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    Rootstock

    You can do a couple different things: If they are large trees, you can bed them in wet sawdust/ straw, even dirt and put them along the northside of a building in shade. You can cold store them in your garage - i would bed them in damp news paper/ shredded damp paper or better yet damp...
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    Pear tree help

    Like mentioned above, look for a graft union, thats the one you want.... but like native hunter said looks like a bunch of sprouts from a die off; - Ive seen sprouts overtake the original grafted tree so spend some time looking close for a union its not always the biggest one. If you knew...
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    Potted trees in freezing temps?

    They should be fine, it is cycles of freeze thawing and dry roots that are issues, that being said for future notes it is less than ideal not to have heeled them in and not a good practice. Freezing is not the issue otherwise we would have no trees at all. IMO subjecting them to cycles of...
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    Holes in my apple tree

    If its a small orchard or the sap sucker has a favorite tree - try a plastic decoy hawk or owl -- stick it on a post/rod near the tree. Then move it around occasionally - might help.
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    2014 Grafting Adventures of CrazyED

    Ive gone to doing the first wrap with plastic marking ribbon then go over that with reversed electrical tape - I used to just use electrical tape but had the bark lift off with the adhesive to many times; Then tried the slit the tape but got burned a few times cutting to deep - the stretched...
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    Rootstock

    Its just better economically to buy a bundle of 50 from say willamette nursery, bite the bullet, plant the excess for grafting next year, or ask around chances are someone on here lives nearby and would take/ buy the excess plants. Or do what the rest of us have done - get hooked and graft...
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    Grafting temp effects?

    Its the same for me with regular - unplanted/shipped root stock and dormant scion, I like to sweat the root stock - get it to break dormancy and then graft dormant scion onto it, park it back in "cool" storage to rest and heal for a week or so in damp sawdust, then pot out or direct plant.
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    Grafting rootstock vs. bareroot

    Yes the tap root almost certainly always gets cut - ripped off. Tap roots to my limited knowledge can very but 4-7 foot Im guessing is common if not more maybe. It would in most cases be all but impossible to capture all the root system of a tree with even a machine, When I transplant fruit...
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    Grafting rootstock vs. bareroot

    Thats the mystery ... you would have to dig one up to check and its pretty rare for me to re-dig my trees once they are in their final spots. I heel mine in in 16" deep pots with open bottoms and have found that the root stocks do seem to shoot down what seems to be a tap root or two. I have to...
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    Nursing in pots before transplant

    They can go for years,..... especially if the bottoms of the pots have openings for deeper roots to push out and down. I was planting my grafted trees into pots, putting them in racks and babied them till fall, heel them in for winter. After that I pulled them when I had a spot or liked how...
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    What to do with an oak savannah?

    Ya I could use about 5 acres of those trees, I have a nice spot just waiting... But up on one of my ridges there is pocket of white oaks that look like that, I love sitting up in those trees
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    Fruit trees Minnesota ,, Wisconsin areas

    The only mention of bud swell I heard/saw was a local who taps trees and they said they were not going to tap because they had bud swell.... I have no idea if they even know what they are talking about. But.... i can tell you sap has been running with good sugar content and the trees have to be...
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    Best apple I have ever eaten

    I have found that anything cross bred with a braeburn makes a pretty good apple
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    Best apple I have ever eaten

    Zestar is a good one too
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    Best apple I have ever eaten

    I just did the test envy and cosmic crunch .... Both are great apples, cosmic crunch is sweet and juicy but in the end and I went back and forth between the two comparing each and in the end Im going with envy . But cosmic crunch is right there running in the top 5
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