Mount Zion 2017

[MountZionCollec]

I am in the process of developing a plant nursury over a long period of time for late blooming cold hardy food producing plant varieties. As the climate changes and the oceans rise, if they do, then agriculture will need to move up into altitudes to avoid the flooding and drought of the valleys that have fed us for hundreds and thousands of years. I am looking for those varieties that could be used for small scale to large scale commercial production in the Sierra Nevada mountains between the Altitudes of 2000-5000 feet.

Types of plants I am currently most interested in: Figs, mullberrys, European prune plums, Nectarines, Pears, blackberries, rasberries, grapes, anything cold hardy unique to its variety for example looking to try a few types of cold hardy Avocados.. also livestock food (acorns for Pigs).



Current fig tree list I am testing. I want to get to 100 eventually!



Chicago Hardy (Mongibello) 24-2
Excel 24-1
Nordland 12-3
Olympia Fig 21-2
English Brown Turkey 23-3
Deanna 20-1
Tena 21-1
Celeste 23-2
LSU Purple 20-4
Sunfire
Handy
LSU Gold
LSU O'Rourke
LSU Tiger
Abou George
LSU Champagne
Macool
Makedonia dark
Dark Portugeuse
Conadria
Marseilles vs black
Beers Black
Desert King
Black Mission
Ischia (white-green-black??)
Magnolia
Kadota
Violette De Bordeaux

 

[plantingplants]

Damn you sound like you got your hands full. So you sound like a sane 'prepper' doing things rationally lol

Check out the slownickel lounge in the Advanced subforum. You might find some info in there that might be useful. Though he doesn't take kindly to Astera lol

 

[Teh_Baker]

Mountzioncollec, as far as avocados go, see if you can find a variety called Susan. They are very cold hardy, and drought resistant. My inlaws grew some outside of Visalia in the orange belt and they did great. Should be able to handle the cold up by you no problem. They have a smooth green skin when ripe, and are water based instead of fat based like a Hass.

 

[Manivelle]

there's a lot of tree suitable for pollarding
these are the 3 i know to perform really well . and they have other use.
Ash (Fraxinus) good for leaves and youcan make tool hanle with the branches. very hard wood .
Common lime (Tilia × europaea) flowers for the bees and honey or tisane ,smell good in springtime and leaves can be eaten too. bark have some uses too . wood is good for sculture very light and dense .

London plane (Platanus*× hispanica) , platanus grow fast , trunk can be used as hard wood

but you may find some other that can be used .
hackberry for exemple . birds like to eat the berry . very very lot of leaves of good quality but grow slowly . wood is good to make wooden fork etc...
white willow : used for besket making.
you can provid some material to the craftsmen.
fruit trees are good too :almonds olives

barely anything that grow fast is good.

 

[Limeygreen]

A tree for great honey is also black locust, needs no fertilizer ever just water to establish it and it will grow fast, tall and wide beautiful flowers in the spring that bees love, lots of thorns that can be nasty but if you pull branches down horizontally and plant them at a higher density you can make livestock fences with it same as osage orange those things are weedy, if you get a female tree you can sell the seed pods as decorations and yuppies pay for them.

 

[MountZionCollec]

Damn you sound like you got your hands full. So you sound like a sane 'prepper' doing things rationally lol

Check out the slownickel lounge in the Advanced subforum. You might find some info in there that might be useful. Though he doesn't take kindly to Astera lol

Yes my hands are full and im loving it...At this point in the season I wont be leaving the farm Until Christmas im fully concentrated!

I will check out his thread thanks for the recommendation, I feel like I remember them getting into a debate in Asteras thread sometime back . Astera has been amazing for me and I really enjoy his book.

 

[MountZionCollec]

This is my cutting room and my motherplant greenhouse.

Currently plants saved are:

Schnazzleberry #4: 3 males, 5 females.

Sleestack*Skunk #1: 5 males, 16 females

(Mexican*haze)*(Ohaze*skunk #1)=1 male.



Here is the 1000 square foot veggie garden, and the location where we are expanding our solar setup. We have 2 6 foot holes dug under the plywood.

 

[MountZionCollec]

This is the Flat Garden.

 

[MountZionCollec]

Hillside garden.

 

[MountZionCollec]

Hillside.

 

[MountZionCollec]

Finally, the old Hoophouse.

 

[Manivelle]

i hope you'll never stop selection .

 

[gorilla ganja]

The farm is looking fantastic. Really coming together.
Hard work is showing though in nice healthy plants.
I would get a few more CFL's in that cloning room.

I like the high altitude breeding program. Looking forward to results this fall.

Peace GG

 

[potty1]

Amazing thread.
Did the ancestral skunks come to anything interesting?

 

[MountZionCollec]

i hope you'll never stop selection .

The selection will never stop!

 

[MountZionCollec]

The farm is looking fantastic. Really coming together.
Hard work is showing though in nice healthy plants.
I would get a few more CFL's in that cloning room.

I like the high altitude breeding program. Looking forward to results this fall.

Peace GG

Thank you, while there is much room for improvement for next year I am very happy with the results of this year so far!

Yes I do agree the clone room could use more CFLS, will be happening sometime soon.

 

[MountZionCollec]

Amazing thread.
Did the ancestral skunks come to anything interesting?

Nothing crazy interesting just yet. I have 2 very healthy nice mothers that so far are good in every category....there just really getting going on bud/resin production so should know soon if there something special.

 

[MountZionCollec]

This picture was taken a few days ago on my 4 ancestral skunk females.

 

[MountZionCollec]

This is my mother/father greenhouse.



The above 4 pictures of some of the Schnazzleberry 4 females I have selected. Early flowering, vigorous until late July, very high yielding, very stinky, strong healthy stems and generally healthy plants with little nutrient issues.

 

[MountZionCollec]

Sleestack*Skunk #1 mothers I have selected. Right now I have about 17 saved.