Merle Hawggard
5 year old buck +
Awesome! Those are some healthy looking trees.
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A look at the orchard
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Goldentriangle
A good 3 year old buck
That is one pretty wildlife orchard! It could pass as a well manicured commercial orchard.
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silver_yummies
5 year old buck +
Nice looking orchards. Can you tell us what rootstock those are on and your spacing you used between trees and between each row??
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.
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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.
Jordan Selsor
5 year old buck +
Beautiful
Some of the best orchard pics I have seen on here!
Some of the best orchard pics I have seen on here!
TreeDaddy
5 year old buck +
I would love to hear the story behind the creation and maintenance of that masterpiece
Suffice to say,I am jealous as hell
bill
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.
buckvelvet
5 year old buck +
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!
Buckvelvet,
You should't have long to wait. My oldest trees were only planted in 2008 with most of the trees including the Sweet sixteen being planted in 2012 or later. Your apple trees should be large enough to have a few apples three to four years after planting in most cases. I did prune and cage my trees for height right from the start and pruned to put my lowest scaffold branches no lower than
4 1/2 to 5 feet.
4wanderingeyes
5 year old buck +
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.
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.
