Merle Hawggard
5 year old buck +
Awesome! Those are some healthy looking trees.
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Chummer, I had blossoms that I removed on the Liberties and Freedoms the next spring after planting. Year 3 about 10 or 12 apples per tree.Job well done. Looks text book to me. Do you remember how long it took to get your first apple?
I spray twice a year with Gly, around May/June then again in early September. I go through first and trim off all of the suckers and root sprouts from the bases of the trees prior to spraying.Awesome, awesome, awesome!
Are you spraying to keep the area around the base of your trees clear? I've been using lumite, but I'm looking for an alternative...
Flat out AWESOME!
I went over it twice looking those trees over!
The trees are mostly on M111 and B118 rootstocks, I did start some of the trees by grafting scions to seed grown apple rootstocks. The rows are about 25 feet apart with the trees being 18 to 20 feet apart in the row.Nice looking orchards. Can you tell us what rootstock those are on and your spacing you used between trees and between each row??
Man thanks for posting that! Awesome pictures, some day I will be in the position to post a walk through my orchard. Really appreciate your post!
Brownsbucks, I fertilize each spring, about a 16 oz cupful around each of the smaller trees applied at the drip line. Two cups for the larger trees. I limed the area prior to planting, so I do not lime each year. Southwest NY about 10 miles from the PA border.
4wanderingeyes, I generally fertilize with triple 19. Each spring I usually have a couple of bags leftover after applying fertilizer to the soil prior to planting corn. I usually trim the trees in February or March and try to keep the smaller trees trimmed well, removing excess branches and securing the central leader to a 1/2" conduit to result in a straight well formed tree. This gets more difficult as the trees get larger.What do you fertilize with? 10-10-10?
Another question I have is, how much do you try to keep them trimmed? The reason I ask is, I just toured a commercial apple orchard, and it looks like the trees have never been trimmed, and the trees are planted close together that the branches are all touching other trees.