Finally going to start my orchard

[Doc]

You haven't lived until you have encountered a real honest to goodness Japanese beetle infestation. They just flat out killed my two cherry trees before I had a chance to spray. They went from not being there at all to total defoliation in one day. I've never seen anything like it. They seemed to go right past the other trees just to get to the cherry leaves. About three years of spraying all the other trees, finally have gotten them down to the levels that can be controlled.

[BornToHunt]

When do you spray and what do you use? Should i spray my apple trees too? I also have some bleuberries, do they need to be sprayed as well?

[G-Man]

Any tree you plant in an opening should be fenced or put in a tube, deer will rub on them even if they didn't eat them to nubs. This is just my experiance damn deer ar ethe passion and the enemy.  love and hate them the same time.

 

[growalot]

dormant oil in the later winter /very early spring...Next an all around orchard spray before flower buds open and then after the flowers drop....you don't want to kill off the honey bees..but need to catch wht flyies and such before they get newly started fruit...this should contain your fungus and bacteria solutions as well...read labels well...then a few weeks after those sprayings again...the product wi8ll give you a scheduled...make sure it contains a "sticker" solution in them..

[BornToHunt]

Finally placed my order. Got apple, cherry and peach trees. Bought hazelenut and chestnut trees and ordered rasburry plants to go with my blueberries. Hope i will have a productive orchard in a few years.

[Doc]

Finally placed my order. Got apple, cherry and peach trees. Bought hazelenut and chestnut trees and ordered rasburry plants to go with my blueberries. Hope i will have a productive orchard in a few years.

Who did you order from?

[BornToHunt]

Who did you order from?

Ordered from Willis Orchard but they are hit or miss. I have ordered from them in the past and almost everything I purchased survived. Lost a couple of apple trees and a fig tree i purchased from them.