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Plant whatever cultivar that you want there. Then graft a crab apple onto one branch.

When I Bench Graft, I use the Whip and Tongue method. Don't let the roots on your rootstock get dry.

They can be used as rootstock for named cultivars. They work great!

I would get some rootstock and make some grafts of each tree. That way you could plant the grafts in a better location where you can preserve the cultivars. You never know when a tree like that will die.

That is a pear. Put a camera on them to see if they are being used. Top work them into something useful this spring if nothing is eating the fruit. They are usually very astringent in my experience. They make great rootstock. Just be sure to cut off all of the sprouts under the graft.

Here is a third vote for Yates.

I'm just finishing up the second treatment with Formic Pro. I'll hit them around Thanksgiving with Oxalic Acid. 600 Lbs for me this year. Now I have to bottle it all up.

Swamp Chestnut Oak?

It sounds like Bald Faced Hornets. That is what they are if they are black and white. They should be about the size of a Bumble Bee. Yellow jackets usually build in the ground and are yellow and brown or yellow and black. Both of them will be on you like white on rice if you mess with them.

With persimmons, I don't think that the graft being underground would have any effect on the tree. Apples are a different story.

I don't graft to potted seedlings any more. I have many persimmon trees shooting up from the roots and stumps in my old pasture, so I graft to them. I'm in a 60 chromosome area. I've noticed that when I graft 90 chromosome material to 60 chromosome rootstock, I can get a bloom or two the...

Tree Daddy are you sure that the grafts on your trees survived? You said that you planted them in 2013 and you have only seen a few male flowers. I usually get fruit on my Asian varieties by the third year after grafting. I have never noticed any male flowers. Asian persimmons have big glossy...

Aphids. See the little green dots on the twig and leaf?

Did you graft them? If so, to what rootstock? They look great from the photo. I'd like to hear more about them.

Another easy way is to disk up the row in order to kill the weeds and grass, then run down the middle of the row with a one tine subsoiler.