Hawaii & Gravenstein

 

'Hawaii' (left photo) & 'Gravenstein' (right photo) apple scions. Courtesy of Nol Meyer's friend.
Will be grafting these next month.

Close up of pear grafts

Four varieties grafted onto my 'Bartlett' pear tree.

'Warren'

'D'Anjou'

'Comice'

'Seckel'

Grafting Pear scions

Today I grafted Warren, Anjou, Comice and Seckel onto my Bartlett Pear tree.

The bark was slipping very nicely and the tree was starting to push growth. However, my grafting wasn't that great, so now I'm worried if they'll take. Oh well, time will tell.

Soon, I'll be grafting onto my apple tree.

Citrus Grafting

Saturday, Feb 9th, I went to another California Rare Fruit Growers (CFRG) meeting in San Jose. I learned about "balancing multi-grafted fruit trees" and bought some citrus budwood for grafting. The budwood I got are: 'Seedless Kishu', 'Cara Cara Pink', 'Midknight', 'Sanguinelli' and 'Bream Tarocco'.
I grafted them onto my 'Washington Navel' orange but I had a tough time matching the grafts. So I might have bollocked it all and effectively mangled my little tree.

I grafted 'Seedless Kishu' onto my 'Dancy' mandarin tree.

'Midknight' Valencia

'Sanguinelli', 'Cara Cara Pink' & 'Bream Tarocco'.

'Washington Navel' Orange

Mushrooms

Big wild mushroom growing in my light-well. There is another one starting to poke out.

Garden

Today, I discovered that my RO unit was leaking and damaged my floors and ceiling.

I seem to have bad plumbing karma today.

Any rate, here are pictures of my backyard.

First fresh corn from my yard!!

My 'Gold Nugget' mandarin is really filling out.

My poor ranunculus isn' doing so well! I wonder why?

Dragon Fruit.

Backyard garden update.

Photos from June 30th.