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How laye to ripe and drop in PA?

Fireblight can be handled sonwhat with spraying and openibg up tree to more light and air. Think copper can handle it. Bonide copper works for me on pears for fireblight. Libeety, enterprise, freedom, sundance, and galaria are good replacements.

Mount some spray nozzles on the back of a cultipacker them mount a spreader on front of the bucket or atv. Then got got a serious foodplot rig. Lightly disc before if needed. Looks alot better at my heavy clay backyard plot. Mix clover in with the rye when broadcasting. I let nature grow...

Bang for buck and time foodplots trump trees. done at camp and home after this year. Thought 40 was already pricey. You could buy a few cheap extras from whitetail, then topwork with scion of choice next year. Many times you get a 2 year headstart buying over grafting. Time is expensive...

Been quiet on here. Tannerite is overated yet?

Crows are smart. Did the cardboard weedmat on spruces a few years back. One day i looked in thr backyard and one crow would lift the cardboard with its beak while the other would get bugs. Every 3-4 trees they'd switch. Siljy dogwood survived a -18 deg f winter in zone 3b NY adirondacks and...

I yrnd to prefer smaller trees. Roots you get are in part limited by the hsrvesting method/ equipment used. I want impressive roots more thsn impressive branch size. An exception to the rule is getting them in person. They cant stuff mobster roots well without damage. If i am not impressed...

Borthern spy get cedar rust. Fyi, m111 rootstock is 3/4's northern spy.

I think iy does help. These trees are at hone and get watered and monitored for bugs. I do prune pretty hard. Im putting trees in heavier clay, so i want sone good roots down there.

Grass is sorta thick, any moles or field mice / vole issues. Could of got nibbled up over the winter. Even if the tree leafs out, no roots to support it.

Saw a bit of ants before leaving on vacation. Town highwsy dept dumped off a load of chps.

So far all grafts that were good are still doing good. Had several 80s n sunny days too. Not a great idea to remove tape, but no harm no foul so far.

Got 10ft tall 3 year old trees i do that too. Planning to do that for anothwr 2 years. No flowers also means ypu can sprsy for caterpillars n aphids sooner and not harm bees.

Sone scions are slow to wake up. Especially if grafting once the rootstock wakes up. Ive had scions start to tske during a later wet spell. Mid june some might wsje up then. My topworking just woke up last week for the most part. Alot of early to bloom stuff like kerr, trailman, alk eibter...

Fall is a bad time to fertilize with nitrogen. Let the limbs harden. In general fertilize in april or may, thrn some in june and done APple orchards do fertilize with pottasium only in the fall. Takes awhile to get down in the soil.