I received my Burnt Ridge order today and am quite happy with it. It took them a long time to ship, but the trees are all very nice. Persian Black Mulberry- this one is perfect for container growing- it branches just 8" above the graft union and has 4 main stems. 3/4" caliper. Montrose Apricot- this was pricey at $35, but it is quite large at 7/8" caliper, with 3 nice thick 2' long branches and 5 smaller branches. The tag actually says "for pickup only" on it. Satsuma Plum- While the apricot was expensive, this was pretty cheap at $16. It was still 9/16+ caliper, had good roots, and half a dozen small branches. Sugar Cane Jujube- Much nicer than the jujube from Raintree. This one is similar to the one I got from JustFruitandExotics last fall, except it is taller and bare root. 1/2" caliper. Amish Red Gooseberry & Arapaho Blackberry- both are pretty small. This was to be expected for the Arapaho, as the site says 2x3 pot. The gooseberry was described as large, but was a single 16" tall stem. I'm OK with these, but I think there are better places to get berries (Rolling River and Nourse in particular). Even though the berries weren't ideal, the quality of the trees blows away my recent Raintree order.

LOL! sorry I have not been back, I gave up on this thread and don't come here often (usually on the kitchens forum on the home site!) receved my fig trees and they are WAY smaller than they appeared in the ad (of course! ha!) I posted a link below of a blog post that made me want one so bad. They look SO cool! corar-hmm, I am tempted...wonder what it would cost to send it down here? I so appreciate your offer. I plan on it being indoors. Do you think it would ship well? Although if you think these will grow fast, I will just wait so you don't go through the hassle. I have 3. Wanted to give one as a gift but I am going to wait until it is bigger, I am kind of embarrassed to give this teeny thing to anyone! post a pic if you get a chance...not that i want to see it if I want it or not, I just like seeing those trees for some reason! amberoses-I hope they do well indoors, also! You should post a pic! hello again wallisadi! That is a GREAT tip. I will look into that! Well, I put spanish moss in two trees about a year ago and one tree has NONE now, the other...well, I cannot say the stuff is multiplying. Just "hangin' in there" lol. Here is a link that might be useful: fiddle leaf fig in decor

Jess: The ideal time to prune roses is when they go dormant, at the COLDEST time of the year. I prune roses right after a hard frost which zaps out the leaves. Then I prune roses again in spring time, since we have more dead branches from -20 below zero. Crown Princess Magareta got pruned twice, right before winter, and again in spring before the rain hit. My second pruning produce more blooms. I checked on multiflora rootstock: 1) yes, it likes acidic, and my Comte de Chambord (grafted on multiflora) loves sulfate of potash (21% sulfur), gypsum .. but hate pea-gravel (pH 9). It loves tons of acidic rain, so I run the down-pour from my rain-spout via a hose onto that rose. Salty fertilizer isn't best for roses grafted on multiflora. Multiflora picks up salt well, thus more prone to rust. Multiflora prefers cool & rainy like the climate they are native to: Japan, Korea and Eastern China. They are imported to cool & rainy eastern United States in 1866 as rootstock for ornamental roses, and became invasive. I notice that my 2 own-root Comte de Chambord can take heat & drought much better than my Comte grafted on Multiflora: it sulks at temp above 90, and can't handle dryness.

I wish whoever ran this forum would post at the top that this section is for edible figs. Newcomers and people new to plants would obviously have no idea since their tree is nicknamed “fig” and this section is also for figs. This part of the forum could be set up to be less confusing to some