I'm having a devil of a time with my orchard trees. Some sort of fungus that causes the tree to develop open sores that ooze sap, and eventually weakens them to the point that the trunk will break.
It's happened to every single drupe that I bought at Lowe's. I pulled a nectarine, two peach, and two plum trees out of the ground a couple months ago, and I've got two more peach that are sick.
Those trees all came to Lowe's from a nursery in Oklahoma, the name of which is evading me at the moment. I should have known better than to buy orchard trees from a box store. It's a mistake I won't make again.
The worst part of it is that the trees don't show any symptoms until they've been in the ground for six or seven years, so I've lost a lot of time due to buying sick trees.
Frustrating, isn’t it? I have a peach and a cherry to replace, but Jung’s is sold out already of what I want. Hoping I can snag SOMETHING in their Bare Root sales.
If I can’t get cherry or peach, the two remaining ones won’t get pollinated. I may end up going with whatever fruit trees I can find that self-pollinate, or will accept something from the ‘wild’ as we have old apple trees and wild plums and a few other things growing around here, too.