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Post by chummer16 on Jun 25, 2017 13:30:46 GMT -6
This dolgo was completely girdled at grown level. I buried the girdled part and to my surprise the tree is still alive. Any chance it lives?
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Post by smsmith on Jun 25, 2017 15:47:58 GMT -6
It sure doesn't look like it's dying does it? I'd say in another month or so you'll know for sure
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Post by Sandbur on Jun 26, 2017 3:27:24 GMT -6
Dolgo on dolgo is one tough baby. It might even be growing from suckers that tarted below the graft.
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Post by nhmountains on Jun 26, 2017 4:00:55 GMT -6
Chummer,
Was that M111 rootstock or straight Dolgo rootstock?
Are you going to keep all three leaders or prune to one? Was the growth all from this year or last year?
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Post by chummer16 on Jun 26, 2017 8:43:15 GMT -6
Chummer, Was that M111 rootstock or straight Dolgo rootstock? Are you going to keep all three leaders or prune to one? Was the growth all from this year or last year? This was a misfit tree from the beginning, on its third leaf. It is on B.118 and arrived broken about 18" above the graft. The first year the broken central leader grew very little but it sent up the two othe leaders like rockets. I decided to leave them and see what happens. I have stopped pruning young trees beaches so many break in the winter. Probably should have because the three leaders is why there was not window screen on it. Of coarse the voles found one of the only trees without screen.
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Post by Sandbur on Jun 26, 2017 11:00:56 GMT -6
That looks like dolgo growing and not B118.
Prune to one leader and protect it.
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Post by nhmountains on Jun 26, 2017 12:17:24 GMT -6
That looks like dolgo growing and not B118. Prune to one leader and protect it. Yeah B118 has a reddish tint to the bark and leaf stems. I'm not seeing that. I haven't seen Dolgo but, it looked like M111 to me but, you're the Dolgo expert.
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Post by badbrad on Jun 26, 2017 12:33:35 GMT -6
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Post by chummer16 on Jun 26, 2017 13:09:58 GMT -6
That looks like dolgo growing and not B118. Prune to one leader and protect it. Yeah B118 has a reddish tint to the bark and leaf stems. I'm not seeing that. I haven't seen Dolgo but, it looked like M111 to me but, you're the Dolgo expert. It wòuldnt be the first time Cummins sent me the wrong tree. Thinking about it, this would have been in the same planting as all the chestnut crabs on B.118 I had die after their first winter. Maybe they pulled the trees from the wrong sections. I will check the other Dolgos that came with this one and see if they match.
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Post by chummer16 on Jul 9, 2017 7:55:54 GMT -6
Tree is still looking good. I was wrong on the rootstock, it is on antikova.
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Post by buckvelvet on Jul 10, 2017 9:02:42 GMT -6
Tree is still looking good. I was wrong on the rootstock, it is on antikova. Antonovka is green just like most apples so that could certainly be what your looking at there. Did we trim it back to 1 tree and let it ridge w/ some protection?
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Post by chummer16 on Jul 10, 2017 16:34:10 GMT -6
Tree is still looking good. I was wrong on the rootstock, it is on antikova. Antonovka is green just like most apples so that could certainly be what your looking at there. Did we trim it back to 1 tree and let it ridge w/ some protection? Have not touched it yet. I don't want to jinx it. I plan on screening by fall and I will put the cage back on. If still alive next year I may cut back to one leader. It has a strong will, this one. I may just let it go as is. I have enough single leader trees that don't look as good as this one.
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Post by chummer16 on Jul 22, 2017 16:53:38 GMT -6
Starting to think it will make it.
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