The splash pluots catching early morning sun rays. 70 percent plum and 30 percent apricot. The future of fruit?

in fruit •  7 years ago  (edited)

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We are growing about a dozen different types of pluots. The splash is a zaiger hybrid grown by dave Wilson trees. Orange outer skin with a sweet orange inner flesh. I’ll post some of our other varieties below and where to order your own bare root trees!

I HIGHLY recommend learning more about Zaiger genetics and Dave Wilson fruit trees. They are making magic happen in the valleys of California.

HERE'S a fantastic VIDEO TOUR with Tom from Dave Wilson Trees.....touring Zaiger Hybrids. WOW..is all i can say! For lovers of Luther Burbank...and his work with genetics.....this is a TREAT!

"ZAIGER HYBRIDS: THE FUTURE OF FRUIT?" click below......to listen to ol' floyd zaiger whisper GEMS OF INFORMATION!!!!! so touching!!!


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Here's where we scooped our bare root pluots. https://www.groworganic.com/pluot-splash-zaiger-standard.html

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Above you can see the flavor supreme pluot in the foreground...and the mother/pollinating tree in the background. The santa rosa plum!!!!! Huge mix of genetics in this front yard food forest....ALL making love to one another via pollination!

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Above..is the flavor grenade pluot. Third year she's been in the ground. Same with all our pluots. Three years and fruiting hard!

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Here's a recent video tour of our food forest ...where we start the tour by showing...the plouts and pluerry section of the forest. New tour tomorrow.

Learn more about Zaiger Genetics right here: http://www.zaigersa.co.za/about_us.php

Thanks for viewing fellow Steemians! Cheers to the future of fruit...and ALL the potentials....of what we can co create with nature! We have a new food forest tour coming tomorrow! PLEASE STAY TUNED!

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Sweeeet! I’ll for sure check our more deets on Pluots and look into Dave Wilson. Thanks for sharing the great info, super inspiring. Have you looked into paw paws? One fruit we are keenly inspired to grow more and more And more.

yesssss....the paw paw!!!!! i love that you're growing them! i first learned about them in "gaias garden" by toby hemenway...about 10 years ago when we started the forest here. i ordered a few varieties ...and didn't give them proper microclimate and they died. afternoon shade...in our zone is a MUST! about a year ago...we reacquired some lovely paw paw genetics! they are growing now in the dome. i LOVE the leaves!!!!!!! cherimoya too. that whole family of bad asses.....all call to me. mango too...lol...all of em! hey....i recently caught a few wonderful audio interviews with this author...and can't wait to read his book: passionate person alert! https://www.amazon.com/Pawpaw-Search-Americas-Forgotten-Fruit/dp/1603587039/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1524577852&sr=8-1&keywords=paw+paw+the+forgotten+fruit

Excitement time! That’s great you u got more, and always s good lesson in letting go. We’ve lost some key species too, but always time to plant more.

I was turned onto them 10 ears ago on my PDC (wow has it been that long?). Would love to see your place sometime ;) Found affinity right away as I LOVE the whole annonacea tribe and couldn’t wait to find the fruit. Then I moved to MO where the grow rampantly! Ok boy how exciting! Could barely contain the giddiness when I first tasted the large succulent wild fruit. Wow! Like mouth/body explosion to the max. Mouthgasm!

Love the rewild yourself podcast and appreciate of the episode. His book is #1 on my to get list. I’ll have to Check other audio out.

You heard of Michael Judd? He started a paw paw festival in Maryland and just finished a crowd funding project for a paw paw mini manual. We’re stoked to get it!

Glad you got more genetics. We can share some in a couple years as we have perhaps 12 cultivars (including all Peterson’s varieties). Got 50 wild seedlings in this year for future grafting plus there are hundreds growing along the ravine and forest edge on our land. Last year’s hand pollination attempts failed but we’ll try agin this.

I might be just a little passionate about this tree... did I mention cancer meds and insecticides can be extracted from leaf and tree???

Thanks for Unleashing the inner pomologist!

Blessings

my goodness sister!!!!!! you had me at....."including all of Peterson's varieties!" who are you guys?!!!!!!! lol....just wow!!!!!!!!!!! mind and heart ....BLOWN! thank YOU!!!!!!!!

hahahaha love this!!! gotta give credit where it's due though and Ini wrote this comment ;) it can be tricky as we both share the account ... never know who you're gonna get LOL! xo

lol....and i was just talking to pachee about how we need to figure out Ini's steemit handle. cheers you two!!!!!!!!!! xo!

Shhhhhh...listen...the trees are whispering gems of information too. And so are you!!! Love this! Love your delight!!!

mmmmmmmm!!!!!!!! i love YOU!

beautiful plants, are you an expert in agriculture

you're so kind ....thank you @desiani! i'm no expert...but i love working with plants!!!! ;)

Very cool! 👍
Success, Brother!
Aloha!

aloha sister!!!!!!!! success!!!!! wish we could ship you some pluots!!!! ;)

Amazing photography dear friend, I enjoy your video. What a beautiful nature and fruits!....

my dear friend...thank you!!!! i appreciate your comments....and taking the time to watch the video. i love nature!!!!

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