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Very interested in growing this species in the future. Afraid it wouldn’t be excited about my hard packed clay. Gonna start working to fix that next season.
Let me start with, I have NOT tried this however it makes sense. Try digging around the suckers this autumn, but don't dig them up. You are only wanting to be sure the lateral root has been severed, but other roots remain. Let them repair all winter and try digging them up next spring. No guarantees, but what in life comes with them.
If you need both a male and a female seaberry plant to get fruit, do both sexes need to be of the same cultivar, or can they be different? Thx
I agree, spring moves are best for sea buckthorn. Spring rains and cool weather make them happy. I moved 5 suckers last spring and had 100% success, as well as 2 from the year before (also in the spring). The 3 I did this summer don’t look very healthy (even with the occasional watering + wood chip mulch), NGMI? I think both males and female plants sucker, but it’s cultivar dependent. It’s the same ones that sucker every year.
In another area, one of the mother SBT under a buartnut tree isn’t happy, so I’m not sure if it’s getting toxins from the butternut/heart nut tree (related to Juglans)? It may just be light starved. I also have some grapes growing over it (living wall deer deterrent idea of yours I’m trying out). I’ve been growing willows, hardy kiwi, SBT, blackberry, red and black raspberry, and grapes along the northern side of my land parallel to the deer trail on my side of a chain link fence (only 5 feet which deer just laugh at). So far this summer they haven’t jumped along there because of the solid wall of growth along there. This winter will tell if it works when they’re hungry.
It reminds me of transplanting Paw Paw suckers. Early spring for those is a sound idea. You'll have more active, early primary roots. With Paw Paw, however tall the sucker was, I needed to match the cutting in mother root, the ones that did the best were the ones I harvested when they were just waking up for spring.
It reminds me of harvesting Paw Paw suckers. I think your idea is sound. They're different plants, but they propagate similarly. With Paw Paws, I found I needed to cut off enough mother root to match the height of the sucker. And, the ones that did the best were the early spring ones, just waking up. They had more primary roots. I needed much less mother root too.
I've never had the pleasure of growing Sea Berry, either in the Blue Ridge or the Piedmont. Idid see and grow some of the craziest varieties of legumes in Arizona. Most of the trees are leguminous there. That one's got berries though. I'm getting beachy vibes from this plant. Is it mildly xeric?
I'm hoping to grow them in the future, once I stop killing the fruit trees and bushes I have now. Organic growing is not easy once every pest known invades. Then there's the varying soil needs. I am feeling a bit defeated. I'll be researching all the insects and fungal diseases to see if i can save my trees and bushes. *Apple 2 varieties, Peach 2 varieties, blackberry, grapes 2 varieties, blueberries 2 varieties and a plum tree. The mulberry trees were untouched.
I just bought a few seaberry from Buzz at Perfect Circle. I'm planning to propagate the various cultivars extensively. Thanks for your video – some good thoughts about how to do it!
Can confirm transplants don't do well in fall.. Wish this video came out a few days ago 😀
What type of soil do you have there? Mine are not doing well, they are just not growing. pH level is relatively high here..
Very timely… I planted two males and 6 females after watching a harvest video a couple years ago. One poor male is only 4ft tall, one female is 7ft the others average 6'. This year I noticed a large amount of suckers on the short male and the largest female. I did get a few berries on the large female but not an abundance. I will attempt to move rather than mow the ones that have grown outside the area I planned for them and want to create another stand in the back of the house. Cheers
Dug out about 20 suckers this spring (mid april) and found new homes for them on the property. Seems they all thrive on neglect and do fine. When dug up in fall my seaberry suckers have a tendency to just sit there and sulk for a season or two before putting on growth.
I understand, from previous videos, that you have a neighbouring farmer who uses pesticides. How do you effectively keep them off your land and what about the spraying, does it affect the air on your property? Thank you.
Good info, thank you. I will have to move some 2 yr Seaberry plants from their current location this fall/winter as I no longer will have access to the land. They have started to sucker some, and I’ve been stool layering them, which from preliminary digging around seems to be working. I was planning to fall transplant and/or heel in suckers/plants and spring plant somewhere else. Our climate is more mild than yours there, so it will be interesting to see how the plants do with being lifted in the fall. Thinking cutting the top growth back aggressively when transplanting suckers might help with survival.
Hmmm. I just ordered a couple seaberry varieties from Perfect Circle, but now I'm a little nervous as to whether they will thrive as a fall planting in my zone 5b (NH). I will certainly mulch them, but would I be better off potting them up and keeping them in the unheated garage for the winter? Decisions, decisions…
You recommend same thing with paw paw suckered shawn? Wait till spring
Does some of you observe the same thing for cherry (romeo or juliette)? It seed sucker this year and I plan to dig them up.
I’m in zone 4 central Alberta and have transplanted suckers off of my 3 year old Orange Energy,Altaskaya, and Chuyaskya varieties (all female) all summer and have planted them out in my property as well as to pots. All but one survived and put on new growth out of around … 25 maybe? I just assumed they were bulletproof but maybe I just fluked out. We will see if any survive winter I guess.
I live east of Toronto in Ontario and I have dug up and moved suckers of Orange Energy, Star of Altai and Sunny along with the male variety Lord in the month of September the past couple of years with great success by moving them a day or two before rain is forecasted. I make sure to water them right after moving them and then water them once more if the forecasted rain doesn't occur within a few days. I've done this multiple times with each variety and especially the Star of Altai which I now have growing in 5 different locations around my property.