Search results

  1. cavey

    Next spring, bare rooting acorn grown Oaks - should I top them.

    Im going to lift a handful of acorn grown Burr Oaks from a bed this spring and I got thinking. Does anyone top there transplanted oaks ... I have gotten the bulk of my oaks topped from state nurseries - assuming for shipping/storage space reasons but,,,,, anyone have any thought on topping them...
  2. cavey

    Coralberry (Buck Brush), anyone growing these shrubs for deer browse....

    I have some potted/heelded into my nursery that I should have moved out this spring. Bought some three years ago to try and have yet to move them out to the field. Just curious if anyone has planted this variety.
  3. cavey

    Another must have tool to add to the list - Drip Torch

    Over the years here I have added a number of must have tools to spend money on to my habitat/apple/land passions. After another series of spring burns on my land a drip torch is a tool Im adding to the list. Its not a new tool to me at work just that now I own one for myself and would honestly...
  4. cavey

    Wild apples and crabs

    Now is the time to be looking for those wild apple and crab trees you didnt know you had - up here in northwest Wisconsin anyways. Their coming into blossom and I always carry ribbon to mark trees I find. I also snap pics and geo locate trees I see in blossom. I try and keep track of a few to...
  5. cavey

    The addiction is real... My name is Rich, Im a fruit tree hoarder

    Well I finally did a rough list of my apple and crab trees apart from 10+ish varieties I planted first that I lost my map to years ago. I had over 124 varieties of sorts on the list tonight. Some are wild apples *, some are old farmstead apple trees, some have typos on the tag **, and some...
  6. cavey

    Rootstocks

    Just a cut and paste article on rootstocks - history https://extension.psu.edu/apple-rootstocks-capabilities-and-limitations thought it was interesting
  7. cavey

    Well was my new $$ Tina fixed blade worth the price?..........

    No..... (Well was my new $$ Tina fixed blade worth the price?)... No...no... no.... I had high hopes that my buy was a good one, and maybe once I grind it down it will be ......... BUT, as a whole my feed back on the Tine is less than stellar. My cheaper - almost free Antonini grafting knives...
  8. cavey

    Piggy back grafting .....

    This is a different way - never seen this before but makes some sense .....
  9. cavey

    Mother of all knife strops

    Finally got around to making my new knife sharpening strops (strop boards) with a few improvements over the last ones. I can pull large kitchen knives across these with full reach pulls. 4" by about 24"'s of dual sided smooth and suede leather.. I put jeweler's rouge on one side of each and...
  10. cavey

    Tip of the day - hog ring pliers and chicken wire

    Just wanted to pass this on, Its not much of a tip but it saved me a ton of time once I realized I needed one. I had a little rabbit visitor into my nursery out at the farm... Mr. bunny, now that we have snow, was able to hop over my 2' chicken wire. The original wire with time and my...
  11. cavey

    Anyone get their GRIN Scion order...

    Mine just showed up.... seems a bit early - but its here. Long sticks too many just over a foot long. 3 months till my rootstock shows up. Neverblight Professor Sprenger Yellow Newtown Tolman Sweet Vista Bella Bessemianka Michurina Fuji Red Sport type 2 Tydeman Red (cooper) Winter Banana Kerr...
  12. cavey

    Fixed blade grafting knife

    Well I went and did it.. bought a fixed blade Tina for bench grafting. 90% of what I graft is whip and tongue done in my garage and the folder makes me nervous. I was going to take an old fixed blade knife and grind it down but I had some extra rewards cash in my prime account - that seemed...
  13. cavey

    Electric hand pruning shears - just when I thought I'd seen it all

    For those who want one of everything ... This is not an endorsement - just saw it and thought wow.... https://rhapsodys.vip/products/electric-branch-scissors?fbclid=IwAR1VK36LuumU0SaAdoa8y7eH8mRguAxhYfFTdEt-cxfsX0Aq1zLftlLa9Hc
  14. cavey

    Merry Christmas All

    Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
  15. cavey

    Grafting with a cordless drill.............. see something new every day, ya do.............

    This is something I have never seen before, looks a bit time consuming but its an interesting way to graft for sure.
  16. cavey

    Aluminum window screen cutting tip

    Others may already be doing something like this but this has worked great saving me a ton of time cutting the same sized screens for trunk protection. Box cutter, and a board and some duct tape is about it. Different size board for diff width screen cuttings. Just wrap the screen, I used small...
  17. cavey

    Another fine reason to keep your apple trees fenced for as long as you can............ buck rubs

    Another fine reason to keep your apple trees fenced for as long as you can............ buck rubs I was out checking /planting some trees and looked over to see this nice bright patch on one of my nicer apple trees... I had figured with the lower branches and the t post by the tree and that it...
  18. cavey

    Bartlett Pear

    Is anyone, especially up north - planting or has Bartlett pears. I am going to put in an order for root stock and was thinking of additionally trying a bundle of 50 Bartlett pear root stocks, eventually graft out most but try and grow a handful out from the root stock. Just curios what you may...
  19. cavey

    Apple Rootstocks and Interstem Combinations

    Have any of you heard of this or done it. Scion grafted to dwarfing rootstock grafted to say antonovka rootstock. You graft your scion variety to a dwarfing rootstock to control size and vigor maybe earlier fruit bearing ( these graft unions above ground as well as the final union) but then...
  20. cavey

    Im hoping this is a great wild apple find....

    Fingers crossed that this is a pretty cool wild apple find. A buddy told me about a tree he thinks is just an old wild apple tree way back at the end of his property deep in some pines that used to be at the edge of an old field/pasture. The tree is pretty wild looking and just a multi trunk...
Top