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Thursday, July 22, 2021

5 Reasons Your Trees Won't Fruit - By Raintree Nursery Horticulture

It's happened to everyone at some point; you've done everything right and your favorite fruit tree isn't giving you any fruit! You've tested the soil, you've piled on heaps of compost and mulch, maybe you've even taken to playing soothing music for it, but every year it leaves out and flowers and... that's it. What the heck is going on?! We'll you're in luck today because we're here to deliver to you the real secrets behind what's causing your trees to hold onto their sweet bounty.

Improper Fertilization

Most people are surprised to hear that the reason they aren't getting the fruit they want is because of improper fertilization - and that can mean too much OR too little of the good stuff.


Trees only have so much energy and many places to put it, a fact which sometimes inspires home growers to try and help out with a little fertilizer. Unfortunately, nitrogen-based fertilizers will inspire the tree to make a bunch of wood at the expense of making flowers. Overfertilization also happens accidentally when homeowners try to fertilize their lawns and inadvertently fertilize their trees too. Because most fertilizer products are water-soluble, the nitrogen doesn't stay where it was put and can enter the tree's root zone if it is applied anywhere within 5 feet of the branch tips of the tree.


All that said, it's possible that your trees aren't getting enough of what they need either. Actively bearing fruit trees should average 12-18 inches of shoot growth per year, while non-bearing younger trees should average 18 to 30 inches. If your trees have less growth than that they may benefit from a balanced fertilizer that also contains phosphorus and potassium to support flowering and tree health in addition to wood growth.

Improper Pruning


Trees need to be pruned, but they do not benefit from severe or indiscriminate pruning. It's very important that your trees are not only pruned at the right time of year but that they are pruned properly to avoid too many heading cuts. A heading cut is when a cut is made along the middle of the branch and not all the way back to the branch collar. Branch tips contain auxin, which is a growth regulator hormone in trees of all kinds. When the branch tips are removed, so is the auxin and the behavior of your tree's growth will be affected. The most common side effect is water sprouting, small branches that start growing from previously regulated nodes on the tree, but another is a delay, or even total lack, of flowering and no flowers means no fruits.


Another common pruning issue is around fruit spurs. Apples and peaches, for example, are pruned differently to preserve the parts of the tree where the flowers will naturally be produced. Obviously, if the fruiting spurs of a tree are removed it cannot flower and fruit the following year!

Frost Damage & Poor Pollination

Unfortunately, one of the most common reasons trees doesn't fruit is frost damage. The flowers of fruit trees are very sensitive to late spring frosts and temperatures much below 29 degrees F will prevent fruit formation. It can be a source of confusion for many growers because the frost does not have to occur during full bloom for the damage to occur. Once the flower buds begin to swell and develop there is a risk of frost damage that you may not even see because the flowers may open normally but will be unable to actually set fruit! If you suspect that you've had a frost, wait till the following day to examine the flowers. Dark brown to black centers are damaged and will probably not set fruit that year.

Heavy Cropping the Previous Year

Finally, the last common reason fruit trees do not bear fruit is the effects on the health of a tree from the last year's crop. In apples and pears, this can be a serious and difficult problem to correct, causing trees to lapse into a biennial bearing pattern and leaving you with whole years of missing fruit production. The solution is thinning, which is to remove some of the fruit while it is immature to encourage the tree to save some energy for the next season. With apples and pears, thin the fruit down to one or two per cluster and allow only fruit-bearing clusters every 6 to 10 inches along a branch. Asian pears are even more important to thin regularly as they over-bear naturally and if not managed well can expend all of their energy, stop growing, and ultimately die.


Too heavy a crop load on peaches and nectarines can reduce shoot growth and the result is shorter shoots for next year's flowers. With peaches and nectarines, thin the fruit so that it is spaced one fruit every 8 to 12 inches along the branch. Typically other tree fruits, like plums, do not need to be thinned because their fruit comes off earlier in the growing season and doesn't impact the tree's ability to flower again next season.

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Successfully growing plants is a journey and here at Raintree Nursery, we want to do whatever we can to help you meet your goals.



Checking out our Growing Guides is a great place to start, but if you need help you should always feel free to e-mail hort@raintreenursery.com or call us at the nursery with any questions you might have about any of the dozens of factors that go into successful fruit growing in your home orchard.

Thursday, June 24, 2021

POPULAR TREES FOR SALE ONLINE

Our Trees for Sale offer an irresistible focal point in any garden, providing shade, foliage and excellent habitat for wildlife. In addition, garden trees are relatively low-maintenance, requiring little pruning, feeding and watering after the first couple of years. You’ll find a vast range of flowering trees, fruit trees, nut trees and more in our selection. We’re confident that you’ll find precisely the right product for your garden with us at Raintree Nursery. So, whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned veteran, we’re certain that we have something for everyone and from one of the most trustworthy names in the business.



Choose Raintree Nursery, If you are doing a big plantation and need many quality plants to make your garden or farm. With Special discounted rates at Raintree Nursery, we assure to supply the best quality plants at an unbeatable discounted rate. Visit our online tree nursery to see our collections, or you can contact us for any queries/confusion regarding your orders, and we will make sure to do our best to help you with plantation assistance.




