I guess I will find out this spring how bad the winter kill was on my trees. I have a few that were pushing the lower limits of my zone 3b, which I expect to not make this winter. In my area, we didnt have much snow cover when we were getting -35 for a few nights. I think the lowest I saw was -39, but at that point we ended up with about 18 inches on the ground when that came. We will see, I am hoping it wont be a complete kill off. As of right now, I have about 30+ inches on the ground, with more coming tomorrow. The 10 day forecast has 6 days below zero, with 4 of them double digits, and one at -20. This crap has to break soon I hope!
Maybe I should just be growing trees from Red Delicious seeds for the deer. I gave a guy ten such seedlings eighteen years ago and he planted them in current zone 3b. Eight of the ten were still live this fall and all bore heavily. He had six winters there with lows of -35 to -39 since planting them.
Beautiful weather for ridding today.Chummer - St. Lawrence Nursery has Chestnut crabs on Antonovka rootstocks. Antonovka is an extremely winter-hardy rootstock from Russia. If you really want to have a chestnut crab, maybe give SLN's a try ?? Just a thought, FWIW.
My one son is up there in your neighborhood as I type this riding snowmobiles around Salmon R. / Tug Hill area with a bunch of college pals.
Maybe I should just be growing trees from Red Delicious seeds for the deer. I gave a guy ten such seedlings eighteen years ago and he planted them in current zone 3b. Eight of the ten were still live this fall and all bore heavily. He had six winters there with lows of -35 to -39 since planting them.
My goal this spring is to graft out a bunch of locally sourced wild seedlings that are late hangers that have fruit still hanging for a late winter food source... Many are crab sized, some are apple sized. The hope is that they have proven themselves by growing on their own. The problem is the cold spell and the horribly deep snows. I have located a bunch just have to figure out how to get to them.
Beautiful weather for ridding today.Chummer - St. Lawrence Nursery has Chestnut crabs on Antonovka rootstocks. Antonovka is an extremely winter-hardy rootstock from Russia. If you really want to have a chestnut crab, maybe give SLN's a try ?? Just a thought, FWIW.
My one son is up there in your neighborhood as I type this riding snowmobiles around Salmon R. / Tug Hill area with a bunch of college pals.
The ones that failed were on B.118. I ordered a couple from SLN last year and they came very smal like a pencil. I may have planted them at camp or they may be in a root trapper bag in my garden. Not sure which ones went where. Either way they will be planted this spring if they are not already.