Recent content by RGrizzzz

Are you fertilizing? With what? How much of it? How is the pH? How have you been drought wise? I know a lot of PA had significant drought the last few summers. That could explain productions issues.

I bet garlic salt or powder would work too. It's in many of the critter repellent products. It's cheap in bulk. If the skunks are Italian, it could have the opposite effect.

We have a late hanging apple at our camp. Most years fruit can hang until January. We usually shake some off during rifle season and anything that's left during flintlock after Xmas. I sent scion to Ryan at Blue Hill a few years ago. He told me it fruited for the first time this year, and it...

No heading cuts for me. I will trim low laterals if they have them

Buzz Ferver is the guy behind Perfect Circle Farm. He finds a lot of road side trees to propagate. Most come from Vermont, where he lives. He offers some varieties that sound very unique. He says he doesn't spray them either. https://www.perfectcircle.farm/vermont-wild-apples/vermont-wild-apples

I nuked all my commercial variety apples at home and put in a trailman and a chestnut crab last spring. In a few years I'll be making these sauces! I did add a "Highlake red fleshed" tree from Perfect Circle Farm in the fall too.

I ordered mine from the website. There weren't many.

Back on topic. This was my Blue Hill order this year. I think one of the pears had a 1" caliper and was 8' tall.

Nope. By the time you fill up the gator bags, the temperature of the water is normalized to whatever is coming out of the tap. If these things killed trees, no one would use them. The water comes out very slowly. I have some I used last spring/summer on two Blue Hill trees I have at home.

I wasn't promising pears in 5 years. 😉 I did find a pear "skeleton" on one of my Blue Hill trees last winter. The tree was only in the ground for 2-3 seasons.

I'd order it for pick up and ask him to ship it with your existing order. You can call too.

Deer love pears. The pear trees I got this year were close to 1" caliper. It was impressive. No excuses, dig more holes. It might stink today, but you will be glad you did it in 5 years.

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Over the weekend, planted 24 fruit trees that were from Blue Hill and Whitetail Crabs. Most of them went in 4 new locations near tree stands, which required chainsaw work by some relatives. I helped plant 40 pine plugs which might be Christmas trees one day. Finally, I did some perpetual tree...