Other fruit p orn

[Mahindra3016]

Figured we need a thread for other fruits besides apples.

Group of 4 are hale haven peaches, big group are redhaven, no spray! Not perfect but taste great.

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[Native Hunter]

Normally I could cover you up with pear pictures, but for the first time ever they got froze out this year. Here are some others for you.

 

[H20fwler]

 

[Bowsnbucks]

C'mon fellas - We preach diversity here …...….........and you guys need to get up to speed. ………………...

Nice assortment of groceries, gents !!

 

[OhioJeremy]

Well done! Bartlett and Kieffer's?

 

[Jhoss]

Raspberry wine = porn, right?

 

[sandbur]

Farmstead plum that resembles a wild plum.

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[H20fwler]

Well done! Bartlett and Kieffer's?

And Moonglow

 

[Bowsnbucks]

Jhoss, post #6 - Raspberry wine = porn ?? OOOOOOHHHHH YYYYYEEEEEAAAAAHHHHH. Send jug for professional taste-testing to P.O.Box #1, My Place. This is a "free" service !!

 

[SmallChunk]

I don't even know what some of that fruit is, native!

 

[Native Hunter]

I don't even know what some of that fruit is, native!

You just had a fruit encounter of the third kind...

#1 - Illinois Everbearing Mulberry - An elderberry that keeps making fruit at least a month after most other are done. Taste is great too.

#2 - Wild Blueberries

#3 - Wild Blackberries

#4 & #12 - Seedling Persimmon that appears to be a cross between an American and Japanese. They have turned yellow in the last few days and are falling off the tree. I ate one today and it was very sweet.

#5 - Paw Paws

#6 - Chinese Chestnuts

#7 - A little green man gave me these....LOL. No, these are fruits of Japanese Dogwood. Very tasty inside. Cut them in half and eat the inside.

#8 - Elderberry

#9 - Native Hazelnuts

#10 - Witch Hazel Nuts - These are very small but edible and tasty. When I first started getting these I didn't realize that when ripe the nuts shoot out of the husks and can travel up to 30 feet. I put some on a table in my basement and came back in a few days. Nuts were everywhere. I thought I had a rat in the basement.

#11 - Some of my seedling female persimmons - These are loaded this year. They should ripen and start falling about prime hunting time.

 

[Bowsnbucks]

Native - Illinois Everbearing ………….. Do the birds get most of the berries or do you net the tree ?? Also - Have you had more mulberries sprouting from birds spreading the seeds ??

 

[Native Hunter]

Native - Illinois Everbearing ………….. Do the birds get most of the berries or do you net the tree ?? Also - Have you had more mulberries sprouting from birds spreading the seeds ??

The tree is WAY TO BIG to net. They make a massive tree. I would say that tree is 30 feet tall and 30+ feet wide.

It's a constant flurry of birds, but we always seem to get all we want. My MIL even makes cobbler with them. It is awesome. The birds seem to stay more toward the top of the tree and we get the ones near the ground.

I have always had mulberry to sprout around here, but haven't noticed any that I can directly attribute to the IEM. I have wondered about that myself, but just haven't noticed an increase in sprouts.

 

[Native Hunter]

I forgot to post my sawtooth acorns. I didn't really intend to plant sawtooths. However, I bought some chestnuts once and the nursery sent sawtooths. I recognized it as soon as I saw them, but it wasn't many, so I just went ahead and put them in the ground. They have been slow doing anything but most are making acorns this year.

 

[Mahindra3016]

Two different wild pear trees.

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[bigbendmarine]

I forgot to post my sawtooth acorns. I didn't really intend to plant sawtooths. However, I bought some chestnuts once and the nursery sent sawtooths. I recognized it as soon as I saw them, but it wasn't many, so I just went ahead and put them in the ground. They have been slow doing anything but most are making acorns this year.

Don't mind me asking, Native, how old are the sawtooths? Planted 50 or so across my place the past few years and am honestly just relieved to finally have them strong / thick enough to stand on their own -- still have mine tubed, but most no longer need PVC poles to hold them up. Always just curious to hear how long it takes different folks to see them actually begin to bear acorns.

