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

cavey

5 year old buck +
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 are known varieties that I just plain lost track of. Many/most are just babies but some are mature large trees now. I got 60 plus out of the nursery this spring and have them all staked, screened and cage... I need to spray the ground and this year I swear Im going to paint the lower trunks white on everyone of them. I have a few areas left I want to ring with trees and one area out back Im going to grow old and hunt the hell out of - watch the trees grow and rain down fruit around me in my old age kind of stand area. In the future as they grow I will have a mess of scion to offer up, It will be a few years.

but I have proof that I have a serious grafting problem >

American Pippin
Antonovka Rootstock apple
Arkansas Black apple
Ashmeads Kernel
*Auction Block apple
Awesome apple (known but lost variety name)
Bessemiaka Michurin
B118 Rootstock apple
Black Ben Davis apple
Braeburn apple
Bramley Seedling apple
Browns apple
Browns Snout apple
Calville Blanc apple
*Casper crab
Chestnut crab
Court Pendu Plat apple
Cox Orange Pippin
Dabinett
D'Arcy Spice apple
*DNR Yellow crab
Dolgo crab
Duchess of Oldenburg Apple
Empire apple
Esopus Spitzenburg
Fireside apple
*Fleming Red apple
Foxwhelp apple
Frostbite apple
Fuji Red Sport apple
Golden Hornet
Golden Russet
Goldrush apple
Goodview Osel apple
sweet bough
Gozda Green apple (old farmstead apple)
*Gozda Lake bank crab
Grimes Golden apple
Harry Masters apple
Hawkeye apple
Hawiia apple
Home crab (Ornamental)
Honeycrisp apple
Honeygold apple
Hospital crab ornamental
Hospital crab better ornamental
Huaguan apple
Jonalicious apple
Kerr crab
Kingston Black apple
**Korja de sun
*Kulzer’s Best apple
*Kulzer 2” apple
*Kuester crab
*Kuester Cow crab
*Late Osel apple
Liberty apple
Linda Sweet apple
*Little Cleaver (M. Osel) crab
LL farmstead apple (old farmstead apple)
*Mandy’s Find apple (late)
Medaille d'or apple
Michellin apple
Mollie’s Delicious apple
*Mousel Big Side apple
*Mousel Other apple
*Mousel Small Side apple
NeverBlight apple
Northwood apple
Northern Spy apple
Pink Pearl apple
Pippin
Pipsqueak apple
Pitmaston Pineaple apple
*PP crab (late)
Professor Sprenger crab
Pumpkin Sweet apple
Reinette Simirenko apple
Red Field apple
Red October apple
Roxbury Russet apple
Saint Edmonds Russet
*Scott Osel Wild Hill apple
Scugog apple
Sekai Ichi apple
*Smeston Small crab
Smokehouse apple
Snowsweet
Sops of Wine
Spartan apple
Stoke Red apple
Sweet Bough apple
Sweet 16 apple
Suiki apple
Tydeman red apple
*Tiny Timm crab
*Titty Bar apple (Hill-Top strip joint bar tree)
Tolman Sweet apple
Trailman apple
*Trespass apple
*Unpleasant View apple
UW Stout HS weeping crab
Vista Bell apple
Watermelon apple
*Welstein Road (Keyes) apple
*Welstein Hill (Keyes) apple
White Cloud apple
Whitney crab
William’s Pride apple
Winecrisp apple
Winter Banana apple
Wolf River apple
**Xanto apple
**Xaino apple
** xanthocarpa apple
Yellow apple (known desert apple but lost name)
Yellow Newtown Pippin
*Yellow Swamp crab (Mousel (late))
Zestar
1st Row crab (know crab ?)
2nd Row crab (known crab?)
3rd Row crab (known crab?)
*320 Loaded crab
*320 ½ & ½ crab
70 acre RS apple
 
Beyond any real help I’d say. :emoji_stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:
 
That is AWESOME...love it!
I’m going to have to send you some scions next February brother!
 
I guess maybe we are all normal after all. The rest of the world just doesn't get it.
 
Your “addiction” looks normal to me also
 
..........Now you need bees

bill
 
I don’t see a problem except for two things. You are growing apples with names I can’t pronounce and you need more crab apples.


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You only have a problem if you admit one ... you did, but it's like admitting to a bartender that you like beer ...
 
I’m jealous. I wish I was able to have your addiction.
 
..........Now you need bees

bill
lol, got bees..... or had them, wife said she wanted bees, we dumped into two hives... then she got pregnant and never touched them again. This would have been the third year.

Last fall I had 1 hive swarm and my other kacked this spring... both were my fault .... honey bound the first hive then I had the brilliant idea not to treat the other in late fall. I will try and catch a couple swarms this summer.
 
