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Post by leexrayshady on Oct 14, 2022 12:27:41 GMT -6
Ok you convinced me I ordered 5 wild apple, 5 red currant, 5 elderberry. where is the best place to get tubes for the apples from?
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Post by smsmith on Oct 14, 2022 12:31:46 GMT -6
Ok you convinced me I ordered 5 wild apple, 5 red currant, 5 elderberry. where is the best place to get tubes for the apples from? If you're only buying a few, getting them from the SWCD may be as cheap/easy as you're going to get. The Quicky Trees guy has 5'ers for $6 www.quickytrees.com/tree-tubes.html
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Post by Bwoods11 on Oct 14, 2022 13:47:12 GMT -6
There is a guy in Iowa that sells 5 foot tubes....Mike Hamilton (Timber Management LLC). Good guy, and the tubes are nice quality.
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Post by Sandbur on Oct 14, 2022 14:49:49 GMT -6
Ok you convinced me I ordered 5 wild apple, 5 red currant, 5 elderberry. where is the best place to get tubes for the apples from? If you're only buying a few, getting them from the SWCD may be as cheap/easy as you're going to get. The Quicky Trees guy has 5'ers for $6 www.quickytrees.com/tree-tubes.html That is Luke Miller from Midwest Deer Trees. He has a couple of my crabs and a new wild crab that is less than a mile from my house. He has noticed it for a few years and I have watched it for decades. We tasted it and it sure is a spitter. Cider people that want bitters might like it. Wild Azz.
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Post by smsmith on Oct 15, 2022 7:10:39 GMT -6
Ok you convinced me I ordered 5 wild apple, 5 red currant, 5 elderberry. where is the best place to get tubes for the apples from? Let me know how your elderberries do. I ordered a handful of them from Indiana Berry last spring. The last I checked they are all still alive. I'd like to start making elderberry syrup.
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Post by smsmith on Oct 19, 2022 8:36:52 GMT -6
I lost a couple trees this year, and will plan to fill those spots with something next year. I checked prices at a couple places for Antonovka rootstocks + shipping. I can get wild apple plugs from U of ID for less, so I may just order 5-10 and plant the extras in the woods somewhere. I should probably just start some seeds from my own trees and wait a year, that'd be the cheapest option...I just ate one of my few Tolman Sweets. Saving seeds from them and growing them out may be a waste of time, but if I could get a seedling similar to Tolman I'd sure be happy. Think I'll save what seeds I can get from them this year. Next spring I'll plant them in some styrofoam plug flats I still have from the old NCR and see what happens. I've got a few dozen seeds set aside in the fridge now. Laid in bed last night trying to come up with somewhere I could plant them. I've got nothing. Maybe I'll give them to the neighbor.
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Post by kooch on Oct 19, 2022 13:29:42 GMT -6
^^^^ Sad day when a man can't find a place to put his seed. I'm getting older, but I still haven't gotten THAT old...
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Post by Sandbur on Oct 19, 2022 14:50:54 GMT -6
^^^^ Sad day when a man can't find a place to put his seed. I'm getting older, but I still haven't gotten THAT old... I reread Stu’s post after yours and I am still laughing.
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Post by smsmith on Oct 21, 2022 8:33:57 GMT -6
I'm happy to report I've figured out where I could plant at least a few seedlings from the seeds I've saved I can drop some along marsh edges and just let 'em go. I'd put a 4' hardware cloth tube around them and see if they survive. That goes against how I grow my other fruit trees, but at least they'd have a chance to add food to the property.
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Post by Sandbur on Oct 21, 2022 9:12:45 GMT -6
I'm happy to report I've figured out where I could plant at least a few seedlings from the seeds I've saved I can drop some along marsh edges and just let 'em go. I'd put a 4' hardware cloth tube around them and see if they survive. That goes against how I grow my other fruit trees, but at least they'd have a chance to add food to the property. Which varieties did you pull seeds from?
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Post by smsmith on Oct 21, 2022 9:19:24 GMT -6
I'm happy to report I've figured out where I could plant at least a few seedlings from the seeds I've saved I can drop some along marsh edges and just let 'em go. I'd put a 4' hardware cloth tube around them and see if they survive. That goes against how I grow my other fruit trees, but at least they'd have a chance to add food to the property. Which varieties did you pull seeds from? Tolman Sweet, Smitty's Seedling, and Golden Russet oh, and just a few from Keepsake. I really like Keepsake but the damn tree doesn't produce much for fruit.
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Post by Bwoods11 on Oct 22, 2022 8:35:03 GMT -6
Common Wild Apple might be the easiest fruit tree to grow for us (amateurs). They also seem to be very drought tolerant! Grow fast, some apples early.
Win win !
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Post by smsmith on Oct 22, 2022 8:45:53 GMT -6
Common Wild Apple might be the easiest fruit tree to grow for us (amateurs). They also seem to be very drought tolerant! Grow fast, some apples early. Win win ! They do seem to be easy to grow. Mine are planted on some of my lighter soils and sure grew well this year. Winter is always the biggest test. If they all come through next spring I'll be happy. I probably should have ordered 10 of them instead of 5 On our last Ranger ride I found a couple of new ditch apples. Seeing those trees loaded with fruit slightly smaller than tennis balls was pretty cool. I've decided to let the apple plugs "be themselves" until they fruit. I was going to use them as rootstocks, but they may end up producing fruit better than what I would graft.
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Post by smsmith on Nov 15, 2022 7:30:50 GMT -6
Common Wild Apple might be the easiest fruit tree to grow for us (amateurs). They also seem to be very drought tolerant! Grow fast, some apples early. Win win ! They do seem to be easy to grow. Mine are planted on some of my lighter soils and sure grew well this year. Winter is always the biggest test. If they all come through next spring I'll be happy. I probably should have ordered 10 of them instead of 5 On our last Ranger ride I found a couple of new ditch apples. Seeing those trees loaded with fruit slightly smaller than tennis balls was pretty cool. I've decided to let the apple plugs "be themselves" until they fruit. I was going to use them as rootstocks, but they may end up producing fruit better than what I would graft. Sent the U of ID an email last night to see if I can add 5 more apple plugs. I've got a new plan for the edge of a foodplot 5 more plugs will add $19.05 (including shipping) to my order. Seems fair. 5 Antonovka rootstocks from Burnt Ridge would cost $20 PLUS $23 shipping.
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Post by Bwoods11 on Jun 11, 2023 16:14:40 GMT -6
This pic is about 10+ days ago . Common Wild Apple plug from U of Idaho . I let them go wild. Do you guys prune or trim the wild apple or crabapple trees?
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