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[hunts_with_stick]

Does anyone have a good apple sauce recipe that’s easy? We made a lot of cider that we froze and a bunch of hard cider. My boys love applesauce so that would be good too.

 

[BuckSnort]

Four foot tall neglected seedling that holds fruit late. I don’t see any scion there for this year.

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My trees are all young yet. But as I continue to plant more & more, I can see how easily it will be for them to get neglected….

 

[Mortenson]

My trees are all young yet. But as I continue to plant more & more, I can see how easily it will be for them to get neglected….

Yeah I can see that also. Just keep up with the big steps required for survival at least. Keep them window screened and caged. If you miss pruning, fertilizing, or weeding for a year or two it's less critical than those biggies.

 

[sandbur]

Does anyone have a good apple sauce recipe that’s easy? We made a lot of cider that we froze and a bunch of hard cider. My boys love applesauce so that would be good too.

I use mainly crab apples in sauce. Rinse and pull off stems. Cook with a bit of water and then run them through a food mill or some call it a Foley food processor.

I don’t cut up crab apples at all. If I add bigger apples, I cut them up.


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[Wind Gypsy]

The corn was behind me in the first picture.


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Corn and late hanging apples inside conifer screening.. Looks like winter deer heaven!

 

[sandbur]

Corn and late hanging apples inside conifer screening.. Looks like winter deer heaven!

The 30 acre field on the left is alfalfa. They are still digging for it just a bit.


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[sandbur]

There is lots of deer sign on the other end of the corn plot. The apples on the left are mostly early and mid season droppers. There is one Yellow Dog and one Big Dog that are just beginning to fruit.


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[sandbur]

The Courthouse Crab is still holding fruit. My tree is in about second or third leaf and no fruit yet.


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[sandbur]

The rootstock of the flowering crab next to it isn’t too shabby either. This fruit is slightly larger than a grafted dolgo. Probably an inch or so.

There is just tiny scion on both trees. Hard to reach besides.


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[Bowsnbucks]

The rootstock of the flowering crab next to it isn’t too shabby either. This fruit is slightly larger than a grafted dolgo. Probably an inch or so.

There is just tiny scion on both trees. Hard to reach besides.


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If you can get permission, cut a lower, horizontal limb in half. That limb should push vertical water sprouts this next summer that'll make good scion for grafting. I did that with trees here and they produced lots of water sprouts that were nice and straight.

 

[PoorSand]

Did you have an untimely 2021 spring frost in your area that wiped out the people apple crop but yet the crabs with an extended blossoming period bore? That's what I saw around here last year.

 

[sandbur]

Did you have an untimely 2021 spring frost in your area that wiped out the people apple crop but yet the crabs with an extended blossoming period bore? That's what I saw around here last year.

I had a pretty decent apple crop and can’t say that happened. A few trees rested.


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[PoorSand]

Thank you for the information.

 

[4wanderingeyes]

Thank you for the information.

For the most part my trees all took a break this year. Just a few with a small crop.

 

[sandbur]

For the most part my trees all took a break this year. Just a few with a small crop.

With good weather, you will have a bumper crop this summer.


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[sandbur]

A doe and two fawns were scrounging for crabs under the tree I call Yellow Dog. Not a crab was on the ground but quite a few on the tree, yet.

A long pole could put a bunch on the ground!


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[sandbur]

Buckman Crab had a lot of tracks around the tree. There were crabs on the ground when I left!


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[sandbur]

There was a bit over an acre of corn Outback by the apple trees. Not a kernel is left.


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[rocksnstumps]

EMS crab (a siberian crab seedling) still getting checked out. Fruit smaller than your buckman, about size of the courthouse one above. Another Siberian crab is also holding some nickel sized fruit and has some tracks but apple trees next to food plots are more popular. Food plot is grassy clover on this end but have noted that any grass with some green left is also dug for probably just a change from the shrubby browse nearby.

 

[rocksnstumps]

Does the courthouse crab have white flowers in the spring? If it does bet is a siberian crab seedling or has that in its parent pool.