Picked up trees from AZRFG tree order (Doug Jones' house) today:

• Bella Gold Peacotum
• Black Satin Blackberry
• 2in1 Delight/Sprite Cherry-Plum
• Lattarula Fig
• Burgundy Japanese Plum
• Flordaprince Peach
• Candy Heart Pluerry

All 7 trees planted and irrigation run around them

Size

Metrics:

• Height (inches only): 4'10"
• Girth (inches only): 1.9"

Peacotum buds

Jobe's All purpose fertilizer around all trees in NW orchard + water

• The height has changed by 1' over the last 46 days.

Metrics:

• Height (inches only): 5'10"

• The girth has changed by 0" over the last 98 days.

Metrics:

• Girth (inches only): 1.9"

• The girth has changed by 1.1" over the last 144 days.

Girth measurement

Metrics:

• Girth (inches only): 3"

• The height has changed by 1'2" over the last 248 days.
• The girth has changed by 0.1" over the last 52 days.

Metrics:

• Height (inches only): 7'
• Girth (inches only): 3.1"

Metrics:

• Leaf Shed End: ✔

Added irrigation ring with 8 emitters of 0.5 GPH each for a total of 4 GPH.

Sprayed a bunch of trees with Copper Fungicide. Mixed 2.0 fluid ounces per gallon of water.

Trimmed off some lateral branches and cut tips of the topmost branches.

Added a Beauty Plum graft onto one of the root stock suckers.

Did a second graft today. Another Beauty Plum. The host branch was too thick (0.54 inch diameter) to use the grafting tool so I did a classic cleft graft. The scion had a 0.3 inch diameter. Used the Victorinox Swiss Army Grafter Garden Tool instead of the grafting tool that cuts the neat U.

Sprayed with Neem Oil. 2 Fl Oz per gallon. Made a total of 4 gallons for the trees listed on this note.

• The height has changed by 2" over the last 85 days.
• The girth has changed by 0" over the last 85 days.

Metrics:

• Height (inches only): 7'2"
• Girth (inches only): 3.1"

Metrics:

• First Bud: ✔

Sprayed a bunch of trees with a 2 fluid ounce per gallon of water Bonide Copper Fungicide.

Sprayed with copper fungicide and all seasons horticultural oil. In total I made 8 gallons of the mixture using two different copper products:

Batch #1: Bonide Copper Fungicide - 2 fluid ounces per gallon of water + Bonide Horticultural Oil - 3.75 fluid ounces per gallon of water.

Batch #2: Liqui-Cop Copper Fungicide - 1 fluid ounce per gallon of water + Bonide Horticultural Oil - 3.75 fluid ounces per gallon of water.

Sprayed with 3 Fluid Ounces per gallon of Pyrethrin mixed with 1 Fluid Ounce per gallon of Neem Oil. Purpose of this is to combat the influx of Glassy Winged Sharpshooters that have suddenly been observed and also to hopefully suppress Peach Borers.

• The height has changed by 0" over the last 368 days.
• The girth has changed by 0.9" over the last 368 days.

Metrics:

• Height (inches only): 7'2"
• Girth (inches only): 4"

Either it's starting to sap or there's a borer or some other insect in there. No sign of buds or flowers yet.

This tree took a long time to blossom.

Metrics:

• First Blossom: ✔

First bud.

Metrics:

• First Bud: ✔

Added used coffee grounds at the base of a number of trees and watered it in.

Despite all those flowers I can't find any fruit on this tree.

Metrics:

• First Blossom: ✔

First bud.

Metrics:

• First Bud: ✔

Spread around 19 pounds of Arizona's Best Soil Sulphur at the base of these trees today.

Flowers are finished but can't find any fruit on the tree yet...

Metrics:

• Last Blossom: ✔

• All trees in the Northwest orchard.
• Distributed 50 lbs of Tiger 90CR Sulfur pellets.
• Mixed in 1 pints of Link P31 (8-31-5) Nitrogen/Phosphates and two-fifths of a tablespoon of Borax powder to add Boron in around 40 to 50 gallons of water in the gorilla card. There was only 1 pint of Link P31 solution left in the container but the bottom of the container had a bunch of stuff stuck to the bottom that I rinsed out and added so it was probably more like 2 pints.
• Used the shower nozzle on the hose and watered the sulfur and Link P31 through the mulch.

This provides this part of the orchard (Northwest) which is 1,000 square feed with the following:

• 0.5 pounds of Nitrogen
• 2 pounds of Phosphate
• 0.02 pounds of Boron

• The height has changed by -1" over the last 404 days.
• The girth has changed by 1.5" over the last 404 days.

