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some trees are just consistently tastier than others.... this happens a lot. I have a couple plum trees that just get hit hard while apple trees right next to them never get hit. If its a young tree I just hand spray it with Beyer 3 in 1 insect and disease control this year I have to...

it also depends on the size of the tree your grafting too, everyone has a preferred method they have more or less success with... comes down to proper technique and timing top working larger trees with cleft grafts or modified cleft graft/bark grafting; smaller younger trees I prefer "whip...

I hear ya, I want my garden back - the nursery took over. I will still try and do some wildlife shrubs and cuttings but apart from that I only want to do a tree or two here and there; I am appled out.... Time to focus on my pruning skills.

ps.... I grabbed two rolls - should be about the end of it for me

I concur, been through the gauntlet of snow fence, barbed wire, welded wire and other crap, ... the best has always been remesh

5 foot remesh x 150' on sale 106.79 with mail - in rebate at Menards right now, as much as it pains me and how I like mazel brand more I may buy at least 1 roll

Webbed tow strap around the tree, you could even pad that; a winch from a four wheeler would even work if you tied off the wheeler to a tree - rope with some mechanical advantage rigged in depends on how wet the soil is and how easily it pulls back over. I always shoot for 30% max when...

Its no big deal, just change out and add a larger window screen in time ... same with the wire -- unless you dont care about lower branches the tree will quickly out grow that; but they are right that is not going to be enough window screen in diameter.. no matter what you do dont forget to go...

Hopefully your Bartlett seedling pear experience goes better than mine I tried something like 50, bench grafted them , potted them out grew them at home, heeled them in for winter all looked great. Next spring they all appeared dead, and stayed that way. I see I have about 6 that have comeback...

H2Ofwler, you cured me from ever ordering from them. My spring is going to be pretty set; like many here that over the years have saturated themselves with grafting projects that have left me with a whole lot of trees in the nursery that need to be transplanted. I HAVE to get off my @$$ and...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...