 

[bigbendmarine]

Few firsts this year.

First kieffer pears from one of 8 trees I planted a couple of years ago (shared recently in my land tour thread but seems fitting here too).



First peach from one of two trees I planted earlier this very spring! Pulled all but the single peach off soon as I saw them developing. Crazy impressed with how well the trees (Florida Crest peach trees with really low chill hour requirements) have done. These trees serve as accent trees literally just a few feet in front of both sides of my front door. There were two ornamental cherry trees planted in the spots when we moved in but the trees were almost at death's door with age / fungus / trunk rot issues. I fought to keep them alive for 4 years dreading having to wait years for sapling plantings to grow appealing from a proportion standpoint, when in truth the peaches took off so fast they've grown to nearly the same height in a single season. Gone from about 3' high to 7' or so already. In hindsight, wish I'd planted them back in 2014 when we moved in.



Muscadines actually ripe this very moment. Picture is of "Southern Home" variety. I've got 6 different variities planted in all - 3 black and 3 bronze (we call bronze scuppernongs).



Buckets full of muscadines



Think I may have shared this last year in another thread, but pic of my DIY grape pressing system. Put grapes in fine mesh bag, place in "strainer" bucket with drilled holes and put strainer bucket inside tap bucket... mash grapes in mesh bag by hand best you can first, then follow up by using bucket on far right as a press inside the strainer bucket.



End result, fresh muscadine juice so good we didn't have the patience to try any wine making.

 

[Native Hunter]

Don't mind me asking, Native, how old are the sawtooths? Planted 50 or so across my place the past few years and am honestly just relieved to finally have them strong / thick enough to stand on their own -- still have mine tubed, but most no longer need PVC poles to hold them up. Always just curious to hear how long it takes different folks to see them actually begin to bear acorns.

I would say 9 years. Some of them are over 20 feet tall.

 

[Bowsnbucks]

Bigbendmarine - I never had a muscadine. What are they like ?? Juice looks great !! How's it taste ??

 

[bigbendmarine]

Bigbendmarine - I never had a muscadine. What are they like ?? Juice looks great !! How's it taste ??

Bowsnbucks, that's a bit tough to answer because so many cultivars have been developed but I'lll give it a try...

The parent muscadine grape is actually native to the southeast United States and has been extensively cultivated since the 16th century, ultimately leading up to over 150 named cultivars -- with cultivars split between those developed for eating versus juice production. Picking cultivars tend to be really large (1 1/4" to 1 1/2" diameter not unusual), INTENSELY sweet, and HEAVILY flavored (MUCH stronger grape taste than eurpoean grapes) whereas the juice cultivars tend to be a tad bit less sweet, smaller, and often with a bit more of a bunching growth habit.

Generally (but in varying degrees by cultivar) they are much thicker skinned than european grapes and have numerous grape seeds. Some studies have pointed to them as being extremely high in healthy antioxidants. I personally chew and eat the skins but the pulp is sweeter and as this video shows even among southerners how one eats them varies.

European bunch grapes do NOT do well in the humid south due to a bacteria that thrives in the hot, humid south that causes what is labeled as Pierce's disease -- fatal to almost all grape species outside of the native muscadine cultivars. On the other hand, many cultivars of muscadines are extremely vigorous having to be pruned several times in a season to keep growth in control.

While I LOVE eating muscadines due to their intense flavor, I've found many of the wines to be sickeningly sweet for my taste and I actually prefer slightly sweet wines to dry ones... but many of the muscadine wines just take sweetness to another level.

The ONE winery that really seems to have gotten it right is Duplin Winery out of N.C. For anyone tempted to sample them, I'd recommend their Hatteras Red, Midnight Magnolia, and Scuppernong wines. Their winery in Rose Hill, NC is a fun place to visit and looks like they have a retail location in North Myrtle Beach now as well for anyone who visits the area. Their wines are pretty easy to find in my neck of the woods (Florida) as their wines are sold at Publix. Outside the southeast looks like it might be fairly easy to find in parts of OH and PA as well.

https://www.duplinwinery.com/duplin-wine-finder/