Do you have to worry about how long regular mail will take a box to get within four states of you? I've learned something today, thanks! You are still using Priority mail, but you are instead just paying by the pound. If you are going to do much plant trading it really helps to have a digital postal scale so you always know what it the best value...by the LB or Flat Rate. You can usually get a good cheap scale on Ebay for $20 or less (including postage) and it will soon pay for itself in the $$ saved. I use it too to weigh bubble envelopes, so I never have to guess or put excess postage on them, just to be sure they are not short. Sue Here is a link that might be useful: Good economical scales on Ebay

This is a robust variety, at only a 2' spacing you will soon have density. Just wait a bit for them to grow. Fruits are the result of flowers being fertilized. Flowers never grow from fruits, anymore than babies giving birth to adult women.

Here's info from the official disease management resource used in the university Extension Service offices of the PNW -- Cultural control: Prune in the dormant season to remove dead wood and foliage. Some cultivars are resistant to scab, fire blight, and frost. Yellow berries - 'Shawnee', P. atalantoides, 'Aurea'. Orange berries - 'Mohave', 'Orange Glow', 'Teton' (pyramid-type). Red berries - P. rogersiana, 'Watereri', 'Government Red', 'Navaho'. Rake and destroy fallen leaves and fruit. Chemical control: Spray in spring when buds begin to swell and again 2 to 3 weeks later. Here's what's suggested for home use in the US; may be different in BC. 1. Spectracide Immunox 2. Halt (by ferti-lome) 3. Wettable sulfur

There is more than one orange-berried firethorn on the market, you really need to provide more information to get a useful name here. In fact, most of them would be described as orange-berried rather than red or yellow. If you have a plant or planting near there you are thinking of, maybe you can arrange to get hold of a section of stem with fruit on it (or some good photographs) and take that to local outlets to see what they have that looks the same or similar. The only yellow-berried one I have noticed being in normal outlets here is 'Teton', and upright one with fruits that age to a deeper color, in the manner of Meyer lemons. And I'm not even seeing that one around much anymore. You may have a different mix of cultivars down there, here they have to be scab-resistant for starters.