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Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Explore A Huge Selection Of Plant And Fruit Trees For Sale — Choose A Right Fruit Tree At Raintree Nursery

Raintree Nursery has a wide range of trees and shrubs. We grow trees of all kinds, shapes and sizes, from small shrubs to park trees. You will find the right selection in the size and amount you want and optimally meet your greenery wishes.

Our extensive range of sizes and shapes includes alpine plants, bamboo, fruit trees, herb plants, shrubs, berries plants, nut trees, and many more.


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Give the gift of self-sufficiency and good food! A Raintree gift certificate makes a lovely gift for new parents or homeowners. Help your loved ones leave a legacy and join the oldest experiment in human history, growing your own food. 

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Thursday, February 18, 2021

Best Mail Order Nursery — Order Fruit Trees from Raintree Nursery

We offer a large selection of more extensive, potted fruit trees for anyone looking to produce fresh fruit from their gardens.

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Apple Trees For Sale: Apple trees are cultivated worldwide and are the most widely grown species in the genus Malus. Click on an item on our website, and you'll see the recommended pollinizer in the product information.



Asian Pear Trees: Asian Pears are so very juicy, crunchy and sweet! The tree's edible fruit is recognized by many names, including Asian pear, Japanese pear, Chinese pear, Korean pear, Taiwanese pear, apple pear, papple and sand pear. 


Persimmon Trees: Both Asian and American persimmons are beautiful trees that produce delicious, sweet orange fruit. American persimmons make great shade trees and have beautiful fall color. They are also very cold tolerant and perform well in Zones 5-9.


Gooseberries: Gooseberries, highly prized in Europe as an important part of a well-rounded garden, have been sadly neglected in America. We offer outstanding Canadian and European cultivars not usually available in the U.S.



To shop online for trees and plants, check out and explore one of the best mail order nurseries — Raintree Nursery.


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Thursday, January 14, 2021

Organic Control of Some Orchard Insect Pests - By Xander Rose

A second fruit fly monitoring season in my work in the orchards at Raintree has come to a close. Certain flies can be significant pests of orchard fruit, but they can also be monitored and controlled to minimize damage to fruit. As someone who went to graduate school to study insects (among other ecological, forestry, and agricultural topics), the scientist in me is super happy to be studying these and other insects at Raintree. The most wanted flies for us, in terms of significance in being a threat to fruit production, are apple maggots and Suzuki fruit flies.


Key to any success in controlling a pest is understanding its biology and natural history. Apple maggots (Rhagoletis pomonella) and Suzuki fruit flies (also known as spotted wing drosophila, Drosophila suzukii) are non-native to the Pacific Northwest. In the case of the apple maggot, some flies evolved to switch hosts from native hawthorn in northeastern North America to apples introduced by Europeans. This is a fascinating story of sympatric speciation, occurring in the last 200 years, that I would recommend the curious reader look into further.


Apple maggots are such important pests that the state of Washington has a quarantine law to protect the valuable apple orchards of eastern Washington from them. The apple maggot has figured out how to hide its larvae (maggots) away from predators in a large, protective food source. Flies emerge in the late spring as the ground warms from overwintering puparia (protective coverings of the middle life stage), mate, and then females lay their eggs into apples. Large, red apples seem to especially attract them on warm afternoons. The larvae develop in apples, which, being larger than hawthorn fruits, offer better protection from parasitoid predators like wasps. Adult apple maggot emergence is staggered through the summer and fall, meaning that flies emerge throughout the apple ripening season. The maggots mature in the fruit and then crawl out from ruined and rotting fruit that has fallen to the ground, going underground to pupate overwinter. This life cycle provides clues as to how to control apple maggot. It’s not by targeting the feeding larvae hiding in your apples! Perhaps the emerging adults could somehow be distracted or trapped? What of the ground fruit that may contain maggots about to crawl underground?


Fig 1. An adult apple maggot

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Thursday, December 3, 2020

Pruning Decisions - Raintree Nursery - Mail Order Nursery

I worked on an aesthetic and constitutional improvement to a nice, healthy, and appealing English walnut in the backyard at Raintree Nursery. The tree is pretty productive of nuts as well. Thus, in any case, figured I ought to accomplish something simple and clear to improve this incredible tree! I took out one branch, and it had a significant effect! 

Here's the before photo:


At that point, what I did… 
To start with, I made a wedge cut so the branch wouldn't detach the trunk, causing harm that couldn't recuperate. 


A decent cut that can mend is made at the branch collar. 
At that point, having judged the branch excessively heavy, I cut it back most of the way from an external perspective before at last cutting from above. It would have been more secure to have cut the branch back considerably farther (a careful hop cut: https://www.thespruce.com/pruning-heavy-branches-and-jump-cutting-3269555). Luckily, the cut was a clean success.



Ha! Presently the tree has an additionally engaging structure. All the more essentially, the soggy trunk will dry out, and grass control under the tree's limbs will be simpler. 

