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I really think that tree just needed more time..almost like a two year sleep then last year creep and hopefully this year leap…(and produce some fruit..)

then back down in the 20s next week...gonna be really healthy for my tender little apple/pear blossoms...

my brother and I call that the "food plot/fruit tree magazine cover effect"...if the brassicas aren't 4.5 feet tall and lush we did something wrong!

yeah those two are some of the slower growing ones for me for sure...but if they get fruit by year 3 or so I'm usually ok with it..they are on a south facing slope that used to be a hay field so in my mind they should all be 20' tall by year 3 haha

Rut Rage Pear planted in the fall of 2022 pushing some good blossoms and Hewes Crab planted Fall 2023 is loaded!

going into Canada with their ArriveCAN app was a total joke...we had to give them an ETA when we would reach the border crossing and we did...our little convoy of 3 trucks was the ONLY traffic going into canada at about 5 AM on a Saturday! the people whose cabins we rented absolutely hated it...

One of them was a three year in the ground Wolf River that I was expecting fruit on that year till I noticed it kinda tipping sideways an when I went to move it the whole dang thing popped out of the ground! My little guy was with me and may have learned a new phrase or two that day…

I’ve planted over 100 fruit trees from both WC and BH (and others) and had the grafts above ground in North Central PA and the only 3 trees I’ve lost in 5 years have been from stupid voles…

definitely make sure its not wetland..do a mix of mammoth red and alsike clover...ive had alsike submerged for a bit that just then popped back and thickened up and mammoth red is a good poor/wet soil choice also

man I have a fridge crisper full of cash slowly waking up...definitely in the wrong business..

Will do! Helps that they’re in my front field so I can scope em out everyday (yes I may do that in occasion….)

grafting update: put 11 grafts of probably 6 varieties of near on this one..couldn’t find my paradigm so I used electrical tape..hope it works..leaves are just starting to pop so it might be a little early.. Also top worked and cleft grafted this Bradford pear which will have 9 different...

one thing about Hewes is its a pretty early popper..one of the earliest to break leaves out for me here in Northern PA...love the fruit and the growth it shows though..got one from Whitetail crabs and one from Adams county maybe?

Tilled and limed about 0.5 acre total in two plots inside one larger field. Seeded a third plot also in the field. Tilled an liked a separate 0.25 acre plot. Will spray and seed clover, chicory and oats in 3 weeks. First time using a tiller, definitely impressed. Brother’s kiddos drone took some...

That’s awesome! I would bet the one Roadkill I picked up this year was 10’ tall. Of course it was one of the trees my buddy had picked out..go figure.