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Post by Sandbur on Apr 18, 2020 5:08:05 GMT -6
The Courthouse Crab on dolgo grew well for me last year.
ABC has that berry flavor at a certain time of ripeness. I suspect it has dolgo blood in it, but I have it marked as a seedling from a wild crab. Stu named it.
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Post by smallchunk on Apr 18, 2020 5:11:28 GMT -6
The Courthouse Crab on dolgo grew well for me last year. ABC has that berry flavor at a certain time of ripeness. I suspect it has dolgo blood in it, but I have it marked as a seedling from a wild crab. Stu named it. I love the name ABC Crab. Looks as though growing it is as easy as ABC, 1,2,3! |
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Post by Sandbur on Apr 18, 2020 7:13:30 GMT -6
The Courthouse Crab on dolgo grew well for me last year. ABC has that berry flavor at a certain time of ripeness. I suspect it has dolgo blood in it, but I have it marked as a seedling from a wild crab. Stu named it. I love the name ABC Crab. Looks as though growing it is as easy as ABC, 1,2,3! Was your ABC graft a tongue and groove on the side? |
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Post by smallchunk on Apr 18, 2020 11:14:13 GMT -6
I love the name ABC Crab. Looks as though growing it is as easy as ABC, 1,2,3! Was your ABC graft a tongue and groove on the side? Yep! |
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Post by Sandbur on Apr 18, 2020 15:35:42 GMT -6
Bench grafted 5 today and found I had more rootstock than I expected. I found a place where I might just plant a couple as is. Might bench graft two or three more tomorrow.
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Post by Sandbur on Apr 18, 2020 15:52:49 GMT -6
I had to try root grafting, not because I was short of rootstock, but just to say I did it.   i dipped the whole scion in wax after taping. Should I plant this with the tape above ground or just below ground and dig a bit to slit the tape in July if it takes? i will probably keep this one in the garden to keep an eye on it. |
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Post by nhmountains on Apr 28, 2020 10:19:23 GMT -6
I did 15 varieties on Friday. All cleft grafts. We will see in a few weeks how I did. I’ll try top working a few trees at the end of April. I pulled my grafts out today. They were done on March 27 and put in my dark unheated barn room. They look like most are popping or swells buds so that’s a good sign. The B118 rootstock are popping leaves. I’ve got to get them in rootrapper bags tonight.   |
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Post by Sandbur on Apr 28, 2020 16:29:51 GMT -6
 Time will tell if the mounds are big enough for the trees or not. |
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Post by benmnwi on May 1, 2020 20:45:50 GMT -6
 my red splendor crabapple rootstock arrived today from the county tree sale and I was very dissappointed. This is the 5th year I've purchased trees ftom them and they are half the size of all prior orders. In the past I struggled to graft because the rootstock was do big, but this year it was too small. Half of the 25 trees were 1/8" diameter at best. I didn't cut much scion for rootstock that small, but I must say stu plans better than i do and the scion he sent me had some with diameters small enough to work well. I I grafted them anyway and I'll hope for the best. The roots looked decent, so if the grafts fail I'll have some rootstock for next year. I have lots of leftover scion for top working, so j spent an hour on that tonight. |
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Post by nhmountains on May 8, 2020 18:32:43 GMT -6
I checked my Linda Sweet graft today and it’s popping a blossom bud. So that leads me to ask why? I’ve always the fruit buds grew on two year old wood and on the spurs? The dormant buds on the scion looked like regular leave buds. Right now that’s the only bud to pop on that graft so I’m going to let it go. If other buds pop then I may rub this one off. I had a graft on my frankentree that was a blossom and that graft has never popped with growth. It’s maybe 3-4”. Thoughts?
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Post by smsmith on May 8, 2020 19:08:12 GMT -6
I checked my Linda Sweet graft today and it’s popping a blossom bud. So that leads me to ask why? I’ve always the fruit buds grew on two year old wood and on the spurs? The dormant buds on the scion looked like regular leave buds. Right now that’s the only bud to pop on that graft so I’m going to let it go. If other buds pop then I may rub this one off. I had a graft on my frankentree that was a blossom and that graft has never popped with growth. It’s maybe 3-4”. Thoughts? I had the same thing happen with an Eda scion from GRIN last spring. I pinched off the flowers once they fully opened. That scion didn't put on much growth last year, but I checked today and it is alive and greening up. |
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Post by nhmountains on May 8, 2020 22:05:30 GMT -6
I checked my Linda Sweet graft today and it’s popping a blossom bud. So that leads me to ask why? I’ve always the fruit buds grew on two year old wood and on the spurs? The dormant buds on the scion looked like regular leave buds. Right now that’s the only bud to pop on that graft so I’m going to let it go. If other buds pop then I may rub this one off. I had a graft on my frankentree that was a blossom and that graft has never popped with growth. It’s maybe 3-4”. Thoughts? I had the same thing happen with an Eda scion from GRIN last spring. I pinched off the flowers once they fully opened. That scion didn't put on much growth last year, but I checked today and it is alive and greening up. So my gut is telling me that scions taken from the lower s cation if longer shoots may have the fruit bud in them mature enough to do this whereas the scions higher up on longer shoots would not. I haven’t seen that happen very often but, they do seem to be slower growing the first few seasons. Maybe long term. |
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Post by nhmountains on May 8, 2020 22:08:08 GMT -6
I planted two Whitney crabs this spring. One was way ahead of the other. Now that I think of it I remember one of them having flowers early on.
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Post by smallchunk on May 9, 2020 3:32:25 GMT -6
I checked my Linda Sweet graft today and it’s popping a blossom bud. So that leads me to ask why? I’ve always the fruit buds grew on two year old wood and on the spurs? The dormant buds on the scion looked like regular leave buds. Right now that’s the only bud to pop on that graft so I’m going to let it go. If other buds pop then I may rub this one off. I had a graft on my frankentree that was a blossom and that graft has never popped with growth. It’s maybe 3-4”. Thoughts? I had the same thing happen with an Eda scion from GRIN last spring. I pinched off the flowers once they fully opened. That scion didn't put on much growth last year, but I checked today and it is alive and greening up. Yep. This year I have a bunch of them with flower blossoms. I believe Courthouse crab, ABC, Almata, Hazen and winter red flesh are all trying to through flowers. It’s never a good thing due to the lack of growth, but it isn’t the end of the world! |
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Post by Sandbur on May 9, 2020 5:32:55 GMT -6
I had the same thing happen with an Eda scion from GRIN last spring. I pinched off the flowers once they fully opened. That scion didn't put on much growth last year, but I checked today and it is alive and greening up. Yep. This year I have a bunch of them with flower blossoms. I believe Courthouse crab, ABC, Almata, Hazen and winter red flesh are all trying to through flowers. It’s never a good thing due to the lack of growth, but it isn’t the end of the world! They are from the same source or the same general area? Could last year’s growth cycle have been involved? I grafted a Golden Hornet about five years ago that did the same and it has blossomed every year. The other one I grafted at the same time might have had it’s first blossoms this year... except for this frost. |
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