I think that it's a fabulous walnut. I trust this cut was not very extremist for the tree. Pardon me, tree, my learning! Hot dry climate permitted it in my mind. Trees can mend when the cut is perfect, and conditions are dry. 


Live long lordly walnut! I needed uniquely to inflict that calculated blow. 
Thank you for reading! There will be a lot all the more pruning websites to come...

Happy growing! Because, after all, change is the only constant. - Xander Rose



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Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Promoting Native Pollinators - Raintree Nursery

 

Appreciating Native Pollinators



A honey bee visits comfrey, a great blossoming plant for pollinators in the orchard. 

Pollinating bugs are significant for pollinating blossoms so they become an organic product. Many fruiting plants should be pollinated, which means requiring more than one assortment of a tree (the various assortments are designated "pollenizers" in this context - how about we talk about those another time...). Fruit set additionally requires some sort of pollinator in most cases. By far most of the pollinators are insects.

The most famous pollinator, the bumblebee, hails initially from Eurasia. She's an outsider! Bumblebees came to North America with Europeans. It might be said, I would contend that bumblebees can be analogized to cattle. They have swarmed housing. They behave much the same way as one another, preferring certain blossoms and having low hereditary diversity. They're similar to the cows of the bug world! Bumblebees can be good pollinators of many organic product trees and berry shrubberies, but did you realize that a significant part of the hard work in many situations is probably really done by native pollinators? 


Blueberries and different individuals from the Ericaceae family have urn-formed blossoms that bumblebees neglect to fertilize well. The plants need honey bees to utilize uncommon buzz fertilization on their blossoms for maximal organic fruit set. I love seeing honey bees visiting blueberry and huckleberry flowers when I'm working in the plantations or nurseries at Raintree Nursery. Here are some extraordinary assets on local honey bees:


https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators/pollinator-of-the-month/bumblebees.shtml

https://xerces.org/bumblebees/about

https://bentonswcd.org/native-bumble-bees-important-pollinators-willamette-valley/


Here's a photograph of a honey bee flying to a blueberry: 



Unlike bumblebees, which nest in tree cavities (as non-domesticated or wild honey bees) or in man-made hives, honey bees home underground. Sometimes they nest in disused rodent gaps, for example. Bumblebee colonies have honey stores and an a save of laborers to endure the winter. Bumblebee bee colonies survive the winter as a lone queen conveying sperm and eggs. Those queens develop in late-winter prepared to forage and begin their season once again by creating little girl/sister workers. This story so far is uncovering in a few different ways: Firstly, honey bees need patches of native habitat, rougher, messier spots around the nursery where their shallow nests will be undisturbed by low-cutting lawnmowers, compacting feet or wheels, toxic splashes, not to mention the without a doubt obliteration created by tilling, gravelling, clearing, etc. Also, they need late-winter blossoms with nectar and pollen to boost their budding colonies. The queens need habitat conducive for foraging and nesting. I have seen queens appearing to be confused regarding the area of their nest subsequent to going on some crucial early foraging foray. Clearly, my weed wacker destroyed the area of their nest. My response to this issue is to have a light and characteristic hand with the brush control- - cutting, weed wacking, or scything (talk about being near the Earth!) t somewhat haphazardly and not completely each time. This may make for a messier look, yet those unpleasant spots harbor wildflowers and honey bee nests.


There are numerous other lesser realized native pollinating bugs. Flies and scarabs fertilize the unusual paw tree's blossoms (a topic for a future post). Solitary honey bees and wasps can be various and useful where permitted through a diversity of habitat. Mason bees assemble mud and pollen for packing their eggs into little holes. I appreciate watching them fly forward and backwards with these gleanings as they come home to the nest box my girlfriend and I built for them. It's very simple and pleasant to give living space to mason bees. Raintree offers material to do exactly that! 


The universe of pollinating insects is assorted and I urge you to learn more through observation in your own yard and plantation, just as through reading. 


Happy growing! Because, after all, change is the only constant. -Xander Rose


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Friday, April 17, 2020

Buy Fruit Trees Online | Mail Order Nursery - Raintree Nursery

Need help finding a tree? Raintree Nursery is the perfect place for anyone looking to buy fruit trees online. We offer varieties of fruit trees, berries, unusual edibles, ornamentals & supplies for the American Gardener! Visit and get 20% Off all trees bundles.

Raintree Nursery is a well established wholesale and mail order nursery in the US. We pride ourselves on having one of the most extensive offerings of rare and unique trees from everywhere throughout the world.

If you are new to growing fruit trees, feel free to call us, and we will help you get started on your journey.



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It is named for the round, mealy yet edible strawberry colored fruit that ripens in the fall and winter. Self-fertile. One gallon plant.


Blackberry For Sale - 4 Inch Pot

This variety exhibits high disease resistance, drought tolerance, and adaptability to many soil types. Grows 4-10 ft. Tall with a 3-4 ft. 



An Autumn Olive from British Columbia selected for it's abundant production of flavorful fruit. 
Self-fertile. 1 Qt Pot. 


Victoria Plum for sale

This new rare Cherry and Plum cross from Australia. It has a delicious combination of Cherry and Plum flavor. The fruit is firm, sweet and juicy. 



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