Thanks Bowsnbucks, it was just dumb luck that the one wild apple tree of the two thousand plus here that ended up with genes to produce late hanging apples is growing in view of our sunroom. For some reason this fall I finally SAW what has been before me for years. It was then that I decided that a property full of that tree and others like it could be grown here in fairly short order. Remembering from the old QDMA site that a lot of apple guys had congregated on this forum I came here hoping to learn about growing apple trees and have not been disappointed.
Here I heard about Blue Hill Wildlife Nursery and others that were specializing in apple trees for deer hunters. Since Blue Hill was the closest to me I told him about our special tree we call Turning Point. He asked a lot of questions and wanted to see all past and present pictures I had of the tree. He was quite excited by the pictures and the disease resistance the tree has shown especially its resistance to CAR which is on all of the cedars here. And that the tree annually sees actual temperatures to minus twenty- five and has seen minus thirty- five actual temperature was just icing on the cake. Ryan told me how rare the tree is and I told him I knew. I have walked property after property in this area checking hundreds and hundreds of trees and zero holds like old Turning Point.
Ryan’s knowledge and passion for making great deer trees came thru in every conversation we had. Ryan offered to graft some Turning Point trees for me. I accepted and offered him all of the scions he could use to create more Turning Point trees to sell throughout the deer world. He accepted my offer and though the amount of good scions I can get off the tree this year for him is limited he will be adding grafted Turning Point trees to his catalog this fall. Ryan is confident that trimming the scions off this year and by adding a little fertilizer the tree will produce many more scions next year. We are living in a great time where a good number of young wildlife enthusiasts have taken the path of running nurseries specializing in growing trees for deer and that they can take scions from the few unknown special trees out there and make them available to all of us.