when to look for wild trees

I've found 6-7 trees buried deep in the woods or near the rd. and purposely left them buried. The hole in the bottom of my bucket is cover. I hate to tear up the cover for Apple trees in places I don't go.
I've got a huge crab apple tree close to the rd. It's surrounded by Boxelders. It grows fifty cent sized fruit that dribbles fruit all winter. I'd love to set it free but I already deal with enough dip-shit rd hunters.

Nice Coop.

Take photos of your trees this winter when they lose their leaves. We can give you suggestions on pruning. I had one like yours we opened up for the first time this past March. I bet I took 1000 fruit buds off the wood that we cut but, the tree is now getting light to its center which will help with disease control and its producing a ton of apples again this year.

Circling back on some of the trees I marked this spring to get a fruit ID follow up.

Are all four of these Serviceberry?











Grey Dogwood?



I have been thinking pin cherry

Cut out some competition from one of the trees I found this spring.

I found this tree at a property last fall when sitting in my stand 80 yards away. It had some apples on it, but not all that many. I didn't make time this winter to clear around it. I was headed past it today to hang a stand and figured I'd clear all of the little trees growing up around it and the lower dead stuff with my chainsaw. The apples weren't quite ripe, but I tasted one that had fallen and looked fairly red. It had tough skin and soft inside that reminded me of a Macintosh. It needs some loving this winter!

There is one base and 4-5 different trunks coming out of the one base.