I found a fellow named Fidel in a local town who has been experimenting with trees for over 20 years and purchased some from him. We chatted for a while about many of the tests he has done with apples, plums, and peaches he bought in from Holland, Canada and other places. He has has a few successes and many failures as is to be expected.
Unfortunately he didn’t know the scientific names of the plants I bought from him.
Planting trees today.
I put in a “Chinese Cherry”…. no idea what it really is, but I would very much like to graft any cherries onto the native capuline. Prunus salicifolia. Because they are completely rare trees here I paid $300 pesos for it. All the others were cheap.
Planted three more guayaba trees, 10 grafted apples of a variety of types, two plums of unknown species, one fig which apprarently isn’t the usual kind, one peach supposedly of a non-usual variety and… a wonderful thing…
He had two lemon trees I bought! Here yellow lemons are hard to find, though limes are common. He called them Italian Lemons. We are trying to reproduce such lemons from seed as well.
We are going to baby the cherry and the lemons and track their progress. Normally we don’t water plants here in the dry season, but those we will try to keep alive so we can reproduce them.
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