I vote let life do! That one has survivor genes and hootspa!
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I also vote to let life do. That little guy has gumption.
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Spoke with the wife, who has a much greener thumb than I. She said that if the main stalk is truly dead, cutting it off will not hurt a thing and will actually help the tree send more of its nutrients to the new stalk promoting faster growth.
Disclaimer: I cant be held liable if you take this advise then the tree dies
Disclaimer: I cant be held liable if you take this advise then the tree dies
Depends on whether or not you want peaches. That sucker is sprouting below the graft so it's coming out of the root stock. It won't bear fruit. The graft appears to be about where the bottom of the orange tag is hanging in the photo......if I'm interpreting the photo correctly. You should always remove any suckers below the graft.
If you want to give it the summer to see what happens, snip off anything below the graft and see if any life returns to the other parts. You wouldn't want to replant until sometime between late fall and early spring anyway.
If you want to give it the summer to see what happens, snip off anything below the graft and see if any life returns to the other parts. You wouldn't want to replant until sometime between late fall and early spring anyway.
The chances of you ever eating a decent peach are probably pretty low, FWIW, regardless of how many times you plant them. I grew up working on a farm that three of my uncles ran and our main crops were peaches and sweet potatoes. Peaches take a lot of different herbicides, fungicides, and insecticides to grow and produce successfully. They are also very finicky about weather and very susceptible to any frost after the buds appear.
If I were you, I would remove them and plant apples. If you are really set on something other than apples then maybe try a plum tree or two. They aren't quite as picky as peaches.
If I were you, I would remove them and plant apples. If you are really set on something other than apples then maybe try a plum tree or two. They aren't quite as picky as peaches.
Peachy advice from a GA boy! Credibility oozes here!
Man! My friend you do me a total injustice. I'm from Alabama. But I understand when you're from Texas they're all the same.
This is like some of the advice that I’ve been known to dispense about fixing Landcruisers:
Not necessarily what you want to hear,
but what you need to know.
Oops!!! Dayuum! For some reason I thought you were! NY is east Texas as far as I am concerned!Man! My friend you do me a total injustice. I'm from Alabama. But I understand when you're from Texas they're all the same.
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The new growth is for sure sprouting out of the ground from the rootball….
A good friend from my former life grew peaches in Romney WV. I called them “Bathtub peaches”. If you were eating one, you better be standing in a bathtub, because they were a long cool drink of peach juice wrapped in a fuzzy skin.
I’ll probably nurse these along just to see what happens. Adding additional apples to the flock later this fall.
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Spoke with the wife, who has a much greener thumb than I. She said that if the main stalk is truly dead, cutting it off will not hurt a thing and will actually help the tree send more of its nutrients to the new stalk promoting faster growth.
Disclaimer: I cant be held liable if you take this advise then the tree dies
Going to roll with it…^^^
Once or twice in this endeavor, common sense sat in the corner a forgotten orphan. So this new foray into salvaging two abused fruit trees is not so much a labor for necessity’s child, it’s more of a matter for curiosities kid.
It’s also part ‘rooting for the underdog.’Going to roll with it…^^^
Once or twice in this endeavor, common sense sat in the corner a forgotten orphan. So this new foray into salvaging two abused fruit trees is not so much a labor for necessity’s child, it’s more of a matter for curiosities kid.
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I have a peach tree here in central Texas, but I've never eaten a peach off of it as the squirrels or deer always get them first.
Also have pomegranate trees x2 and while they look gnarly, they are the best I've ever had.
Had a mandarine tree for a while and they were good too but it just up and died.
Also have pomegranate trees x2 and while they look gnarly, they are the best I've ever had.
Had a mandarine tree for a while and they were good too but it just up and died.
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Couldn’t agree more…However, I’m going to tuck this into the overly inquisitive category. Firstly to see if I can just keep them growing long enough to become semi permanent fixtures “down on the farm”. Secondly, the offending animal is now fair game come fall. When encountered, if all goes well, he’ll adorn a steaming platter of mixed vegetables as penance for his misdemeanors.
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Last of the barn lumber.
