Ide’s of March Apple Variety Profile

PoorSand

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Last spring, fellow Habitat Talk member Oaknut sent scions from the Ide’s of March tree to several other of us members. It would be nice if the members’ observations would be consolidated into this thread so we can collectively figure out the potential and limitations of this variety. I have attached a summary of what is known to the tree owner so far. Members must be logged in to view the summary. Non-members are SOL on viewing it unless they join.

(Oaknut gets all the credit. I simply consolidated the notes and am now posting them with his go-ahead to do so.)
 

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My hat is off to all the citizen scientists like yourselves who do this important research and documentation. Thanks. Obviously, I hope you keep us posted.
 
I can't open it. Is it a problem on my end?
 
That is a very nice looking tree and a nice clean looking apple
 
Great information !


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If Oaknut's tree gets denuded from scion requests and dies, we can probably rely on the clonal germplasm repositories (A/K/A orchards) that Habitat Talk members have been creating on their properties.
 
If Oaknut's tree gets denuded from scion requests and dies, we can probably rely on the clonal germplasm repositories (A/K/A orchards) that Habitat Talk members have been creating on their properties.
Sure hope that doesn’t happen...
 
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I had one graft take, hopefully it makes it through its first winter.
 
Awesome, I'd love to get a scion this year if any are available. I've got a highly disease resistant late hanging roadside apple for folks to try. (And a ton of other varieties.)
 
I'll have it on my list of scions available when this year's scion exchange thread gets going. I watered and fertilized the heck out of the ones I benchgrafted last spring and grew in pots with fluffy mix for the summer. When I fall dormant planted them, I noticed that one of the whips was sticking out above the six foot tall cage I put around it. Since I won't be watering it this summer and it has only a two-gallon root system, I plan to head back the top couple/few feet of it next month.

It will be interesting to me to read comments on how this variety reacts to different growing environments and exposure to diseases.
 
I had one of the two scions I received take off great this summer.

Grafted to M111 it is maybe 3' tall whip and will go out to the new orchard this spring. Very cool tree to be trying out!
 
I can't open it. Is it a problem on my end?
It's a pdf. Do you have Adobe Reader? If not I think you can download it for free.
 
I'd forgotten that I had taken these CAR photos in late July last year. They are of representative lower leaves of Enterprise, Liberty, Kerr, Florina, Galarina, Ide's of March, and GoldRush growing in pots pushed together. All but the GoldRush had quickly outgrown the CAR affected leaves. The GoldRush took a little longer, but it had outgrown it too.

I understand that somebody else's Ide's of March benchgrafts had an amount of CAR similar to what his Yates got, and both the Ide's of March and Yates outgrew it. I don't have Yates, but that provides another data point for anybody that does.
 

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I'd forgotten that I had taken these CAR photos in late July last year. They are of representative lower leaves of Enterprise, Liberty, Kerr, Florina, Galarina, Ide's of March, and GoldRush growing in pots pushed together. All but the GoldRush had quickly outgrown the CAR affected leaves. The GoldRush took a little longer, but it had outgrown it too.

I think that it’s a really enlightening to see how each apple variety responds to the same level of exposure to CAR spores in the air. When compared side by side like that, you can the relative resistance of each. Thanks for passing these pics along Poor Sand.
 
For those of you interested in Ide’s of March (IoM), I have something to share that is of concern. I have been in contact with several forum members who I sent scion to last season, and one of them indicates that one of his three IoM bench grafts apparently had Fireblight, as evidenced by the characteristic shepherds crook die-back. He mentioned that IoM were his most vigorous grafts, growing to 5’ that first season, in Miracle Grow potting mix, and suggested that the exceptional vigor may have increased that tree’s susceptibility to FB. He also indicated that he snapped off the impacted shoot and that tree did fine thereafter.

So this morning I took a close look at my IoM seedling tree and my top & bench grafts, all of them look clean and healthy, and I see no evidence of FB.

I have little experience with FB, but I have had strikes in a few Selkirk and Manchurian seedlings, after those trees were mature enough to blossom. BTW, those trees are almost 1/2 mile from my IoM seedling tree, so perhaps it has not been exposed here.

I am not sure how serious this actually is, but I feel obligated to pass this info. along, and I will PM all of those I have sent IoM scion to.
 
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For those of you interested in Ide’s of March (IoM), I have something to share that is of concern. I have been in contact with several forum members who I sent scion to last season, and one of them indicates that one of his three IoM bench grafts apparently had Fireblight, as evidenced by the characteristic shepherds crook die-back. He mentioned that IoM were his most vigorous grafts, growing to 5’ that first season, in Miracle Grow potting mix, and suggested that the exceptional vigor may have increased that tree’s susceptibility to FB. He also indicated that he snapped off the impacted shoots and that tree did fine thereafter.

So this morning I took a close look at my IoM seedling tree and my top & bench grafts, and all of them look clean and healthy, and I see no evidence of FB.

I have little experience with FB, but I have had strikes in a few Selkirk and Manchurian seedlings, after those trees were mature enough to blossom. BTW, those trees are at least 1/2 mile from my IoM seedling tree, so perhaps it has not been exposed here.

I am not sure how serious this actually is, but I feel obligated to pass this info. along, and I will PM all of those I have sent IoM scion.

The honesty of most of this group is great to see!


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