Blue Hill Nursery Stock

Rumors are that places selling evergreen plugs are also sold out for next spring.

After hauling water for two months of drought, I am not anxious to order trees.


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Glad I got 8 from him last year. Only variety I wanted to add was the Sweet Dog. I did get 5 more from NWC but I wasn't planning on any more crabs next year. The bug bit again unfortunately, ;).
 
Terry at NWC, now whitetailcrabs.com, has equally good trees available.
2nd that. I planted 8 from Blue Hill and 10 from NWC this spring (plus 3 the previous spring) and have 5 on order (plus 2 more I’m trying to add) for next spring. All were quality trees. Terry’s especially.
 
Terry at NWC, now whitetailcrabs.com, has equally good trees available.

Agreed.

His are doing great that I’ve planted.


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I only live about 30 minutes from Blue Hill, so that's my main reason for ordering from there over whitetailcrabs. I don't have any crabs currently planted, that lived anyway. I was still able to order a few. Got an October, Chestnut, and Kerr, along with a couple wild crabs to try out a little grafting. After that I'm going to have to wait and see. I'm running out of room haha.
 
I only live about 30 minutes from Blue Hill, so that's my main reason for ordering from there over whitetailcrabs. I don't have any crabs currently planted, that lived anyway. I was still able to order a few. Got an October, Chestnut, and Kerr, along with a couple wild crabs to try out a little grafting. After that I'm going to have to wait and see. I'm running out of room haha
Hey Pat,
If Blue Hill is a half hour from you, then NWC is only another hour...well worth saving the $$ and it's a pretty drive....but I definitely understand that archery opens soon and that daylight is about to be very precious!
 
When I talked to him about a week ago, he said some of the new varieties and most popular were limited like the Big Dog crab only had ~100 in stock and they disappeared in minutes.

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Two months of drought, a heavy fruit load, and then 2-3 hailstorms have limited the amount of scion I will have this year. It seems like Ryan has a few trees planted for his own Big Dog scion source.


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Hey Pat,
If Blue Hill is a half hour from you, then NWC is only another hour...well worth saving the $$ and it's a pretty drive....but I definitely understand that archery opens soon and that daylight is about to be very precious!
Oh that's right. I did look that up before. They're just west of Wilke Barre. Definitely more than an hour but probably not too bad. I'm half an hour South of Blue Hill.
 
Oh that's right. I did look that up before. They're just west of Wilke Barre. Definitely more than an hour but probably not too bad. I'm half an hour South of Blue Hill.
ah gotcha...NWC is very close to Ricketts Glen State park...just past it actually...just call it a deer-tree road-trip haha
 
That’s weird. I drive by there fairly often and never noticed a sign for them.
 
That’s weird. I drive by there fairly often and never noticed a sign for them.
I don't know if there's a sign, but I just followed my GPS and it took me right to the driveway...you can also see lots of trees in a field in the front
 
I didn't get an email notification so I didn't check his website until I went home from work. Probably around 5pm and all the pears were gone. Maybe next year.
 
I grew most of my bench grafts that were on Dolgo seedling rootstock from Blue Hill last year in Root Pouch pots for the summer, because I already had a bunch of used ones on hand. However, I grew the largest rooted ones in blue Walmart bags.

Just like in past years using Dolgo seedling rootstock from a couple other sources, I got nice looking fibrous air-pruned roots in both types of containers. And just like in past years, unlike standard rootstock, the Dolgo seedling roots grew into the seams of the Root Pouch pots and were difficult to pull out. Dolgo seedling roots have never grown into Walmart bags on me and have always been really easy for me to get out.

Because of this, I often have to tip the trees grown on Dolgo seedling rootstock in the Root Pouches upside down, hold onto the trunk with one hand, and pull upward on the stitching around the circumference of the pot’s base to work the trees out of the container. With the Walmart bags, I set the tree next to the hole, tear open the side of the bag, and slide the root system into the hole, disturbing the root system a lot less. On the other hand, the Root Pouches are reusable for a few years and the Walmart bags are shot after a single use.

For the parsimonious among us, any roots that get pruned off the Dolgo seedlings during potting can be put in a Walmart bag along with some potting mix when sweeping the floor to clean up after potting activity. Any clippings that send up shoots can be moved to cutoff clear plastic two-liter pop bottles with drain holes punched in the bottom to grow on their own for the summer. Since they are clear, a person can see which ones need to be moved to larger containers before the roots start circling. After they go dormant in the fall, these little freebie trees can be planted as well and left to grow as pollinators or topworked in some future year.
 
I grew most of my bench grafts that were on Dolgo seedling rootstock from Blue Hill last year in Root Pouch pots for the summer, because I already had a bunch of used ones on hand. However, I grew the largest rooted ones in blue Walmart bags.

Just like in past years using Dolgo seedling rootstock from a couple other sources, I got nice looking fibrous air-pruned roots in both types of containers. And just like in past years, unlike standard rootstock, the Dolgo seedling roots grew into the seams of the Root Pouch pots and were difficult to pull out. Dolgo seedling roots have never grown into Walmart bags on me and have always been really easy for me to get out.

Because of this, I often have to tip the trees grown on Dolgo seedling rootstock in the Root Pouches upside down, hold onto the trunk with one hand, and pull upward on the stitching around the circumference of the pot’s base to work the trees out of the container. With the Walmart bags, I set the tree next to the hole, tear open the side of the bag, and slide the root system into the hole, disturbing the root system a lot less. On the other hand, the Root Pouches are reusable for a few years and the Walmart bags are shot after a single use.

For the parsimonious among us, any roots that get pruned off the Dolgo seedlings during potting can be put in a Walmart bag along with some potting mix when sweeping the floor to clean up after potting activity. Any clippings that send up shoots can be moved to cutoff clear plastic two-liter pop bottles with drain holes punched in the bottom to grow on their own for the summer. Since they are clear, a person can see which ones need to be moved to larger containers before the roots start circling. After they go dormant in the fall, these little freebie trees can be planted as well and left to grow as pollinators or topworked in some future year.

Are those a grower type of bag from Walmart or their grocery type bags?


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Poorsand, thx good tips. Now I gotta remember to find this thread under Blue Hill when plantn season rolls around. Saving the root trimmings and trying to get a few more seedlings is an interesting thought.
 
Sandbur: I'm attaching a photo of the bags I have left over from last year. They were 50 cents each. I sometimes I use a paper stapler on them to reduce their volume, but the half dozen staples in those ones adds to their cost.

Rocks: With the smallest freebies, I dig a hole shortly before the ground freezes to set a cluster of the plastic pop bottles in the ground for the winter. After the ground has thawed the following spring, the pop bottles pull out of the wet ground quite easily and get repotted in larger containers for their second summer.

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Sandbur: I'm attaching a photo of the bags I have left over from last year. They were 50 cents each. I sometimes I use a paper stapler on them to reduce their volume, but the half dozen staples in those ones adds to their cost.

Rocks: With the smallest freebies, I dig a hole shortly before the ground freezes to set a cluster of the plastic pop bottles in the ground for the winter. After the ground has thawed the following spring, the pop bottles pull out of the wet ground quite easily and get repotted in larger containers for their second summer.

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Now you got me thinking. Fill these with dirt, bury in the garden, and then plant apple seeds in them.

If they would last for 17 months in the ground, it would be a great way to transplant seedlings.


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Here are photos of some of last year's Dolgo seedlings from Blue Hill after grafting other varieties onto them and growing them in containers.
 

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