Recent content by gunfun13

I heard that too, I thought hot, wet weather was worse for fireblight and the fungal diseases though? I know he's been spraying with Mike's Mighty Micros, wonder if the accelerated growth would have made the trees more susceptible?

Which is older? The tree or the buck?

Sandbur, Does Big Dog tend to me biennial for you? I have 2 I grafted 5-6 years ago from scions you sent me. They had their first decent crops last year, this year both are bare despite pretty good blossom loads. Surprised as Ryan lists it as annually productive and I've seen him mention...

I'm in S Michigan, my sweet advent has fruit the size of marbles and has put on 8-10" of growth already. I have a Sundance apple that is about 5 years old and every year it wakes up weeks later than the rest of my apples/crabs. No idea why. From the charts it's not a particularly late...

Anyone know the fruiting characteristics of a grown out M111 rootstock? Several years ago I grafted 100 of them. Had a few tops die back after moving to their permanent location and the rootstock resprout. Figured I'd let them get a little size then regraft. Fast forward to now...I let them...

I think it is debatable lol. Likely very dependent on variety of crab or apple as we know there can be a lot of variation in productivity. Also level of care, as crabs are likely to maintain productivity under neglect. My trees are relatively young, my first fruit tree planting in 2017...

1000%. I eat the berries, they're canes not trees/shrubs, and never seen a deer eat buckthorn. These pics are December 31, 2023...within an 8ish year old switch planting.

I wasn't aware there was different subspecies of wild blackberry. The blackberrys's I have here in Southern Michigan will hold green leaves well into December and are a deer magnet. I've many times watched deer walk through a food plot without taking a bite to feed on the blackberry's along...

I cut yesterday

30-06 still hanging and dropping. I haven't shook anything off for weeks...just a slow steady drop since October. If you look through my old posts I haven't been very high on this tree the last few years, to say it's gained major favor lately would be an understatement.

Droptine is yellow but will turn brown by this time of year.

I don't.

It's just a small diameter cage

I'd ditch the cages at this point and put on some rub guards. That buck looks like he'd shred some bark if given opportunity.

Not yet. First crop was small and It hasn't produced the last 2 years.