Recent content by Maya

I know you are young Jordan, but that's easy one. Whatever your wife wants! :emoji_grin:

Maybe I missed it, but what varieties were they? I have an heirloom variety (Grimes Golden) and I was not charged more, nor were they smaller than any other trees I normally get. That company is full of .....!

Cubes just to give you an idea of what the idea is..... 1st and foremost you want to get them light! 2nd we want to get them up and out of a dears reach asap. To do this you want one central leader and orient branches out to about a 60 degree angle. This will put the auxin (growth hormone)to...

They just need some training this year. Pic one leader and get all other branches trained to 60 degrees. Roughly like this. This will grow your tree the fastest and get it up out of a trees reach. Later on you can worry about shape.....please, do not do anything but training this year. ( unless...

Have you got any other pics? Is there a graft union? I agree w/ the others, that looks like rootstock. These pics show what I typically receive from ACN or Stark.

Wild Apple l found on farm l manage. Loaded as usual. They hang into march...

Mine were slow to fruit. I just top worked some crabs w them... An apple grew into a robins nest in one my trees! Lol

Darn it! I was over to the farm shed hunting, the Maya apple was loaded, but I didn't think to take a picture. I'll get over there and get some pics soon. I did shake some down for the deer though. These deer are coming back from it, into an old wild orchard. There's nothing left on those trees...

No heading cuts, and you will get growth but it will reach right up for the sky! Take it slow, a little here, and a little more next year would be much better. Again, if you want to thin an area, or shorten an area, cut back to a side branch. Sorry if I confused you some. Just thin a little...

Wow, looks like you cut a lot, be careful! You will get a lot of growth there on those trees. The next ones you do, try a little less. Have fun, but I would do a lot less than that 30% suggestion. You will be fine though. Also don't leave stubs. It's always a little herd to see what is going...

Do they come with the BM seal of approval and signed photo of BM himself? :emoji_grin: ..... What's up Bill? We need to catch up. I'll give you a call.

I hit one w/ a golf ball years ago and it know has a nice bend in the leader. Great character!

To bad we couldn't do it tomorrow, Aero is gone on vaca, we could just help ourselves to some cider! :emoji_smiling_imp::emoji_smiling_imp::emoji_smiling_imp:.........:emoji_stuck_out_tongue: Hope your having fun Aero!

Sounds like fun! Lets try and figure it out. Hopefully I can get some help in my orchard so I can get it pruned quickly.

One more thing. If you do take out some out of the tops to get more light in, make big cuts. What I mean by that is rather than cut out several smaller branches out of the canopy, which will all likely shoot a water sprout or two, cut out branches to open up an area by taking out the main branch...