Chummer,
I never even heard of red spruce before. I've only planted white spruce purchased from the spring DEC sale.
Saw this online how to ID what kind of spruce you got.
Spruce trees are robust evergreen trees that grow in cooler climates and are often used as Christmas trees during the holiday season. There are about 40 species of spruce trees worldwide, with several including the Colorado Spruce and the...
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Anxious to see if my fir trees I ripped up and planted alongside stillwater rd to blind out a small plot survived. We had that febuary -35 deg cold snap. There was mayb 6 inches of snow up there at the time.
Was going to ask you what apple tree varieties you prefer. I panted some whitetail crabs 30-06 and droptine on anty rootstock. I grafted a bunch of kerr, some signal fire, redfield, and all winter hangover. They're in my nursery for this year, maybe next. Got some coffee stirrer thick dolgo and transcendent crabapple seedling from willis orchards in my nursery too. will graft about 1/2 of them, the other will leave ungrafted.
Wanted to try some noza-ezgrow up there. Was debating grafting some franklin cider and putting it up there. They say zone 4, but franklin VT is like 30 miles from the Canada border. Could see it working up by old forge ways.