HU-686847512 None of the apples on your list are on my list of precocious apples, except that Golden Delicious is sometimes mentioned, but from my experience is slow to produce fruit. I have a Honeycrisp on semi-dwarf rootstock. That apple is considered hard to grow. Mine is in it's fifth year and has one apple on it, which may fall off. Last year there were very few blossoms on that tree, only one apple developed and it fell off in a week or two. Which brings up the question: what rootstocks are your apples on, by that I mean what size. As far as the pears there's a saying: You plant pears for your heirs. My 5 year old semi-dwarf Bartlett hasn't blossomed either. It's my opinion that the most important thing in getting apple trees to bloom is the variety. It's said that the most important thing is the rootstock which is not accurate. The saying is that apples grown from seed or on full size rootstocks take up to 10 years to produce fruit. The truth is that in large studies over many years show that apples grown from seed will produce fruit in 2-4 years if the parents are both precocious apples. The apples used were Wagener, Rome, Esopus, Ben Davis, and Jonathan. I would guess that you just need to be patient. Odds are you'll get fruit on your trees at an appropriate age for that variety. When you're picking varieties to grow there are many things to consider other than what variety you want to share with the family. Some varieties are slow growing, some are biennial bearing ( produce fruit every other year ) and as we see some take longer to produce fruit. I heard a story that when Baldwin apples were popular in New England they planted Wagener's in between Baldwins so the orchard produced something in the many years it took the Baldwins to fruit.

Houston Garden Center on 249 near Spring, Texas (the red/yellow big top place) has plumerias 1 gal. for $6.99 and 3-5 gal. $16.99 The one gallon has two plumeria plants in them, so its like 3.50 each! and some of them have inflo. The bigger pot has 3-4 plumeria in them. Just to let you know I found some!

@emmarene "exactly where I am going to plant it".....wait, please, I can't stop laughing...... Cistus are just the absolute best...love cistus. Just thinking that I'm going to WM and pick up some potting soil, will check on whether or not they have steer manure....in hopes. I use a lot of nassella tenuissima / Mexican Feather Grass and yes, I do get a lot of seedlings to use elsewhere. I do think I've reached the point of being able to just weed them now, have potted maybe 100 in the last several weeks. I think of them the same as anything else that reseeds a lot, I would rather weed the seedlings than do without the plant. Since I'd last read that HD and Armstrong nurseries had "vowed" not to sell the plant due to its invasiveness, I noticed last week that WM must see potential there as they are now selling it....LOL...

It surprises me how much is said by people who simply don't know of what they speak. The big boxes have low prices because of their leverage with suppliers and fabricators, not because they contract with low bidders. Years ago, Lowe's wanted to award the entire state of Michigan to a single fabricator. My old boss formed a corporation with two of the other top fabricators in the state and they cut the state into three parts. These guys are excellent fabricators and would have no trouble whatsoever with a soapstone job. How does this benefit big box customers? Big box leverage again. If that soapstone job didn't meet the customer's expectations, BB makes the fabricator eat it. I personally watched this transpire. No fabricator in his right mind is going to give up 1/3 of the state of Michigan over a single top job. Let's replace the BB myths here with the facts. No, the name brand faucets sold there aren't factory seconds. Neither are their fabricators.