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Post by nhmountains on Apr 16, 2017 17:07:08 GMT -6
These are two wild apple trees that grew from the same apple that I found near my New Hampshire Gold apple tree. I separated them as seedlings in 2010. The first one initially grew faster then the other one. It was shallow rooted and needed to be staked. It had a few blossoms and started a couple apples in 2014. They got killed off by a late frost. Then it had quite a few apples in 2015. I'd guess over 50. Many hung through March. I was expecting good things in 2016 but, late frosts killed most of the apples. It had maybe 15 or so apples. It's leaning again so I am going to straighten it up next weekend.  This is the brother of the other tree. It was always behind in growth of the brother because a large birch shaded it more. It has never flowered but, last year started growing fruit spurs. It is now much larger than the brother tree that I let bare fruit and is loaded with many nice spurs this year. It's root system is much better too. So I guess the moral of the story is to maybe pinch flowers or snip small apples when they're young so they grow the framework to support a large crop of apples. Doing that an extra year or two can make a big difference.   |
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Post by nhmountains on May 21, 2017 17:57:14 GMT -6
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Post by smsmith on May 21, 2017 18:14:44 GMT -6
My philosophy is that once a tree is in it's 3rd leaf, it gets to bear at least a few fruits
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Post by nhmountains on May 21, 2017 18:38:20 GMT -6
This is the first year that second tree has had blossoms. It grew wood early on instead of fruit buds. They had been partially blocked by those large white birch that we took down this winter so now they'll have full sun all day long. The fruit should pull the limbs down and produce more spurs for next year. I've got to get down in tge woods where I planted the third brother from this group. It's behind these two right now due to less sun and early deer browsing.
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Post by Tooln on May 21, 2017 19:06:45 GMT -6
My philosophy is that once a tree is in it's 3rd leaf, it gets to bear at least a few fruits What do you mean by 3rd leaf. |
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Post by smsmith on May 21, 2017 19:13:10 GMT -6
3rd leaf means the 3rd year a tree has been in it's current location.
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Post by Sandbur on May 22, 2017 20:21:55 GMT -6
I have three Noran topworks from this spring and all three are trying to flower.
Golden Hornet did the same after I bench grafted it about two years ago. It has bloomed every year.
Should I expect the same from Noran?
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Post by Sandbur on May 23, 2017 4:08:36 GMT -6
I have three Noran topworks from this spring and all three are trying to flower. Golden Hornet did the same after I bench grafted it about two years ago. It has bloomed every year. Should I expect the same from Noran? Noran on Anty. I need to keep pulling these off.  pix image |
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Post by Sandbur on May 23, 2017 4:11:18 GMT -6
Wamdesa on a dolgo seedling, topworked one year ago. I need a ladder to get these blossoms removed.  |
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Post by nhmountains on May 23, 2017 5:37:31 GMT -6
Looks like you've had great grafting results Art! That looks like great growth. If that graft from last year is loaded with fruit it might snap so I'd pull them if yiu can. Maybe wait until the bloom is over so they provide pollen for other trees.
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Post by Sandbur on May 23, 2017 8:26:10 GMT -6
Looks like you've had great grafting results Art! That looks like great growth. If that graft from last year is loaded with fruit it might snap so I'd pull them if yiu can. Maybe wait until the bloom is over so they provide pollen for other trees. I need to take a ladder down to get the blooms off of one of these trees. I do worry about them snapping off with a fruit load. |
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