Not a single Limbertwig on your list. :emoji_scream: I currently have 36 different varieties. :emoji_flushed: I'll have to send you a package next spring. :emoji_laughing:
 
Not a single Limbertwig on your list. :emoji_scream: I currently have 36 different varieties. :emoji_flushed: I'll have to send you a package next spring. :emoji_laughing:
I had a Limbertwig scion or two that I cut up and none took ... sucks when you only have one scion stick of a variety and they all kack off. I can usually get 3 or 4 grafts out of a stick and I rarely drop below 50% failure - just sometimes you strike out on a counts on that one stick.
 
You have me beat... just barely though! Here's what I jammed onto 3 trees (and 1 pear and 1 plum)!

Airlie Red Flesh
Akane
Åkerö
Alexander
Alkmene
Allen's Everlasting
Arkansas Black
Ashmead's Kernel
Aurora (Pear)
Baldwin
Belle de Boskoop
Belle Lucrative (Pear)
Ben Davis
Black Gilliflower
Black Oxford
Blenheim Orange
Blue Pearmain
Bosc (Pear)
Brandreth
Calville Blanc
Canadian Strawberry
Chenango Strawberry
Chestnut
Clapps Favorite (Pear)
Cox's Orange Pippin
Crimson Crisp
Des Urbanistes (Pear)
Egremont Russet
Ellison's Orange
Enterprise
Erwin Bauer
Esopus Spitzenberg
Fameuse
Flemish Beauty (Pear)
Florina
Freedom
Frostbite
Golden Russet
Golden Sweet
Goldrush
Gravenstein
Greening (RI)
Grey Pearmain
Hauer Pippin
Hawkeye
Holstein
Honeycrisp
Honeysweet (Pear)
Hubbardston Nonesuch
Hudson's Golden Gem
Hurlbut
Jonathan
Kandil Sinap
Karmijn de Sonnaville
Keepsake
King David
King of Tompkins County
Knobbed Russet
Lady Api
Leopardo Morretini (Pear)
Liberty
Longjohn (Plum)
Macoun
Malinda
Newtown Pippin
Nodhead
Nova Easygro
NY-35
Opalescent
Parker
Passe Crassane (Pear)
Patten
Pomme Gris
Porter
President (Plum)
Prima
Pristine
Quebec Belle
Razor Russet
Red Astrachan
Red Astrachan
Red Sensation
Redfield
Redfree
Resista
Roxbury Russet
Rubinette
Scarlett O'Hara
Sinta
Smokehouse
South Kent
Spartan
St. Lawrence
Starkey
Starsong (NY 315)
Summer Rambo
Sundance
Swaar
Sweet Sixteen
Tolman Sweet
Trailman
Tsugaru
Tydeman's Late Orange
Wagener
Waltana
Wealthy
Westfield Seek-No-Further
Wickson Crab
Williams Pride
Windham Russet
Winecrisp
Winesap
Winter Nelis (Pear)
Wolf River
Yates
Zabergau Reinette
 
You have me beat... just barely though! Here's what I jammed onto 3 trees (and 1 pear and 1 plum)!
You have some cool trees... we should talk scion in the future! Well done!
 
So, can you tell which trees the deer have been feeding on by the taste of the vension? :emoji_thinking:

Cider at your place has to be a real treat. I wouldn't even know where to start with that many choices to combine. What's the over/under in your opinion for when complexity starts to become muddled?
 
So, what is you favorite? :emoji_grin:
 
I just planted my first 7 apple trees at our new land this past weekend. It a blast starting our own orchard. I told my wife on the way home that we might just have to fill the whole field up some day!

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So, can you tell which trees the deer have been feeding on by the taste of the vension? :emoji_thinking:

Cider at your place has to be a real treat. I wouldn't even know where to start with that many choices to combine. What's the over/under in your opinion for when complexity starts to become muddled?
Oops thought I sent out a reply, most of the trees are under 4 years old from grafting so it will be awhile before these babies start producing let alone me thinking how Im going to blend them. Most of my mature apples are dessert/fresh eaters so we will see how they blend up. I was going to make a scratter but have decided to build a DIY grinder - SS hoper and feed tube into a food processing like cutting disk that will make a mash.... Press will be my large shop press pressing on a SS tub. Goal is cider - then hard cider and finally someday apple brandy.
 
So, what is you favorite? :emoji_grin:I
(if the question was shot out to me) I do not have a favorite yet .... I did get a graft or to hold off that double P and 29 crab you told me about - never tasted one of the crabs off of it but I see she still holds crabs yearly.
 
I just planted my first 7 apple trees at our new land this past weekend. It a blast starting our own orchard. I told my wife on the way home that we might just have to fill the whole field up some day!

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The first seven of many, it has started.
 
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