Hypatia Nachshon wrote:

First of the season showed up two weeks ago!




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Last June, I put in a whole bunch of plants, but got zip fruit, though that's supposed to be their season in this latitude (34 N.) Gritted my teeth,
took good care of them; hoped for next June.

if you planted them in June that is too late
for them to flower and put on fruit for the same
month, but i have had plants put on flowers and
fruit while still in the pots and even survive
the transplanting as long as the roots are not
too disturbed and the watering is kept up.
usually i remove all but one flower/fruit if
i'm transplanting and they do ok.


Whaddya know, mid-March, they're taking off!

i've had first flowers anywhere from March 11
to the end of June. are your plants flowering
now or showing signs of waking up from dormancy?

this year i've only checked the plants so far
and they are doing well because they had full snow
cover the whole season. nice and green. eventually
i will have to peel back the thin layer of pine
needles once the weather actually warms up to where
it isn't freezing overnight.


songbird