So who still has apples hanging

[WTNUT]

No tricks, just typical Vermont. We don't have many mature bucks, low deer numbers and tons of wild apples. You can't drive 100 yards down my road without seeing a wild apple. Most years apples rot on the ground around here, but there are a few they really want. Galarina is certainly one of them.

Maya,

You raise a good point. I have tons of deer and probably the only apple trees within a few miles of me. Maybe five miles. I have noticed there are some apples the deer just don't seem to care much about. Other than Galerina, are there others the deer seem to prefer? Happy Thanksgiving to you and everyone on the Forum.


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[Dan Wombles]

Nice looking trees Aerospace. Minor thread shift... I am curious what the spacing between these trees is. I have settled on 25' spacing, but I am a bit torn when trying to cram a few more into a limited space. Most of my trees are on B.118 and a few MM.111 rootstocks.

I plant my b118’s and m111’s 18 feet apart with rows 20 feet apart

 

[aerospacefarmer]

The deer here are bending the crap out of my cages to get those inside the cages. They are bending them to ground and also reaching up on hind legs to get the still hanging apples

 

[4wanderingeyes]

I had a bear break one of my trees down to get at a couple apples. This is the best picture I have of the tree, but it is about half broken off. I should have trimmed the broken branch off when I was up there, but I forgot too.

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[Bowsnbucks]

I can feel for ya, 4wandering. Bears are no fun, unless in the crosshairs. Very destructive.

 

[Apple Junkie]

Just as a point of reference, it's November 25th, and this Ida Red is still holding quite a few apples in western NY.

 

[Bowsnbucks]

As of 11-30-2017, the unknown late-hanging yellowish-green apple at camp still has about 50 apples on it and our Winter Wildlife crabs are still holding their 1" red apples. Our Goldrush and Enterprise apples were eaten by camp members, or they'd still be on the trees.

 

[WTNUT]

Just as a point of reference, it's November 25th, and this Ida Red is still holding quite a few apples in western NY. View attachment 15841

If you look at what is written on the apple it almost always says harvest early fall. I would ignore it but for your pic and posts.


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[WTNUT]

Got a few pics today.

Goldrush
Liberty
Galarina
Centennial
Honeygold
Wolf river
Black oxford
Kerr
Enterprise
Frostbite
Monster crab
Winter wildlife crab

These are a few pics.

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Ed what is hanging now?


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[Knehrke]

This weekend saw a large amount of deer passing by this wild tree looking for drops. Sorry for the low-light picture. The tree is due for a haircut this winter. I also have two different wild crabs that are holding. My suspicion is that one of them won't drop at all, but the other is a late season magnet--we have a week left in gun, then another ten days of muzzy/bow.

 

[Bowsnbucks]

Another update - As of 12/9/2017, our Winter Wildlife crabs and the yellowish-green unknown apple are still holding many apples at camp. I also found that a B-118 rootstock has about 10 apples on it that are about 1" to 1 1/4" dia. It's been in the ground for 5 years. I forgot to check that B-118 rootstock before this week and I was happy to find the red apples on it. Our lowest temp. this past week was 19 degrees at camp.

 

[tinytim]

I found these while working this week. Wild trees in the middle of nowhere, the yellow ones are bitter and hard as a rock, laying on the ground uneaten. The red ones have been frozen a couple times but still pretty good, not a single one left under the tree and the ground has been trampled to mud. I will be going back to get some scions from it later in the winter.
Grammie also tells me the northern spy trees are still holding, I'll be grafting more of those this spring

 

[Bowsnbucks]

I'd be after those red apple scions too !! They look good hanging on the tree.

 

[greyphase]

Pictures taken last Sat.

Sinkhole apple.

 

[sandbur]

Another update - As of 12/9/2017, our Winter Wildlife crabs and the yellowish-green unknown apple are still holding many apples at camp. I also found that a B-118 rootstock has about 10 apples on it that are about 1" to 1 1/4" dia. It's been in the ground for 5 years. I forgot to check that B-118 rootstock before this week and I was happy to find the red apples on it. Our lowest temp. this past week was 19 degrees at camp.

I have two B-118 s in third leaf or so. Did you taste those apples from it?


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[Maya]

I've still got lots of different varieties holding apples still. One of those years. I'm not sure of the reason(s), but I'll see if I can get an answer at my next seminar I go to from one of the Apple Gods from one of the universities. :)

I suspect it has something to do w/ the health of the tree going into winter. Just one more variable.

 

[Bowsnbucks]

Sandbur - Nope. I didn't taste any of those B-118 apples. I should have, I guess. By the time I noticed them, they had been hit by several frosts and had started to shrivel. I don't think I'd have gotten a good accurate taste. They were in a spot that I hadn't checked until they were past prime.

 

[Maya]

Anyone else have a lot of scrapes around your property this year? This cam is on an old apple tree that always seems to have scrapes, but many of my apples had scrapes under them this year. I suppose it could just be the buck to doe ratio, but I've just never seen so many in my orchards before. The only thing I got on cam was this 2 year old and a couple spikes.

I just took another look around, none of the wild trees have apples left hanging, but many of the planted trees do. I took the snow blower and cleared out the 20+ inches of snow out from under a bunch of trees for the deer. It cut a bunch of the apples up in smaller pieces, we'll see if they like it. I also cut some branches on a tree and left them for the deer to munch on. It's going to be a rough winter for them here in Vermont! We were supposed to get 1-3" this morning and we ended up getting 8-9".

 

[Maya]

I have two B-118 s in third leaf or so. Did you taste those apples from it?


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I tried some from a B9 Art, they were awful sour!

 

[sandbur]

I tried some from a B9 Art, they were awful sour!

Somewhere on here, Lois had a post on B118’s. If I get a crop and they are not fit for applesauce I would probably just mix them in for cider.

Good to hear from you, George. Merry Christmas!


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