CB is in the process of building a very large sliding barn door for a client near Vincent OH. I’m hoping he can turn this into a hunting opportunity for the both of us..
Spoke with him last PM to discuss transporting the last of the old barn lumber out to the Mede hall. The last thing he said was “call me in the AM”..So I did..At precisely 0630 I started pinging his phone…
I think he was happy to hear from me.
@ 0645 I pulled into his driveway. I beeped the horn a 1/2 dozen or so times just to let him know I was there. I’m confident my promptness made a good impression on his Neihbor’s.
Locked N loaded and maneuvering through OH by 0715. We did confirm that some of this lumber is pre-blight chestnut. That puts the age of this lumber @ circa 1904 or earlier. There’s a few pieces of oak, chestnut and poplar that are ever so gently planed IOT keep a slightly weathered/aged look. Pic shows approx 1/3 of the load.
This lumber is earmarked for the bathroom. Probably going to be an ad hoc mixture of T/G pine and the remains of a WV barn.
CB is in the process of building a very large sliding barn door for a client near Vincent OH. I’m hoping he can turn this into a hunting opportunity for the both of us..
Spoke with him last PM to discuss transporting the last of the old barn lumber out to the Mede hall. The last thing he said was “call me in the AM”..So I did..At precisely 0630 I started pinging his phone…
I think he was happy to hear from me.
@ 0645 I pulled into his driveway. I beeped the horn a 1/2 dozen or so times just to let him know I was there. I’m confident my promptness made a good impression on his Neihbor’s.
Locked N loaded and maneuvering through OH by 0715. We did confirm that some of this lumber is pre-blight chestnut. That puts the age of this lumber @ circa 1904 or earlier. There’s a few pieces of oak, chestnut and poplar that are ever so gently planed IOT keep a slightly weathered/aged look. Pic shows approx 1/3 of the load.
This lumber is earmarked for the bathroom. Probably going to be an ad hoc mixture of T/G pine and the remains of a WV barn.
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The sum of all choices..
I’ve spent considerable time in the past year going over different ideas for the faux fireplace. Tile, natural stone, man made stone, flat, round, ledger stone, panels, home grown rock etc etc etc
After deciding to meander down the no rules - no restriction path, I kept moving toward slate and stone. Or, something that paid homage to slate and stone.
Yesterday’s foray to the big ticket store solidified the “Or” choice. It’s a 12” x 24” ceramic tile that pulls off a pretty good wink toward a natural slate/stone. All the right colors.
The small stone, is a small 12” x 12” flat river rock that will contrast nicely with the ceramic tile. Pairing the choices with a molasses colored grout.
I’ve spent considerable time in the past year going over different ideas for the faux fireplace. Tile, natural stone, man made stone, flat, round, ledger stone, panels, home grown rock etc etc etc
After deciding to meander down the no rules - no restriction path, I kept moving toward slate and stone. Or, something that paid homage to slate and stone.
Yesterday’s foray to the big ticket store solidified the “Or” choice. It’s a 12” x 24” ceramic tile that pulls off a pretty good wink toward a natural slate/stone. All the right colors.
The small stone, is a small 12” x 12” flat river rock that will contrast nicely with the ceramic tile. Pairing the choices with a molasses colored grout.
If one or more of the faux stones fractures just like a real one when you try to cut it, it will be EXTRA realistic!
I used something similar when I built my outdoor shower.
The wall grout is the same color as The Mule 2.0
I used something similar when I built my outdoor shower.
The wall grout is the same color as The Mule 2.0
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You shared a picture of your shower with me earlier..in keeping with the finest traditions of the MUD forum, I’m practicing OPI (other people’s Ideas). I lifted your stone idea (fair and square) and I’m now calling it my own. 
I’m getting around your copyright by flipping the application for a slightly different visual.. 
I’m getting around your copyright by flipping the application for a slightly different visual.. If one or more of the faux stones fractures just like a real one when you try to cut it, it will be EXTRA realistic!
I used something similar when I built my outdoor shower.
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The wall grout is the same color as The Mule 2.0