Is the crab disease resistant? I have 2 keiffers that are planted in that area. Although they are "resistant" to fireblight, I want to make sure that whatever I put around them is resistant as well.
2015 Scion or other seed Swap Thread
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buckvelvet
5 year old buck +
Chesnut Crab is resistant to Chernobyl. :)
Seriously you folks on here are a great bunch of people. I'm really glad I came here last April.
Seriously you folks on here are a great bunch of people. I'm really glad I came here last April.
I meant his late dropping crab.
I'm just wondering if I should save doing crabs for my ground with a lot more sand.
buckvelvet
5 year old buck +
Sandy ground is more to do with rootstock then what type of apple your growing. Unless I have swung and missed your meaning, which reminds me that I'm left handed and most people can't read my hand writing, so it's been done before.
Nope! You understood it correctly. I know that rootstock has a lot to do with it, but I also was under the impression that crabs in general were more tolerant of adverse conditions. I'm not sure if that is due to the roots they are on.Sandy ground is more to do with rootstock then what type of apple your growing. Unless I have swung and missed your meaning, which reminds me that I'm left handed and most people can't read my hand writing, so it's been done before.
buckvelvet
5 year old buck +
With enough water and nutrients, a normal apple on a good rootstock does just fine on sand. If I'm not mistaken most apples prefer a sandy loam to begin with.
Pa
When are you going up to get your rootstock? Also when do you want to meet up?
ul,
When are you going up to get your rootstock? Also when do you want to meet up?
sandbur
5 year old buck +
I have not had any disease problems with it.
This apple is very hard and not really what I would consider edible for people.
aerospacefarmer
5 year old buck +
Ok cool. I will mail hours tomorrow Art
aerospacefarmer
5 year old buck +
Spur
My rootstocks are coming about the middle of March according to Tino at Cummins. I will email him tomorrow to confirm. I will be at my place a couple of days next week and will stay 2 nights if you want to drop over to get some scion wood
Paul
Sandy loam would be a stretch for this stuff. I'd almost certainly need to use lumite, rather than my usual inch or two of manure+leaves and then few inches of wood chips. I'll feel a lot better trying them out when I have my own rootstocks and I get to have fun grafting!
I'm fine with it not being a human apple, as I'll now have (if all goes well with grafting the DR varieties) 7 trees with Liberty, Enterprise, Freedom, and Goldrush. I'm thinking that the goldrush will be hanging real late for the deer.
As for the crab, is it a later bloomer? Since most of these other trees are later blooming and Chestnut is better for early to mid, the late hanging/dropper may be a better fit. I'll get back to you on which I want!
I'm going to get mine next weekend. I can pick them up for you and save you the shipping costs.
I can stop by this week or next if I pick up your rootstock. Let me know.
aerospacefarmer
5 year old buck +
I am picking mine up next week also. I have to go that way anyway for another matter. You can come get scion anytime next week when i am there. Probably Monday or Tuesday evening through Wednesday mid afternoon
WTNUT
5 year old buck +
I have good news and bad news with regard to my offer for scions. The good news first - all of my trees have been pruned. In fact, my farm hand pruned all of them. The bad news, he pruned them about three weeks ago and burned all of the pruned wood. Therefore, I don't have much to offer as previously thought.
WTNUT
5 year old buck +
Ha ha. I actually did not know he was going to prune them. He has helped me in the past, and wanted to surprise me and show me he could do it all on his own. Well he surprised me for sure.
