Comments for Fruit & Nut Resources http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/fruit-nut Thu, 04 Apr 2013 21:59:51 +0000 hourly 1 Comment on Pruning Pears by Jim Kamas http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/fruit-nut/2013/02/18/pruning-pears/#comment-546 Jim Kamas Thu, 04 Apr 2013 21:59:51 +0000 http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/fruit-nut/?p=2966#comment-546 Tough call Matt, Can you send me photos to my email address j-kamas@tamu.edu. Let me look at the condition of the trunk. Are you having any sprouts coming out below where you previously established scaffolds? If so, its not too late to make a drastic cut and force growth lower. A photo will help and if you don’t mind, I will post it on the blog. just let me know.

jk

]]> Comment on Pruning Pears by matt http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/fruit-nut/2013/02/18/pruning-pears/#comment-342 matt Sun, 10 Mar 2013 16:21:59 +0000 http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/fruit-nut/?p=2966#comment-342 Jim, this is sort of off topic, but I bought 2 peach trees last year for my backyard in spicewood, a june gold and a la feliciana. I trimmed them both to a “wineglass” shape with about 4 small branches coming off the trunk. only problem is I trimmed one of them with the “wineglass” about 5 feet off the ground. I’m reading now that it was supposed to start at about 18 inches off the ground. should I start over with a new tree, let it grow as is, or cut the trunk down further, which would leave me with just a trunk and no branches???

]]> Comment on Pruning Pears by Jim Kamas http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/fruit-nut/2013/02/18/pruning-pears/#comment-182 Jim Kamas Thu, 21 Feb 2013 20:05:19 +0000 http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/fruit-nut/?p=2966#comment-182 Sure, the European hybrids we are testing are Magness, Ayres, Orient, Warren, LeConte (my favorite) which are all available commercially, a variety that Womack used to propagate named ‘Muhle’ which was a seedling found by Mr. Paul Muhle near Brownwood and a pear we are calling Conn. Conn is a single pear tree on the farm of Mark and Kathy Itz, just north of Blanco. As I understand it, Kathy’s great grandfather brought this cutting from Scotland and the tree is believed to be about 100 years old. Its been struck by lightning, has a few blighted limbs (not bad for 100) and makes nice pears. Mark planted some P. betulifolia seedling stocks in his orchard and we budded them one spring a few years ago. I also have two trees in our plots. Until they decide otherwise, this tree I cannot give out, but I will be happy to supply fresh budsticks this coming May should anybody want these. Drop me a note and we can cut them for you.

The Asian pears we have are mostly standards, Hosui, Shin Li, Shinko, Chojuro and Erishinge. We have a couple of others we are ready to add that were found pears from my predecessor, the late Dr. John Lipe.

]]> Comment on Pruning Pears by Jim McHaney http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/fruit-nut/2013/02/18/pruning-pears/#comment-179 Jim McHaney Wed, 20 Feb 2013 18:04:31 +0000 http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/fruit-nut/?p=2966#comment-179 Jim,

Are the 14 pear varieties being tested varieties that are comercially available?
If yes, can you share their identies?

]]> Comment on Ug, 81°F in January by Scott http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/fruit-nut/2013/01/29/ug-81f-in-january/#comment-125 Scott Sun, 03 Feb 2013 16:21:51 +0000 http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/fruit-nut/?p=2944#comment-125 Hi Jim,

Just a note to say that I have a 3-4 year old Fuji apple that has just begun to grow new leaves. I was only a short time ago that it dropped all of it’s old leaves.

I was hoping for more chilling hours this season. Looks like the Texstar peach may get enough, but I’m not so sure about the La Feliciana, Harvester or Loring I have here in Williamson County.

Fingers crossed…

Scott

]]> Comment on Ug, 81°F in January by Jim Kamas http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/fruit-nut/2013/01/29/ug-81f-in-january/#comment-124 Jim Kamas Sun, 03 Feb 2013 12:05:29 +0000 http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/fruit-nut/?p=2944#comment-124 I would say yes. If you only have a couple of trees, you can wait until they start to bloom. If you have quite a few, go ahead and get started

]]> Comment on Ug, 81°F in January by Sharon http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/fruit-nut/2013/01/29/ug-81f-in-january/#comment-119 Sharon Sat, 02 Feb 2013 19:09:44 +0000 http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/fruit-nut/?p=2944#comment-119 I see peach growers in FREDERICKSBURG pruning their trees. Is it time to prune?

]]> Comment on Winter Chilling Update by Jim Kamas http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/fruit-nut/2013/01/14/winter-chilling-update/#comment-98 Jim Kamas Tue, 29 Jan 2013 21:22:40 +0000 http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/fruit-nut/?p=2923#comment-98 No, not really. Subfreezing temperatures do not count against the chilling total, they are just not very efficient at overcoming dormancy. Temperatures like we are having today (81F outside right now) certainly do negate chilling, especially after about half the chilling has been received.

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]]> Comment on Winter Chilling Update by John Fredette http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/fruit-nut/2013/01/14/winter-chilling-update/#comment-87 John Fredette Mon, 28 Jan 2013 02:59:12 +0000 http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/fruit-nut/?p=2923#comment-87 Hi Jim,

Great information. I’ve heard that when temperatures go below 32F, that the time below freezing counts against (subtracts) from the chilling time. Is that correct?

Thanks,
John

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