I’m ordering a hundred plus late apples from Blue Hill. Last year he had only pears left when I called in late December. Ryan’s pear trees liked it here for their first summer. Pear tree growth exceeded my expectations so far but late dropping apples are what I’m after.
Ryan is selling trees he grafted from my Turning Point Tree Last year. It is a super performing tree here showing resistance to all Apple tree diseases. There are probably five or so special wild trees here out of the 3,000 growing on the property and Turning Point is the most important tree to this property. Hopefully it will perform in other properties as it does here. And while I am planting two hundred plus Turning Point trees next spring I still ordered the hundred plus late dropping apple trees from Ryan at Blue Hills Nursery to add to the diversity of the already huge variety of apples growing here.
note -that is resistant is all apple tree diseases present here, Turning Point has not been tested with all apple diseases in the world as likely not all are present here. Two that are surely present here are cedar apple rust and fire blight. TP takes on a few very, very minor cedar rust spots but not enough to damage the leaves and affect its production. On the fire blight it has never to date shown any signs of it in the thirty plus years I have owned the property.
