I can’t wait to hear how the fruit tree sale went. Because my primary focus is native flora, I have 250 native tree seedlings (1-2 year, eight different varieties) due to arrive very soon, hopefully this coming week. My plan is to pot them up in trade gallons and put them in the greenhouse until May 4, my opening day plant sale. (Our last frost date is May 15!) A couple months being cozy in the greenhouse will help them grow nicely, I think. I’m just about ready to start potting the 30-day stratification native wildflowers. (I have close to 100,000 seeds stratifying! 😱) Although I have lots of veggie and annual seeds, I think I will order plugs instead because I just don’t have the time or space to start all those seeds yet. I’m praying like crazy for great germination and growth rates. I feel like I have no idea what I’m doing! 😱🤷‍♀️😱🤷‍♀️ I hope to have all of these listed on my website for pre-orders by March 1st. I’m terrified but trusting God for the increase! I can do everything right, but only He can make a seed grow.

Good Luck selling out 😀! fruit trees are always in demand. Best wishes

Love that you have blueberries!! Good luck on your sale!!

You're right, you can't do all your own starting and propagating unless you have a large staff and acres and acres. I've seen nurseries out here in CA that are over 100 acres. I sure hope Savvy Daughter keeps the business going down the road, nothing builds generational wealth and strength better than a family business.

Great to see you expanding into new ventures to bring the nursery to life so early!

@savvydirtfarmer

4 ай бұрын

That's the plan!

I hope that you had a great sale…. I didn’t get to come to Florence today due to making up work from the snow storm. I pray that you do twice the business this year. It sounds like you are well on your way. Thanks for sharing and God bless!

@savvydirtfarmer

4 ай бұрын

Very much appreciated

Hope today went well! Looking forward to hearing how it went.

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Wish I had an orchard

Good luck on the fruit trees. Can’t wait to see how you do.

I just bought 5 Dwarf Everbearing Mulberry and 4 Celeste fig trees online, plus 2 Pineapple Guava. Never tried that. Not sure it will grow in Louisiana. I wish I had a pear tree but I`m avoiding trees that I have to wait years to get a harvest. I also already have an almost one year old Brown Turkey fig tree growing and four cuttings from it rooting. My soil was destroyed by the previous people who lived here so it`s gonna be a LOT of work bringing in soil to get these trees established and rooted in the red dirt that`s as hard as concrete. I got a pick axe to try to at least chop holes in it some.

I've bought several crab apple trees, bare root (from local county co-op yearly tree sale), and they are in garbage bags (roots are bigger than what you have) but they have some sort of moisturizing goop on the roots. Lilacs too. And it lasts quite a while. at least a week. I think (if I remember) they had a vat of the goop, and dipped each root ball into that and then put in a garbage bag and tied it shut. Super fast and inexpensive.

I think you will do great with these! Brings in new customers who will return for other plants as well. Let us know how it goes. 👍👍👍

I live in central Florida 9a and already had a handful of blueberries very sweet quite surprisingly.

@savvydirtfarmer

4 ай бұрын

Very nice!

@AMPProf

4 ай бұрын

Btw Banana species, strawberries, peaches, mangos (not sure how long). Yep tge List for fl is Endless.. God speed dont faint

@AMPProf

4 ай бұрын

BUILD UP DRAIN SOUTH

@AMPProf

4 ай бұрын

Best product of Tampabay area blue berry wine

As usual great stuff, thanks for the helpful tips. Your videos inspire me to get out there and get to growing and selling.

@savvydirtfarmer

4 ай бұрын

Glad to help

That's SO smart. You're going to sell out quickly! Maybe make a list of varieties people ask for that you don't have... for next year? Those brightwells are SO good! They just didn't do well in my mid Missouri environment - too cold. I like how you're growing incrementally and exponentially.

@savvydirtfarmer

4 ай бұрын

Thanks - learning as we go, for sure.

Pro Tip: Blueberries often need a second plant to be properly pollinated, so be sure of any variety you get first. There are some types they are self-fertile, also. "Kaffir" Lime is pronounced more like "Caff-ir"(as in "Caffeine"). A "Kiefer"(key-fer) is German for "Pine tree", or even "jaw". Glad to see everything coming together for Spring!

