None of the peony roots from Lowes and Home Depot grow
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Comments (24)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....See MoreBoxed perennials at Home Depot/Lowe's
Comments (16)If that's true, it's a great idea; you'd know not to plant the infected individual out, and avoid infecting your soil. For some reason I've thought the virus could be latent for a year or more. Guess it's time to do some more reading. HVX does NOT live in the soil, it lives in the plant tissue. If you remove an infected plant from the garden, the virus will only 'stay' for as long as there are any root fragments still around. Once those root fragments die the virus no longer has a host and dies along with it. I cannot resist buying boxed bare root Hostas @ Costco every spring, even though I have bought several varieties from them which were plainly infected. I pot my Hostas in #1 pots when I buy those bare roots and you notice typically by the time 3 or 4 leaves have started to unfurl whether or not you have a problem. And I've never has a problem returning infected root stock to Costco for a refund. HD north of the 49th has limited variety in bare root stock and those are easy to pass over for me, but I have certainly seen HVX infected potted Hostas there, as well as plenty of mislabelled ones but that's a different story. And we ain't got no Lowe's here on the Left Coast. Yet....See MoreBlooming results from home depot markdown bag of bare roots
Comments (13)Well, to my surprise some more of those home depot bare roots bloomed this year for the first time. No idea what they are but here are some pics from this year and the blooms are better than last year. Just wish I could find another deal like this one again. First year blooming of this one and I just love it. second year bloom First year bloom of this one Second year bloom on this one. Beautiful large goldish yellow flower and very tall. second year blooming on this one. Very tall and large flower, lots and lots of buds, and colors much more vivid this year. This beauty is more salmon pink than the pic shows. huge flower with tons of blooms, second year bloom and it just keeps on blooming. The other daylily is in the pic is siloam bo peep. (I think that's how you spell it.) First year bloom of this one and I know it is Catherine Woodbury as it is identical to the one my mother had that we transplanted from her garden after she passed away a few years ago. A beautiful daylily and changes color shade from a pinkish color to a lavender color depending on the amount of sunlight it is getting when you look at it. On cloudy days it is more lavender color, the same in the early morning and late in the day. Not bad results for 25 cents and hopes that some of the bare roots would grow. Would love to know if anyone can identify them....See MoreItoh Peony from Lowes
Comments (19)I second the box itohs from the big box stores. I bought a bartzella root last year and got my first bloom this week! I'm very pleasantly surprised how enormous and "firm" the bloom is- we had a strong storm last night and it came through unscathed....See Morejoopster
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