An Unpleasant Surprise
- Thread starter greyphase
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Bowsnbucks
5 year old buck +
Sorry to see that Grey. It's a bummer when you have one growing well & it croaks from one thing or another. I don't think you'll be running low on trees though !!
trampledbyturtles
5 year old buck +
That's a punch in the gut, looks like he was pushing some good growth.
SmallChunk
5 year old buck +
I'm wondering about that too. Are we supposed to be checking our trees regularly for them?
Turkey Creek
5 year old buck +
What root stock? I have heard that some of the Geneva series have issues, and really should be staked for life.
Prof.Kent
5 year old buck +
I suppose we are!
greyphase
5 year old buck +
G202 rootstock. I have 12-15 more trees on this rootstock that are 4 years old. Fingers crossed that this was just a freak mishap.
Turkey Creek
5 year old buck +
I would personally try to stake those trees. Not convenient but better than losing a tree.
Apple Junkie
5 year old buck +
Geez... I never heard of anything like that happening untill now. Sorry about that grey. We have such high hopes for our trees, so it's a bitch when we loose one, no matter what the cause. I especially regrete you loosing a tree because you're so good at reporting how they are doing. I don't think it would hurt to make Cummins aware of what happened here, for everyones benefit. I'm not sure they will replace it, but it is useful information for them to have too.
chickenlittle
5 year old buck +
I have quite a few young trees on G222 which is about the same size as G202 per the chart. I lost one to ambrosia beetle borers this spring. The rest of my G222 are ok but relatively slow growers. I think I only have one staked, a Wickson I got from Cummins that wanted to lean. G222 does sucker quite a bit so I would not use more of it. I also have a Redfree on G30 and Williams Pride on G890. Both have been good bearers, trees I bought from Cummins. Both are much beefier than the same age G222 trees. Both are staked and have produced good crops from the 2nd year in the ground.
For my own grafting, I'll probably use a few more G.890. It is listed as the largest Geneva and available from Cummins. Not much apple grafting in my near future.
For my own grafting, I'll probably use a few more G.890. It is listed as the largest Geneva and available from Cummins. Not much apple grafting in my near future.
chummer
5 year old buck +
I had a macintosh due that from an apple borer. Same size tree as yours but it had begun to die, the leaves had started to shrivel. I couldn’t figure out what was wrong with it until a wind storm broke it off and I could see where the borer was in the tree. It was only a couple weeks after I noticed the tree was in trouble.
Diesel5610
5 year old buck +
I bought a half dozen Golden Hornets on MM111 from Wafler Nursery last year. Someone there said they were not great wildlife trees and the grafts would be "brittle". I wasn't quite sure what that meant. One of the other guys who bought the same trees posted that here, I will have to look for the thread. Is it something with the GH crabapple? Trees I have are hardly putting on any new growth and are still not much more than a well leafed 3 foot whip, hoping they turn into something useful. Whatever the cause for your tree there is nothing worse than getting several years into a tree to have something go wrong.
