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Post by Sandbur on Feb 17, 2017 20:42:01 GMT -6
Hey Art You had sent me some Chestnut seeds quite a while back. I found them stuffed in the utility drawer in the kitchen.... Another case of being stashed by the wife.... I put them in the fridge a couple months ago and many are popping now. When do I decide to put them in dirt??? That must have been years ago. I can't even remember it. Maybe Stu can answer better than me, but if shoots(radicles?) are coming out, I would carefully ease them in the ground. I think you would put the shoot down.
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Post by Sandbur on Feb 17, 2017 20:42:29 GMT -6
And do not plant them too deep.
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Post by biglakebass on Feb 17, 2017 21:28:01 GMT -6
I have potting soil thawing out now. Gonna plant the ones with a sprout tomorrow. No clue what I am doing, but gonna give it a try.
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Post by Bwoods11 on Feb 19, 2017 8:47:46 GMT -6
I have potting soil thawing out now. Gonna plant the ones with a sprout tomorrow. No clue what I am doing, but gonna give it a try. BLB-- what have you planted up on your OTC farm. I have a Chestnut crab, wolf river and Liberty and a few mixed small fruit crabs going in up on my Parkers farm.
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Post by Bwoods11 on Sept 29, 2019 18:18:08 GMT -6
Ordered a couple more for next year. I hear and read you can’t really go wrong with Chestnut Crab!
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Post by smsmith on Sept 29, 2019 18:22:42 GMT -6
Ordered a couple more for next year. I hear and read you can’t really go wrong with Chestnut Crab! You've spent way too much time with Art
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Post by Sandbur on Sept 29, 2019 19:31:16 GMT -6
My chestnuts are still dropping some apples. I would guess about a 4 week drop time this year.
I have/ had lots of apples on some of my chestnuts after the cold winter. They can tend to have heavy crops every other year. Fertilization/ pruning can counter this a bit.
A commercial cider producer was also looking for 300-400 bushels of chestnut crabs. I just had a bit of ice cider from him.
Three good points.
Bwoods and BLB are getting the addiction.
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Post by Bwoods11 on Sept 30, 2019 8:07:17 GMT -6
I just want simple and easy, Chestnut Crab seems to fit the bill.
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Post by Freeborn on Sept 30, 2019 8:08:21 GMT -6
I just want simple and easy, Chestnut Crab seems to fit the bill. Where did you source them?
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Post by Bwoods11 on Sept 30, 2019 8:12:02 GMT -6
I ordered 2 from Turkey Creek Trees (Chris Pool) along with Prairie Spy and State Fair and a Dolgo, ...I might pick up a couple other trees next spring from Sauk Centre or Alexandria nurseries as well.
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Post by jbird on Sept 30, 2019 10:41:50 GMT -6
I bought 3 dolgo and 3 chestnut crabs from Chris in the past and they have done real well so far...no apples yet. They seem to be doing fine (need some pruning this winter). I have others on order from him now. I am getting a pair of liberty, yates, Arkansas black & Enterprise....hoping to focus on my hunting times (oct/nov) and spreading things out a bit. Hopefully these will be fairly issue free for me. I have no intention of eating any myself....just another step in moving to a more long term food source for the critters vs my annual plots. Only way I will go "all in" on a particular variety is once I have some demonstrated success with it.
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Post by Bwoods11 on Sept 30, 2019 11:30:51 GMT -6
I hear great things about Arkansas Black for states like yours-Indiana
My buddy in Iowa has it ranked #1 overall in his orchard.
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Post by smsmith on Sept 30, 2019 11:56:00 GMT -6
My chestnuts are still dropping some apples. I would guess about a 4 week drop time this year. I have/ had lots of apples on some of my chestnuts after the cold winter. They can tend to have heavy crops every other year. Fertilization/ pruning can counter this a bit. A commercial cider producer was also looking for 300-400 bushels of chestnut crabs. I just had a bit of ice cider from him. Three good points. Bwoods and BLB are getting the addiction. That's a shitload of fruit. I can't believe there are too many orchards around that would have enough chestnut crabs to fill an order like that.
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Post by smsmith on Sept 30, 2019 12:08:10 GMT -6
FWIW...Ark. Black is a triploid and requires at least 2 other different varieties blooming at the same time in order to be pollinated
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Post by jbird on Sept 30, 2019 12:14:17 GMT -6
I hear great things about Arkansas Black for states like yours-Indiana My buddy in Iowa has it ranked #1 overall in his orchard. I did some searching from some "apple nerds" in my relative area and did a fair amount of digging on the forums to come up with my list. One of the sites I got pointed towards was one where a couple of universities got together and did some apple testing and their trees where a little north of me (about 2 hours drive) and thus their data is very relevant to my area....specifically drop times. "PRI" I think is the name of it. It was thru Purdue, Rutgers & Illinois Universities. It does me no good to have apples on the tree after my hunting season is over or have them on the ground and gone before. Sure it feeds the deer....but I'm using these to improve my hunting. Maybe that is a bit shallow of me...but it's the truth. As I find the variety that seems to work the best....then I will stock up, convert or try to fill "gaps". But my hunting window (by choice) is fairly narrow....11/1 thru 12/15. www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/pri/
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