Metrics:

• Height (inches only): 7'1"
• Girth (inches only): 5.5"
• Leaf Shed Start: ✔

Metrics:

• Leaf Shed End: ✔

Monterey Liqui-Cop Copper Fungicide - 1 fluid ounce per gallon of water. Made a total of 4 gallons for these trees.

Sprayed with Plantonix Neem Oil. Mixed 1 fl oz per gallon. Also added one-third fl oz of mild dish soap liquid per gallon. Made a total of 8 gallons for these trees.

Spray ran out on the espalier apple so only did around half of that tree.

Metrics:

• First Blossom: ✔

Metrics:

• First Bud: ✔

Spread 320 pounds of Arizona's Best Ammonium Sulfate around yard. Includes all trees tagged on this note which is about 95% of the trees in the orchard.

Tracking the blossoms on the tree that's never produced fruit.

Metrics:

• Last Blossom: ✔

Metrics:

• Last Blossom: ✔

Sprayed with Southern Ag Chelated Liquid Iron diluted at the recommended rate of 1 tablespoon with 1 gallon of water.

• The height has changed by 1'11" over the last 414 days.
• The girth has changed by 2.1" over the last 414 days.

Took some girth measurements today to compare root stock, graft union and graft girths on this tree. Measurements are listed from top down - as you would view them on the tree. This tree is unusual as it's the only one (I think) in my yard where the root stock has a smaller girth than the scion grafted onto it.

• 7.625" - the girth of the scion
• 10.25" - the girth of the graft union
• 6.625" - the girth of the root stock

Conversation about this in Fruit Trees Anonymous.

Metrics:

• Height (inches only): 9'
• Girth (inches only): 7.6"

Leaf shed start.

Metrics:

• Leaf Shed Start: ✔

Metrics:

• Leaf Shed End: ✔

• The height has changed by 9" over the last 227 days.
• The girth has changed by 0.5" over the last 227 days.

Metrics:

• Height (inches only): 9'9"
• Girth (inches only): 8.1"

Metrics:

• First Bud: ✔

Metrics:

• First Blossom: ✔

Put 0.5 fluid ounces of Southern Ag Chelated Liquid Iron in a gallon of water and poured at base.

Put 0.5 fluid ounces of Southern Ag Chelated Liquid Iron in a gallon of water and poured at base.

Metrics:

• Last Blossom: ✔

Sprayed with a mix of Plantonix Neem Oil and Bonide Horticultural and Dormant Spray Oil. Mixed 1 fl oz per gallon of Neem and about 3.5 fl oz for the Bonide. Did half the quantity of each oil to make 4 gallons in total. Also added one-third fl oz of mild dish soap liquid per gallon.

Metrics:

• First Blossom: ✔

Put 0.5 fluid ounces of Southern Ag Chelated Liquid Iron in a gallon of water and poured at base.

Spread 42 lbs of Monterey's Dr Iron product around the yard under every tree. Product is 55% sulfur and 22% iron.

Southern Ag Chelated Liquid Iron spray on leaves.

At 8 AM the day after (about 14 hours) spraying with chelated iron so that we have a before picture and I will try and do the same a week later.

Image captured at 8 AM today. This is 1 week after the chelated iron spray.

Image captured at 8 AM today. This is 2 weeks after the chelated iron spray.

Image captured at 8 AM today. This is 3 weeks after the chelated iron spray.

Placed white pot at base of tree today. Bottom is 10" wide and top opening is 5".

• The height has changed by -5" over the last 742 days.
• The girth has changed by 2.4" over the last 742 days.

A strange tree. Lots of gummosis at the base but the tree still seems to be generally healthy. (And completely fruit free.)

Metrics:

• Height (inches only): 9'4"
• Girth (inches only): 10.5"

Spread Fertizona Furst Class 15-15-15 around the trees today. Used a handful for small trees and up to six handfuls for the larger trees. In total used 100 lbs.

A splash (about 0.5 fluid ounces) of Southern Ag Chelated Liquid Iron in 5 gallons of water and poured at base.

Spread Fertizona Furst Class 15-15-15 around all the trees today. Used a total used 200 lbs of which about 25 lbs went on the grass.

Used the Chapin 20 gallon lawn sprayer to spray Southern Ag Chelated Iron at the base of these trees today. Diluted mixture 50/50 with water.

Sprayed with Polymer AG Anti-Stress 550. Made 4 gallons at a 2.5% dilution ratio and used the backpack sprayer. That amount perfectly covered the trees listed in this note. I was using a fairly course spray and I'm wondering if this product would perform better with a fine spray setting.

Finally marking this tree as dead today. This extreme heat was too much for this tree this year after killing most of it last year.