Recent content by qdmohio

Now that I don't know, I'm in zone 5b.

I have a Kieffer Pear and a Seckel Pear. The Kieffer gets bad FB just about every year. The tree looks terrible right now, probably going to cut it down this year. The Seckel, on the other hand, is only 20 feet from the Kieffer, was planted the same day in 2007, and has never had the first...

Honeycrisp are very slow to start doing much fruiting, at least here in southeast Ohio. I have several on M111 rootstock that I planted in Spring 2007, and this year is the first year I am getting more than a handful of fruit from any of them. If your tree is on standard rootstock, I'm...

I'm testing out that theory. I top-worked half a dozen trees this Spring and a few grafts on some of the scaffold limbs didn't take (I think I might have done them too early and they dried out). I had some scions still in the fridge, so I took them out and grafted them on either as a bark/rind...