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We need Turkey to dabble in a few more of these exotics! I think he sold a few of Bur's dog crabs a while back, but haven't seen any lately.
If Sandbur started a nursery he would sell out in a couple hours too haha
We need Turkey to dabble in a few more of these exotics! I think he sold a few of Bur's dog crabs a while back, but haven't seen any lately.
https://www.nativnurseries.com/ has 2-3 foot Oak and Fruit seedlings geared toward deer. I have some of their "wild deer pear" but they have only been in the ground 2-3 years . Mine are in tree tubes and have really shot up this year , easily at 9-10 foot tall. At $5.89 per seedling can't hurt to try a few when we get shut out from places like Blue Hill, and NWC that sell out within in hours of going on saleI picked the wrong week to go on vacation. The interesting ones were gone when I got back. My question is - is anyone else doing what Blue Hill is doing, with all the wild trees being grafted and geared toward deer? Seems he really goes after those wild pears and crabs. I know NWC and St. Lawrence do to maybe a lesser extent. What else is out there?
If things work out and I live long enough, I am doing a red stemmed dolgo seedling rootstock trial with Ryan’s help. I have prepared room for about 40 of these red stemmed rootstocks. I wish I had room for 200 of these, but I am really out of room for many more apple trees.
I want to see what type of fruit they will grow and check on their disease resistance. CAR is a major problem here, and dolgo seedlings are all over the board on CAR resistance. I might even try adding a few of these to a flowering crab to see what kind of fruit they get in less years time.
It would be great to find a red fleshed dolgo of a larger size for cider that is disease free. Wishful thinking, but this is my form of gambling. These root stocks might all end up like a red splendor flowering crab for all I know. If so, these could be top worked or just left as is for partridge (grouse), cedar waxwings, and turkeys.
Ryan might have a few extra of these if the red stemmed dolgo trend continues.
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I planted 10 Persimmon the first year I owned the property next door (this will be their 5th summer), I am down to 6 now and the buds are swelling on those now. I lost 2 the year before last when we got a really hard early frost in late September and the other 2 didn't leaf out in the spring for whatever reason. I don't remember the source of those Persimmon off the top of my head, I think Pike's Peak Nursery in Pa and I don't believe they were grafted, these were my first BH trees.you had any success with persimmons this far north? Or is this the first go round?
What was the size of the persimmon that you had ordered?These are the Persimmon roots from BH, yes I pre-dug the holes before I opened the box and sealed it back up and re-dug the holes because I wasn’t expecting that much root mass.
I got 5 Persimmon and 6 Pears in the ground from Blue Hill last Friday, the Pears were roughly half the root mass of the Persimmon.
Expecting 10” of snow here tomorrow, glad I didn’t wait to plant lol
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I got the 4-6' trees, they were all around 5 feet tall. I have tried to order several times in the past and had trees disappear from my cart at checkout so I never got an order in. I emailed Ryan and he made my (and others with a similar problem) order before sales went public so it wouldn't happen again.What was the size of the persimmon that you had ordered?
I ordered 20 of the 1-2' footers because that is all that was left.