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Post by Sandbur on Aug 23, 2017 17:59:28 GMT -6
This is a Grandma tree. Started from seed by my wife's grandma.  Those water sprouts need to come off, but I couldn't reach them in late June. Fruit tree spikes and some pel lime make a big difference on these trees. |
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Post by Sandbur on Aug 23, 2017 18:05:06 GMT -6
This is a Grandma tree. Started from seed by my wife's grandma. I got my pictures mixed up. This is actually a seedling that I could not treach to thin apples two years ago. More bent over every other year as it bears. |
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Post by Sandbur on Aug 23, 2017 18:08:01 GMT -6
Here is grandma tree.  |
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Post by Sandbur on Aug 23, 2017 18:11:09 GMT -6
Top work of Colombia crab on a wild swamp crab from 2015. I thought I pulled all of the blossoms off this spring.  |
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Post by smsmith on Aug 24, 2017 15:56:18 GMT -6
Didn't take any pics because I had paint all over my hands...but my Whitney is dropping fruit and the critters are keeping them cleaned up. The tree wasn't loaded by any means, but it's good to know that the critters like 'em  |
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Post by Sandbur on Aug 25, 2017 6:27:57 GMT -6
Yesterday I visited the farm that has a whitney near their barn. The whitneys are past prime and getting mushy.
Whitney would be a good crab to get deer attracted to a location, then add a dolgo and a chestnut and maybe a kerr, and a colombia. Good from until mid or early August until Dec. 1 or later.
Norland might be earlier than whitney. I will know in a few years.
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Post by smsmith on Aug 25, 2017 6:33:30 GMT -6
^^^interesting. Most of the fruit I picked off the Whitney and brought back to the house isn't quite fully ripe. They'll need to sit on a sunny windowsill for a week or so to reach full flavor. Very crisp and crunchy.
I frequently drive past what I believe to be a State Fair apple. That tree has been dropping fruit for close to two weeks. That would be a good, hardy early dropper.
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Post by Sandbur on Aug 25, 2017 11:24:44 GMT -6
This whitney is on a SE slope on the western edge of Meeker county. It had ripe apples during the last of July during one year. It does not look like a state fair to me and was planted many years ago by the grand mother of the former farm's owner.(so probably not a state fair).
Somewhere there is a reference to two different apples being called the whitney crab.
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Post by smsmith on Aug 25, 2017 17:20:25 GMT -6
This whitney is on a SE slope on the western edge of Meeker county. It had ripe apples during the last of July during one year. It does not look like a state fair to me and was planted many years ago by the grand mother of the former farm's owner.(so probably not a state fair). Somewhere there is a reference to two different apples being called the whitney crab. No, I wasn't implying your farmer's tree was a State Fair...just that State Fair drops plenty early. The Whitney we had when I was a kid started dropping in late August most years and would be about done by the end of the first week of September. They tended to ripen and drop pretty quickly and in large "waves" of fruit. Judging from this year, I'm guessing the tree I have here will be similar. I too have read about the possibility of their being two Whitney crabs. |
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Post by coop on Aug 26, 2017 11:00:54 GMT -6
Wild crabs   Was a tall conical tree until a wind storm broke the leader. The fruit is ripe now but it hangs until February |
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Post by coop on Aug 26, 2017 11:02:54 GMT -6
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Post by coop on Aug 26, 2017 11:04:41 GMT -6
 1st year this tree has a heavy load of fruit. It's dropped a few but it's not quite ripe. |
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Post by coop on Aug 26, 2017 11:07:04 GMT -6
 Late frost wiped out last years crop. Most of my trees have monster loads of fruit. This one is a deer favorite. It starts dropping in October.  |
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Post by coop on Aug 26, 2017 11:17:07 GMT -6
 Another late hanger.  |
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Post by wklman on Aug 26, 2017 11:26:36 GMT -6
got some nice trees there coop.
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