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Signal Fire has lost most of it’s fruit, but it is still holding some on April 7th. And it’s buds are starting to open.

Teeder, Once you pot your acorns and put them under lights in your basement, do you leave the lights on 24-7, or do you go 12 hours on and 12 hrs off? Thanks!

Another Signal Fire photo.

Bows, Signal Fire is a roadside find from the Northern tip of lower Michigan, and it is full-sized in the last two photos I posted, ~1.25 to 1.5” in diameter. It usually drops too late for hunting, although deer do visit it during the fall and early winter to take the low hanging fruit. I...

Someone just asked if that Signal Fire fruit is full-sized yet. Not nearly!

Signal Fire is on track for another heavy crop this year, even though it blossoms early and withstood 3 late, hard frosts. And the new fruit is already coloring up.

I have contacted all 17 HT members that I sent Ide’s of March (IoM) scion to, and there has been only one graft with FB. The affected shoot was clipped off and that graft recovered and is now doing well. I believe that many of those 17 members made several IoM grafts. The IoM seedling tree...

I transplanted 5 crabs in December last year and they all did fine. If we have good snow cover the ground doesn’t freeze. We don’t have much snow this year, but it has been unseasonably warm, so shoveling is no problem.

I love planting this time of year (Dec.) if I can get a shovel in the ground. I have been transplanting volunteer crab seedlings that are growing too close to my trail roads or too near a larger tree. I try to get as much soil and root mass as I can lift up onto the truck tailgate without...

Bur, AWHO has never held it’s fruit this late for me, but I now believe that raccoons have been taking it. Apparently that stove pipe coon guard is working.

Bur, It was fenced until a year or so ago, but I needed that fence for a smaller tree. And its only 30-40 yards outside my den window & elk usually don’t come this close to the house.

All Winter Hangover is holding tight as well, but the fruit has darkened considerably, and it is now nearly black.

Signal Fire fruit is still brite red and holding tight, but the squirrels are really working on it now.

What a great idea…