Recent content by doublelunger

I got an email from Cummins this morning that they had 10 more Franklin on Bud118 available for purchase so I quickly bought 2 of them. I look forward to making some hard cider with these apples in a few years...

Yeah I contacted them yesterday as well and they told me the bad news that they're all sold out of the Franklin apple tree again. Always a day late and a dollar short!

I mailed out the different varieties people had asked from me this morning so you should be getting them next week sometime.

I pruned my orchard over the weekend and I was able to get several nice sticks of 1 year old wood from the following: Enterprise Liberty Galarina Gold Rush If anyone is interested in any of these varieties please pm me.

Thank you Rally, at least let us pay you for the shipping for the scionwood.

Thanks Rally!

Very cool!

I'm looking for some good crabapple scion wood for deer, varieties like: Chestnut crabapple All-Winter Hangover Winter Wildlife crab Trailman crab Violi's hanging crab Wickson crab Centennial crab I have a backyard orchard of 90 trees but it is still fairly young, the oldest trees are now 5...

I feel your pain WTNUT, last year coons ate all of my apples off of my 5 producing trees (my orchard is young). This year they ate all of my Zestars on my 1 tree and most on the other! I finally decided enough was enough and I bought 4 of the Bridger T3 Dogproof Raccoon Traps and in the first...

Dolgo crab apple has been a very fast grower for me, I haven't gotten any fruit yet (planted seedlings in 2014) but a lot of the 12" whips I planted were 5' tall by the end of that first summer.

I live in Lansing, MI and my backyard orchard barely escaped the spring frosts other's received. On May 15th the low temp at my house was 33.2, the 16th it was 32.7, and on May 23rd it got down to 36.3. All of my varieties are looking great and there appears to be no frost damage, a few...

When I originally grafted my trees this spring using the whip and tongue bench graft method I left 2 buds per scion wood. On about 90% of the successful grafts both buds took off and most of them are in the 6-12" length range now. What I did last night as I was watering the trees was on all...

This is my first time grafting but I noticed when I put my 50 grafts outdoors into their home for the summer in a raised planter box 3 of my 48 successful grafts did something similar. The leaves curled up, turned brown and then fell right off the tree. There's been no new growth either on the...

Probably more like beginners luck! Thank you to all who have posted helpful tips and suggestions on how to successfully graft trees, I'm sure they wouldn't have turned out nearly as well without all the info I've received from this site.

After reading numerous posts from many of you who have grafted your own fruit trees I decided I wanted to give it a try this year too. I ordered 50, 1/4" Bud118 rootstock seedlings from Copenhaven farms located in Oregon. I explained to them that this was my first attempt at grafting trees and...