Recent content by DeerfieldApples

I'd give it another couple of weeks. If the forecast still looks warm after that then go for it. I'm in SE MI and think we are 3 weeks away from green tip at earliest. Hopefully more like 5-6 weeks but I do think its going to be an early one.

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An apple every 4-6" is a good rule to follow. I'm not sure how biennial Zestar! is but I would bloom thin flowers right now if you can given its only a few trees. Remove 50% of flower clusters if every single spur is full of flowers. (Just pinch off flowers once they expand from the spur, pink...

Simazine did not work with poplar cuttings at all. A weed mat is about the only thing I would trust to be safe with a cutting.

Dont sweat it!!!! Just remove the flowers, you'll be fine. Some varieties are very prone to flowering on 1 year old wood, its just something to deal with. As long as you only remove the flowers there should be a meristem within that flower that will start pushing a shoot. Somewhere between...

DO NOT spray oil and copper together post green tip! Dormant oil is used for mite control and copper is used for canker/ fire blight/ an early scab control. The idea behind copper early is to spray and hopefully maintain some presence of copper on the trunks of the tree through bloom. This...

99 Acre Christmas tree plantation located roughly 3 miles north of Hesperia Michigan. South facing aspect to 90%+ of the property. Assorted spruce/ fir/ pine. With clearing certain areas/ NWSG/ and some plots this has the potential to hold a ton of deer. $225,000...

We are getting rid a couple of our larger tractors. Probably on the large side for plotting but figured I'd post them here. First is a Ford TW-20, MFWD, Approx 5,500 hours $18,000 Second is a International Hydro 186, 2wd, Approx 5,000 hours $14,000

With 3' of snow on the ground I would think you are sitting in a good position for riding out the cold snap. Trees still pull water during the winter, even though it is at much much lower levels than during the growing season. Chances are you have a ground temperature of 31-32 degrees at the...

If you knew of an active fire blight canker in the spring you could collect the ooze and mix it with water, and then spray the solution over seedlings with cut leaves. Here's the thing though, the bacteria is usually found in orchards at some sort of level, its presence alone is not enough for...