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These 2 beautiful trees are fairly young in my orchard. I grafted them in 2017 from a local tree I’ve been scouting for years. They are the only apples that remain in my mostly mature 18 tree orchard. They are on b118 roots. Raccoon pressure is crazy. All my other trees are picked cleaned and...

I was up at the farm this weekend to check out the apple trees. Trees were in full bloom. Also noticed a few things on a couple of them. My Wickson on m111 seems to be way behind my other trees waking up every year. And my Arkansas Black must be the Arkansas Black spur variety.

Wolf river planted 2010 on Antonovka.

I Have a feeling I will never be able to sample any of my great tasting apples in our setting with all the pressure from Coons birds etc. I had an bumper crop on 2 of the 11 year old Cortlands that were cleaned completely off in a week in mid July. We Had 15 trees out 19 with pretty great fruit...

I was up at the farm on Friday and Saturday. I was super excited to see the rewards for all the hard work. My 2015 liberty, 2017 chestnut crab. A local crab I grafted 2 years ago. A Honeygold 2016. And a 2015 enterprise. All on b.118. I couldn’t be happier! I have 3 older trees on standard...

We started our orchard/ foot plot in 2010. South west Wisconsin. This was an old 4 acre sheep pasture with all ash trees that we took out out the past 10 years.

I was up at the farm today to plant a few crabs and noticed most trees were still at silver tip but extremely swollen and only a few trees at 1/8 maybe 1/4 green tip. Furthest along was liberty and Chestnut crab. Below is a pic of my liberty tree last year on the same date. 2017.

Wish I would have started my orchard with a few Liberty’s. This tree has been nothing but awesome for me as a low maintenance deer Apple. They taste incredible also.

I’ve had a few apple here and there from these trees. Hopefully this year will be the year for a nice crop. Looking forward to seeing the trees change shape from a good fruit load. These pictures were taken before I pruned this winter.