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Post by smsmith on Mar 3, 2020 11:54:08 GMT -6
I imagine it will vary by variety. I had pears on two of their trees the following spring after planting them. I have two apples (mislabeled unfortunately) from them that took 2 years to produce their first fruit. All of their trees have grown well and survived -38 (except the two I bought last fall anyway)
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Post by Sandbur on Mar 3, 2020 11:54:42 GMT -6
I stopped by there last fall, but didn't buy any. Are you talking 1, 2, 3 years before those trees produced decent amount of fruit? Any idea? I think any newly planted tree should not be encouraged to fruit for the first few years, especially bare root. Maybe you would be ok with a very large ball of dirt.
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Post by Freeborn on Mar 3, 2020 12:05:54 GMT -6
^ When I purchased my trees last fall the gal who sold me the trees highly recommended a root stimulator for all bare root plantings but in particular for fall planted trees. I think it costs $10 for a quart of concentrate so not to expensive to prohibit using it.
So far a pretty mild winter so hopefully my newly planted trees will do well.
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Post by smsmith on Mar 3, 2020 12:11:45 GMT -6
One thing I will say about Tree Top's trees is that everyone I've bought needed to have some roots cut/trimmed. Pretty common with potted trees. I asked the gal about their operation when I bought trees last fall. None of their trees are over wintered. All arrive bareroot early in the spring (probably about now) and are potted. They are watered/fertilized quite frequently...hence how they put on so much growth. All trees are Bailey Nursery trees. I'm guessing they (Tree Top) buy the largest caliper bareroot stock they are able to.
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Post by Sandbur on Mar 3, 2020 12:13:27 GMT -6
One thing I will say about Tree Top's trees is that everyone I've bought needed to have some roots cut/trimmed. Pretty common with potted trees. I asked the gal about their operation when I bought trees last fall. None of their trees are over wintered. All arrive bareroot early in the spring (probably about now) and are potted. They are watered/fertilized quite frequently...hence how they put on so much growth. All trees are Bailey Nursery trees. I'm guessing they (Tree Top) buy the largest caliper bareroot stock they are able to. The trees I have received from Huls have been large caliper in the past.
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Post by smsmith on Mar 3, 2020 12:19:09 GMT -6
One thing I will say about Tree Top's trees is that everyone I've bought needed to have some roots cut/trimmed. Pretty common with potted trees. I asked the gal about their operation when I bought trees last fall. None of their trees are over wintered. All arrive bareroot early in the spring (probably about now) and are potted. They are watered/fertilized quite frequently...hence how they put on so much growth. All trees are Bailey Nursery trees. I'm guessing they (Tree Top) buy the largest caliper bareroot stock they are able to. The trees I have received from Huls have been large caliper in the past. I've been to Huls one time. That year I'd say their fruit trees were very comparable to Tree Top's. I haven't gone back to Huls. It's a bit farther than Tree Top for me and the weeping willow I bought there (for my wife, she always wanted one and never had one) has really struggled. I bought it in the spring and when I got it home, it clearly had been recently potted. Not great roots and what was there had been pretty much butchered. Very few feeder roots. I'm guessing if I had bought that tree in fall, I would have had better luck.
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Post by Bwoods11 on Mar 3, 2020 12:57:59 GMT -6
The nursery in Parkers Prairie has expensive apple trees (sometimes over $200) but they are big full grown trees or near it (almost like a transplant scenario). I don't know that I would ever go that route.
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Post by smsmith on Mar 3, 2020 13:53:43 GMT -6
^^^I've never been that impatient, but can understand why a person might buy a couple expensive/producing apple trees. I'd never do it anywhere I couldn't run a hose on them daily for a growing season, and I'd never do it just for deer. If you want some of your own apples right now...it makes some sense (though a guy can buy a bunch of really nice, tree ripened apples for a few hundred bucks)
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Post by Bwoods11 on Apr 26, 2020 12:54:21 GMT -6
I purchased a 8' Kinderkrisp last year from Tree Top in Sauk Center. Nice tree that I picked up at the end of the year sale. www.treetopnurserymn.com/When do they have their sale? May? I’m going to Pick up a couple trees.
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Post by Freeborn on Apr 26, 2020 13:29:41 GMT -6
I purchased a 8' Kinderkrisp last year from Tree Top in Sauk Center. Nice tree that I picked up at the end of the year sale. www.treetopnurserymn.com/When do they have their sale? May? I’m going to Pick up a couple trees. It was later in the year, late July I believe.
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Post by smsmith on Apr 27, 2020 13:52:18 GMT -6
Tree Top has an annual sale on remaining trees around Labor Day. I imagine they have other sales throughout the season as well.
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Post by smallchunk on Apr 27, 2020 13:59:30 GMT -6
I traded 3 of my KC trees, a Zestar on B.9, a Galarina on B.118 and a Frostbite on B.118 to a fellow teacher the other day for some freshly butchered chickens. I have three on B.9 at home that have been attacked by the damn rabbits and one in the planter on B.118. Seems like a good apple from what Art says, I like that it is a smaller version of the Honeycrisp. I think my students would love it for a snack!
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Post by Bwoods11 on Apr 27, 2020 14:44:34 GMT -6
Sounds like a good yard tree. Might have to pick one up, just been too busy planting (other trees) lately.
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Post by Freeborn on Apr 27, 2020 14:53:26 GMT -6
Tree Top has an annual sale on remaining trees around Labor Day. I imagine they have other sales throughout the season as well. That sounds more like it. If you want a specific tree get there and buy them as there were a couple of pear trees I wanted but they were sold out.
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Post by smsmith on Apr 27, 2020 18:07:24 GMT -6
Tree Top has an annual sale on remaining trees around Labor Day. I imagine they have other sales throughout the season as well. That sounds more like it. If you want a specific tree get there and buy them as there were a couple of pear trees I wanted but they were sold out. Yes, if a person wants a particular variety I'd just go and get it now. I drove past Tree Top last week and it looked like they had a lot fruit trees out.
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