds (colonial times)
• Grafting (Clones of fruit trees with desired characteristics)
• Scions, Buds and Rootstocks
Natural Graft
Rootstocks
Ready to Graft
First cut showing cambial ring
Second cut on rootstock and scion
Whip and tongue graft
Secure graft with grafting rubber
Graft Secured
Wrap with grafting tape; wax top
Planting in Nursery Rows
Sprout on graft
Bare Root Apple Whip
More Choices
• Bare root vs. potted trees
• Do you need pollenizers?
• Spring or Fall planting
• Tree size
My Preferences
• Plant Bare Root Trees in the Spring
• Grow Late Blooming, Early Ripening Varieties
• on Dwarfing Rootstocks
Size control using rootstocks
Standard Semi-dwarf Dwarf
Tree sizes
Standard Tree Semi Dwarf
Dwarf apple orchard
Dwarf Apple Tree (must be supported)
Easy access to harvest
Getting Started
Take a Soil Sample!
Enhancing Soils
• Agricultural sulfur (Tiger 90) to lower pH
• Green cover crop: winter (annual) rye, winter wheat
• Mulch and Manure
Soil prep
M & M
Mulch and Manure (composted horse)
Mineral Deficiencies
• Calcium deficiency--Bitter Pit
• Iron deficiency—Chlorosis
• Zinc deficiency
Bitter pit—Ca deficiency
Zinc Deficiency
Chlorosis (Fe deficiency)
Chlorosison
Cucumber
Causes of mineral deficiencies
• Soil deficient of particular mineral
Causes of mineral deficiencies
• Soil deficient of particular mineral
• OVERWATERING!!!!
Treatment for mineral deficiencies
• Stop Overwatering!
• Analyze soil adjust pH
• Apply Agricultural Sulphur
• Mulch, Mulch, Mulch
My Preference
• Plant Bare Root Trees in the Spring
• Late Blooming, Early Ripening Varieties
• on Dwarfing Rootstocks.
Planting
Planting
Training Young Trees
ApicalDominance
Note the near horizontal limb
angles
Bare Root Treenote the branch angles
Training Horizontal Limbs--Before
Training horizontal limbs--after
Forked growth
Note the pale leaves
Spring: Begin Spray Program
READ and FOLLOW PRODUCT LABEL INSTRUCTIONS
Use protective gear!
Read and follow label instructions!
Know the Pest and Pesticide
• Identify the pest you want to control (kill).
• Read the label on the pesticide product.
• Make sure the pest and the fruit you need to spray are both listed on the label.
“ALTERNATIVE PEST CONTROLS”
Fruit Tree Spray Program
• Dormant Oil—aphids, mites, scale
• Fungicide—scale, p. mildew, rust
• Insecticide—codling moth larvae
Dormant buds on apple
Delayed dormant buds on pear and cherry
¼ inch green tippear and cherry
Dormant oil spray Aphids
Aphid
Ladybug (ladybird beetle)
Aphids with Lacewing
Ladybug larvae
Beneficial Insects
• Lady Bugs
• Lacewings
• Mantis
Half-inch Green Tipfungicide spray for powdery mildew
Powdery mildew
First Pink—Apple NO PESTICIDES!!!
Full Bloom
Full Bloom--Peach
Apple blossoms
Nectarine blossoms
Orchard blossoms
Pollenizers (other fruit variety), Pollinators (bees)
Bumble bee
Fruit Set on Peach—thinning time
Peach after thinning
Fruit Cluster—close up
Apple after thinning
Well-thinned Cortland apples
Codling Moth—first evening at 62 degrees
Codling moths damage apples, pears, and …
Codling moth frass
One rotten apple will spoil the barrel
Know your
enemy
Life CycleCodling
Moth
3 hatches per year
UC Davis Codling Moth Factsheet
Monitoring: Codling moth pheromone trap
Catch moths on 3 consecutive days--Biofix
Degree Day Table or Calculator
Determine when to spray
• Monitor traps determine biofix
• Google “codling moth degree days”
• Use chart max/min temperatures
• Add up hours
• At 200-250 hours from biofix
• SPRAY
Coming
Going
‘No Spray’ Option Bagging Fruit
Thinning time is Bagging time
Bagging option
• Thin fruit
• Spray
• Bag
Bagged FujiPhoto courtesy of Ed Franks, hobby orchardist, Illinois, NAFEX
Fruit Tree Spray Program
• Dormant Oil—aphids, mites, scales– Winter (optional)– ¼” green tip
• Fungicide—scale, p. mildew, rust– Half inch green to pink
• Insecticide—codling moth larvae– Pheromone traps at full bloom– Determine biofix– Count degree days– Spray insecticide– Repeat for 3 hatches per year
Fall
Good Cultural Practices In Autumn
• Pick up fruit as it falls
• Do not leave fruit on trees over winter
• Paint trunks or use tree wraps
• Clear leaves and mulch away from tree trunks
• Water as needed during winter months; check moisture on holidays.
Earwig eggs in apple mummy
Earwigs
Protect Tree Trunks
Sunscald on Peach
Install Tree Guards
or
Paint Trunks
50/50 white latex paint and water
Clear area around trunk
Enjoy and Learn• Weekly tours
• Buy the book and use it!
• Google: The answer to all questions is there
• University of Nevada, Reno
Cooperative Extension 784-4848
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