Recent content by blueKYstream

No mice or vole issues.

I want to say that it was late November when I fertilized. The leaves had fallen and trees were dormant. I hadn't noticed any adverse effects to this point on the other 5 apples and about 20 or 25 pears that I've checked so far. I figured at worst, the roots wouldn't take it up. It certainly...

I know this is an older thread but I had a similar thing happen to my Arkansas Black. It's not near a walnut tree or anything else. I couldn't spot a disease. It leafed out briefly and the leaves wilted. It's 6 years old if I remember right. The only thing I can think is maybe overfertilization...

I did mulberries April 12th and 13th (near Cincinnati) two years ago and had good luck. Persimmons I did May 14th and late May last year. In the past I did early May. I did real well with the ones in the yard, not so good at a distant property. I wasnt able to pinch back buds as much as I...

I've done pears and apples earlier and had 100% takes out of about 25 grafts. It's not going to hurt to wait though. You'll have a better chance of avoiding damaging frosts.

Apples and pears are more forgiving with cold temperatures. The problem you might encounter is if you graft, the graft begins to leaf out and there's a hard frost that kills the new foliage. The grafts may not sprout new buds. I've usually waited until about the time when flowers start to open...

The mulberry from Chesnut Hill/Walmart died back and didnt grow much after that. Last i checked, it looked dead. I'll have to check it again when Spring comes. I'm hoping maybe it resprouts from lower on the trunk but Im not hopeful. I grafted some alba/hybrid rootstocks with a few different...

I've planted numerous pears on Ohx97 rootstock. When I moved, there was a large collection of callery pears in the back yard. They ranged from an inch to 6 or 8 inches in diameter. I had no issues grafting European or Asian pears to them. I did bark grafts on the large trees and cleft grafts on...

I haven't monitored blooming on all of them but it seems to bloom about a week or two earlier than most other pears.

You confirmed my suspicions that it's prone to frosts. Are those golf ball size Pears? I like the idea of smaller Pears that are harder for coons to run off with but seems to be unreliable with fruiting in my location.

Yeah, let us know how it turns out. The first crop on mine had pears about the size of a thumbnail. Since nothing ate it and I presume the last two years the blooms froze, it had me debating wanting to graft it over to another variety.

I have Dr. Deer Pear. It produced first time I think 3 years ago. The fruits were really small at that time. It hung on the tree into January, which surprised me nothing ate it by then. They were mushy and flavorless (I sampled one) at that time. The next two years I've had no fruit. I've read...

I wasn't sure how this would do on somewhat larger ones I hadn't cut. It seems to have worked!

I'll likely give that a try at some point on the bigger ones. If it doesn't resprout from the roots, that's the way to go. Otherwise it becomes an even bigger problem.

I've tried Gly at 20% to cut stumps in other areas. It generally does well with a number of species but not black locust. Treatment 1 was cut stump and 25% Garlon 4 and 75% diesel. Treatment 2 was cut again the following year and the same mix. Always applied within 10 minutes or less of...