@savvydirtfarmer

4 ай бұрын

Blueberries: I have 4 rabbiteye varieties, all known to be friendly toward one another. And, the Kieffer is a pear, not a lime, and, I'll butcher anything when I pronounce it. That's just how it is.

@KarlKarsnark

4 ай бұрын

@@savvydirtfarmer Awesome. I picked up some Rabbit Eye varieties a few weeks ago and put them in the ground here in N. FL. They're just starting to bud a little bit now that things are warming up down here. Cheers!

Hope you have great sales today's. Are you going to pot them after your sale? A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Great job and happy sales. Don't forget to reach out to landscapers and other bulk planter people another area of sales. Medicinal plants such as Elderberry and mullein and herbs

Southern people love fruit trees free food 😂

@AMPProf

4 ай бұрын

yall ever seen the apple tree photos of snowlands.. YEP BUT like peaches n stuffs (shizzzzz) NO Yall gotta pick umm

@teresaholland4790

4 ай бұрын

@@AMPProf that’s the part of gardening , but cooking your food tastes so much better 😊

@AMPProf

4 ай бұрын

@@teresaholland4790 like Pie PIE wait You got Pie lolz

I grow my own fruit trees but I wouldn't know how to scale to get trees that size for sale. You'd need machinery or LOTS of muscle to dig those up.

Ground still frozen in many states

I have a question. Not related to this video but when you put cuttings under a mist system how often do you mist them? Is it several times a day or just as the plants start to try out?

@savvydirtfarmer

4 ай бұрын

I do them under shade cloth, a few seconds every 15 minutes or so. It's going to vary by your setup, but that's a place to start.

Moving to the country gonna eat me a lot of peaches

@ticktock2383

4 ай бұрын

Peaches are the hardest fruits to grow. Check out info online

@AMPProf

4 ай бұрын

@@ticktock2383 now that depends I'm mean real food sure. But a grampa twig not so much

Where is a good place to sort these bare roots in bulk?

@savvydirtfarmer

3 ай бұрын

I bought them from a local wholesaler. For a variety of reasons, I don't share those sources here anymore. thanks!!

PIE trees

Do you have anymore pear trees

@savvydirtfarmer

4 ай бұрын

Pears all I have left. Bartlett and Kieffer. About 3 of each.

Bread and butter if my nursery shocked this is ur first bare root fruit sale

@savvydirtfarmer

4 ай бұрын

Well, it is the beginning of our 2nd year in business, so...

@John_GGG

4 ай бұрын

@@savvydirtfarmer You are killing it!

I hope your sales did fantastic. I have plants growing in the greenhouse on my porch the garage and one of my bedrooms I ran out of room I have not been able to find fruit or citrus trees at a reasonable wholesale price I called two places and one quoted $28.50 and the other $32.00 not much of a wholesale price It's not worth my time Best wishes

Why did you choose the varieties that you are selling? It seems like you picked the same varieties that all the chain store carry.

@tomh4591

4 ай бұрын

focusing on what's in demand i would assume. if the chain stores focus on them, it's because they're in demand and profitable. but I agree it would be smart to have what others do not...

@savvydirtfarmer

4 ай бұрын

Sometimes you have to take what is available. On a day when the weather could not have been much worse, I am extremely pleased with how well our trees have sold.

@Newtown-Orchard

4 ай бұрын

Good luck! I can't wait to hear the update. I came home from my recent trip to Alabama with 130 apple trees to sell!

just curious how far you have to travel to find a good wholesale source for your quick flips? It would seem not too awful far since you don't have trailer after trailer load, if it were too far i'm sure you would have to haul alot more per trip? That's the biggest issue I see in that business, if you're near a good wholesaler, you probably have a lot of competition. To be the only guy around for miles with the plants is a good thing, but then you're traveling an awful lot to get your stock. Wonder what that happy median is. I don't see this industry like other industries where "competition is a good thing" like car dealerships, this dealer doesn't have what you want but the guy across the street does so your customers bring in my customers sort of thing. Unless you have better presentation, are easier/nicer to deal with, have a different image/message...but i could be completely wrong on that assumption.

@savvydirtfarmer

4 ай бұрын

I don’t have a good wholesaler near me. Sometimes I have to drive almost 200 miles one way. But, I do not do that very often and that is why we try to grow most of our plants here in our own nursery. We grow probably 75% of the plants we sell, so hauling wholesale flips is not a huge part of what we do.