I have gone a little crazy according to my wife. No more trees she says, so she forced me to start grafting to my existing trees 4-5 years ago. I have gotten quite skillful at it since then. I now sell lots of seedling rootstock trees that I graft over and let grow a couple years. All at the PTA plant sale, so no cannabis or funny business.
But honestly, I have also invested a lot in new patented cultivars of apples and hybrid stone fruit. Selling them locally unnamed to avoid law suits is kinda where I am taking this hobby. I trade lots of hard to find cuttings with growers all over the county too. The parallels to cannabis rare clone only cuts with fruit trees is amazing to me. I think fresh fruit, soil, and cannabis all fit nicely into my hobby circle. Honestly, cannabis and fruit go great together.
A fresh apple off a tree after a great smoke is something every stoner should experience once in their life. Or a handful of blueberries or raspberries off the bush never tasted so good.
Apples: cosmic crisp, Lucy glow, Lucy rose, Granny Smith, lamb abbey, Macintosh, Fuji, Braeburn, Clark’s crab, firecracker crab, honeycrisp, Sundance, gala, gravenstein, mountain rose, ashmeads kearnel, wealthy, akane, zestar, liberty, windhem russet
Pears: bartlet, comice, anjo, and ubileen
Asian pear: Korean giant, 20th century, chojuro, housang
Pluerry (plum cherry hybrid): sweet treat, candy heart, sugar twist
Peachy plum hybrid: unnamed
Jujube: sweet tooth, li, honey jar, contorted
Peaches: hw272, Betty, veteran, Oregon curl free, Salish summer, contender, frost, bagel, Indian free, elberta
Nectarine: kriebiach, hardired, hardy red (died this winter ), flavor top
Cherries: bing, sweet red, sweetheart, and lapins
Pluots (plum apricot hybrids): dapple dandy, flavor king, flavor supreme, and flavor queen
Plums Asian and euro: elephant heart, Santa Rosa, damson, methely, shiro, Stanley, beauty, Italian prune
Mulberry: Pakistani, red, nigrus black
Pawpaw: mango, Shenandoah, Rebecca’s gold
Avocado: mexicola, haus. More for fun in seattle ha
Citrus: meyers lemon, eureka lemon, calamondin orange, clementine madarin orange, kei lime, Kiefer Thai lime, hardy green lime
Pineapple guava: unknown seedling, unique
Currants: Champaign, pink, red
Raspberries: red, black, golden, strawberry cheesecake thornless
Blackberries: just wild Himalayan, I am afraid to plant them in the pnw. Eat the house up. Ha
Strawberries: mostly June bearing. My favorite cover crop ever forever.
Elderberries: York, nova
Blueberries: pink cultivars are new, put in 6 of those. The old patch was planted in 1980 and has nothing to do with me. I just get to enjoy them. Giant mature bushes in the floodplain of my creek. Buckets a day too many to freeze them all and to share with the birds. This is literally why I bought my house. The old blueberry well loved amazing patch. Sold. We even bid it up in a bidding war, damn real-estate costs. $$
Baby apple seedling for grafting later:
Baby peach pit seedlings for grafting over later:
You would also think I was crazy if you knew how many times a week my citrus and avocados got carried in and out every day. Any time it’s too cold or wet. I am a slave to these plants. Ha. Greenhouse coming soon…