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[mIEKAL aND <qazingulaza@gmail.com>]

This is a thread that I have a lot of interest in.  Hopefuly others will
post.

My mini pawpaw grove has the oldest tree in flower & looking totally free of
any damage.  The one other tree that I have that flowers has a lot of tip
damage & did not push any flowers like it did last year.  Luckily I have
grandma pawpaw in a 5 gallon pot in full flower that hopefully will do the
trick.

I have a small clump of Phyllostachys aureosulcata which started to take off
& spread about 10 years ago, then a -30F winter made it disappear for about
5 years, & then last year it reappeared & pushed my first useable canes
(which I used for treetube stakes). It's now pushing a lot of very nice new
canes.  Other folks are saying they need to grow for 5 years before they are
harvested, these cane have died back to the about an inch above the ground.
 We'll see how sturdy they are.

As I posted previously, 3 of the arguta males that I have in the ground are
toast. I really don't think its a hardiness issue tho who knows.   From now
on I'm growing them in a pot for a couple years before they are put in the
ground. 'Meader' male arguta is the only one I have that has taken.

Not a pushing the zone observation, but a Mazzard cherry rootstock which top
killed years ago & I never got it grafted has turned into a full sized
cherry tree & flowered this year.  Are the cherries edible?

Another very interesting dieback was about 10 seedling Iowa Indian white
peaches & selected Siberian C peaches had all their primary buds & flower
buds zapped.  The trees are just now pushing out secondary leaves.  Other
plantings had no damage, I hope I didn't put these in a bad location.

~mIEKAL


z4b SW Wisconsin




On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 7:59 PM, Sherlock Terry 
<sherlocksmith@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> It would be great to hear some stories of how plants are doing outside of
> their traditional zones (N or S). I will share my limited experience below.
>
> PF 24C peach-planted spr 2010-all branches winterkilled, new leaves from
> trunk.
>
> Hosui asian pear-planted spr 2010-minor winterkill in branch tips, no
> flowers yet.
>
> Black Gold sweet cherry-planted spr 2010-no winterkill, no flowers yet.
>
> Oikos medlar-planted spr 2010-no winterkill, no flowers yet.
>
> Maypop-started from seed 2010-mulched over winter, so sign of life yet.
>
> Vegetables:
> Occasionally artichokes and cardoons overwinter for me with no protection
> other than snow cover. This year one cardoon overwintered out of 2 cardoons
> and 8 Imperial Star artichokes.
>
> -Sherlock
> Z4 VT