Recent content by KickapooKid#1

Here is my Franklin cider on B118 as of today. It’s grown well for me but hasn’t blown me away with production and for taste human consumption since I don’t press cider. Apples do hang well for me.

The yellow is not good very Tannic with not much sweetness. The other crab is not too bad. Way more balanced with a lot of juice.

Tomorrow I will finish top working the upper part of my Honeycrisp over to a Liberty. This tree is on Anty roots. I also will be planting 4 trees I have had in my nursery at home for 2 years in 7 gallon root trapper bags. 1 Dolgo on Dolgo roots, 1 Chestnut on Dolgo roots, 1 Travelers crab on...

I’m in zone 4. I use a a variety of rootstocks. I have 3 trees going in this year on dolgo, b118 and m111.

I will probably end up grafting 5 or so trees every year for the rest of my life for some reason. Lol. Most of these trees are crabs I’ve scouted for years and old reliables like liberty, Enterprise, chestnut crab and Dolgo.

I forgot to take a picture of the the cherry red crab. It has red flesh and is very tasty yet ridiculously offensive at the same time. Both crabs were still very crisp last weekend.

Others I’ve scoped out and have been watching for 3 years. I feel like these are seedlings of seedlings of seedlings of the original settlers in my area if that makes sense. Ive leaned towards crabs like this to escape all the coon pressure I receive on my full sized apples in July. I have 6...

These are average size crabs for my two trees.

I will have to become a full time trapper. I have 2 Cortland tress that are enormous that get picked cleaned by mid July. Alsoforget to mention that it’s my cleanest from disease and bug pressure.

These 2 beautiful trees are fairly young in my orchard. I grafted them in 2017 from a local tree I’ve been scouting for years. They are the only apples that remain in my mostly mature 18 tree orchard. They are on b118 roots. Raccoon pressure is crazy. All my other trees are picked cleaned and...

Chestnut crab, Liberty and Enterprise. That way you have early, mid and late dropping apples. They are easy to acquire, disease resistant and fast growing. Also they all taste pretty good for human consumption.

I had a bunch of Pixie crunch this year. It’s my new favorite apple.

I forgot to mention I’m in 4b south central wi.

It does have some pinkish orange flesh.

I started panting our first trees in 2010. Gave it a few years to see what would happen and started planting again in 2015 and every year since except last year.