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Post by Sandbur on May 27, 2019 10:13:16 GMT -6
Hopefully these last two days the trees really got pollinated because our trees in east central mn were full bloom! Those trees from you are doing well. Thanks!
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Post by Sandbur on May 27, 2019 10:20:44 GMT -6
Your area is definitely ahead of mine Art. I'd guess close to a week. Wild plums are just hitting full bloom here. My Whitney crab is pretty close to full bloom, but that's an early bloomer. I need to check my Whitney for blossoms, but it has not given me an apple yet. I need to check my back trees on the slight north slope. I did find one best of tent caterpillars in the deer apples SW of the house. I also found an apple that I had planted many years ago that was surrounded by tag alders. I released it as well as opened up around two of the apple trees from Grandma. They are full of blossoms this year. Lots of old rubs from last year in that area. Here are the two seedlings from Grandma that I planted almost 30 years ago. This was open pasture. Now I have to cut tag alders to get light to them.
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Post by Sandbur on May 27, 2019 10:25:56 GMT -6
These three trees are root suckers from my oldest chestnut crab. I hope to see if they produce a bird crab, a deer crab, or a cider crab.
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Post by smsmith on May 27, 2019 10:45:54 GMT -6
Your area is definitely ahead of mine Art. I'd guess close to a week. Wild plums are just hitting full bloom here. My Whitney crab is pretty close to full bloom, but that's an early bloomer. I need to check my Whitney for blossoms, but it has not given me an apple yet.I need to check my back trees on the slight north slope. I did find one best of tent caterpillars in the deer apples SW of the house. I also found an apple that I had planted many years ago that was surrounded by tag alders. I released it as well as opened up around two of the apple trees from Grandma. They are full of blossoms this year. Lots of old rubs from last year in that area. It's always interesting to me how different varieties grow differently on different sites. My Whitney is loaded with blossoms for the 3rd year in a row. It was planted in '13. Got it from Stark Bros. on semi-dwarf rootstock, I'm guessing m7 I've found at least 3 more wild crabs that are blooming for the first time this year. I need to remember to always have a roll of surveyor tape in a pocket.
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Post by smallchunk on May 27, 2019 10:52:06 GMT -6
Hopefully these last two days the trees really got pollinated because our trees in east central mn were full bloom! Those trees from you are doing well. Thanks! If you get a chance, take some pics and post them! I miss seeing them every day 😉
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Post by Sandbur on May 27, 2019 11:27:12 GMT -6
Those trees from you are doing well. Thanks! If you get a chance, take some pics and post them! I miss seeing them every day 😉 I will, but you might not be impressed. I just stripped some of the B118 growth off of the rootstock. I also cut them back when transplanting. Maybe not necessary for those from the rootrappers, but it is habit for me. I just pulled some B118 off of the Haralson about an hour ago and thumb pruned to two shots of growth. I will select one of those in a week or two.
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Post by Sandbur on May 27, 2019 11:28:33 GMT -6
I need to check my Whitney for blossoms, but it has not given me an apple yet.I need to check my back trees on the slight north slope. I did find one best of tent caterpillars in the deer apples SW of the house. I also found an apple that I had planted many years ago that was surrounded by tag alders. I released it as well as opened up around two of the apple trees from Grandma. They are full of blossoms this year. Lots of old rubs from last year in that area. It's always interesting to me how different varieties grow differently on different sites. My Whitney is loaded with blossoms for the 3rd year in a row. It was planted in '13. Got it from Stark Bros. on semi-dwarf rootstock, I'm guessing m7 I've found at least 3 more wild crabs that are blooming for the first time this year. I need to remember to always have a roll of surveyor tape in a pocket. My Whitney is on dolgo and must be ten foot tall. I grafted it myself. Maybe a blossom will appear yet.
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Post by Sandbur on May 27, 2019 11:30:47 GMT -6
I need to check my Whitney for blossoms, but it has not given me an apple yet.I need to check my back trees on the slight north slope. I did find one best of tent caterpillars in the deer apples SW of the house. I also found an apple that I had planted many years ago that was surrounded by tag alders. I released it as well as opened up around two of the apple trees from Grandma. They are full of blossoms this year. Lots of old rubs from last year in that area. It's always interesting to me how different varieties grow differently on different sites. My Whitney is loaded with blossoms for the 3rd year in a row. It was planted in '13. Got it from Stark Bros. on semi-dwarf rootstock, I'm guessing m7 I've found at least 3 more wild crabs that are blooming for the first time this year. I need to remember to always have a roll of surveyor tape in a pocket. If you remember where we jumped that big deer in July one year, across the ditch, I recently found a crab that is almost 5 inches in diameter over there. I need to see what type of apple it produces, but I don’t want to disturb that spot too much.
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Post by honker on May 27, 2019 12:42:26 GMT -6
Many trees are approaching full bloom. That is a beautiful setup you have there.
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Post by smsmith on May 27, 2019 18:08:15 GMT -6
It's always interesting to me how different varieties grow differently on different sites. My Whitney is loaded with blossoms for the 3rd year in a row. It was planted in '13. Got it from Stark Bros. on semi-dwarf rootstock, I'm guessing m7 I've found at least 3 more wild crabs that are blooming for the first time this year. I need to remember to always have a roll of surveyor tape in a pocket. If you remember where we jumped that big deer in July one year, across the ditch, I recently found a crab that is almost 5 inches in diameter over there. I need to see what type of apple it produces, but I don’t want to disturb that spot too much. I do remember that spot, and I do know why you don't want to disturb that area too much. Nice find though
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Post by smsmith on May 28, 2019 18:27:00 GMT -6
After looking at all of this year's topworks, I'm thinking this may be the least successful year I've had. I'm hopeful that it's just thanks to the cold, wet spring and they'll still pop...but I'm losing faith
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Post by benmnwi on May 28, 2019 20:23:47 GMT -6
After looking at all of this year's topworks, I'm thinking this may be the least successful year I've had. I'm hopeful that it's just thanks to the cold, wet spring and they'll still pop...but I'm losing faith My grafted rootstocks are looking good, but my top works are not. This is my first year top working, so I'm not sure what to expect. But thus far it seems far less successful than grafting rootstock.
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Post by nhmountains on May 29, 2019 4:11:21 GMT -6
After looking at all of this year's topworks, I'm thinking this may be the least successful year I've had. I'm hopeful that it's just thanks to the cold, wet spring and they'll still pop...but I'm losing faith My grafted rootstocks are looking good, but my top works are not. This is my first year top working, so I'm not sure what to expect. But thus far it seems far less successful than grafting rootstock. I’d say the top work on my trees is always 3-4 weeks. How long ago did you guys top work? Mine at home haven’t popped yet. It’s been a colder wet spring as well. Trees here are 1-2 weeks behind normal.
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Post by Sandbur on May 29, 2019 4:43:45 GMT -6
Some top works I wrapped with paradigm. Some had just a dab o toilet ring wax. I fear the latter are drying out.
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Post by chummer16 on May 29, 2019 6:27:22 GMT -6
I noticed some of my thin scion top works are looking shriveled but the majority have good swelling going on and look like they will pop. The one I did at home has 2” of growth already but we are 2-3 weeks ahead down here.
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