Bowsnbucks
5 year old buck +
I was just mowing around all our apples and crabs at camp Tuesday and Wednesday this week, and I sprayed for bugs while there. We have good crops on some of our Liberty, Enterprise, Goldrush, Kerr, Ark. Black, Crimson Topaz, Winter Wildlife crab, Centurion crab, Dolgo crabs, Centennial crab, and the one wild apple seedling from SLN. The SLN seedling has a batch of green apples (green so far) on it the size of golf balls. Tree has good shape and good crotch angles. One Kieffer pear was loaded to the point of limbs bending down low, so I pulled a bunch of them off to avoid breakage or an easy lure for bears to rip the tree apart. It's more upright now. I pulled many apples to give more energy to the trees for growth. Our older trees are loaded this year too. The late-hanging green apple tree is polluted with apples. This is the one that some of you guys got scions from. A couple of our 20 yr. old crabs are hanging full too. Fruit is about 1 1/2" in dia. and greenish with red blush.
Our 2 Franklins are doing well - no fruit yet. The one is going crazy for 3rd leaf. It's about 7 ft. tall from a small whip of about 20" at planting !! The other is not far behind at 5 ft. No disease on either.
The Japs are out in force and have chomped the leaves on parts of trees. Some sort of caterpillars are laying siege to some of the trees. They're in large groups so they were easy to spray with Sevin and many started dropping dead right away. I even got the high ones - my pump sprayer will shoot a stream 15ft. up from the ground, so being higher gave the caterpillars no refuge !!
That's what's going on at our camp in the mountains.
Our 2 Franklins are doing well - no fruit yet. The one is going crazy for 3rd leaf. It's about 7 ft. tall from a small whip of about 20" at planting !! The other is not far behind at 5 ft. No disease on either.
The Japs are out in force and have chomped the leaves on parts of trees. Some sort of caterpillars are laying siege to some of the trees. They're in large groups so they were easy to spray with Sevin and many started dropping dead right away. I even got the high ones - my pump sprayer will shoot a stream 15ft. up from the ground, so being higher gave the caterpillars no refuge !!
That's what's going on at our camp in the mountains.