Recent content by sandbur

I suspect more like 20 years. He sold bunches red and bunches yellow at the time. Some were not hardy for me. They were seedlings with fruit up to about 3/4 inch in size.

Seedling from a wild crab. Almost any crab dropping fruit right now is working. We have had cold and snow. Temps down to -28 at daybreak. Dolgo seedlings seem to be winners. Somehow I lost a picture of another dolgo seedling that someone on here helped me name Clown’s Nose. It is still...

Big Dog and Yellow Dog topworks on dolgo rootstocks.

The Buckman Crab is still at work.

Kerr wasn’t dropping very well. A good handshake helped.

The original Yellow Dog is still attracting deer.

A friend gave me three rootstocks . One is particularly attractive to the deer. He couldn’t remember what they were called.

Linda Sweet wasn’t dropping any fruit. I gave the tree a brisk handshake and it worked.

This is the original Big Dog tree. Deer are still using it.

Dolgo rootstock( seedling).

This is one of Charlie Morse’s Bunches crabs. There are three of these close by. Only one seems to be attractive.

I put on the snowshoes and did a tour today. Violi’s is dropping and attracting deer.

I wish I could propagate the wild crabs that grow in my swamp for rootstock. I tried once and could not get the seed to sprout. I have nursed 5 or six pieces of exposed root with a Bud along and now have nice grafted trees on them. Light Sandy soil with low pH here. Bottomlands are a bit...

Occasionally I have success.