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The NW Greening is a great looking tree. I'm not worried about it! Even the little sweet 16 started to take off after a while last year. Started slow and I didn't have the best protection/ground covering but it should do fine now. The sweet 16 I planted from BRN in 2012 is probably my straightest tree and one of the more vigorous ones. The HGG from that batch is probably the most vigorous one. Those all started as small little runty things too.
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badgerfowl
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stopped by for 10 minutes on saturday to check out the apple trees. There's still water in the old oxbows in the woods but it's been down for a couple weeks now. Haven't had much rain lately. Everything is coming to life now. I noticed some of my hinge cuts along the field edge budded out too. Hopefully they'll stay alive for a few years.
Had blooms on quite a few trees. Hopefully we avoid a freeze this coming weekend. Everything should be good then.
Had blooms on quite a few trees. Hopefully we avoid a freeze this coming weekend. Everything should be good then.
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badgerfowl
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We were supposed to this past weekend. Got the boat in Saturday afternoon. Fired up with the first start but would clunk out when trying to get on plane. Limped it to our dock. Tried again, same thing, then limped it back to launch and took it out. Took the cover off at home and noticed two holes in the air filter. Nothing was open at that time so will try to get it in later this week. Fished off the dock with no bites. Water temp 60 so should be good soon.
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badgerfowl
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Some pics from the weekend. Crappy cell phone pics. Good camera died after only a few shots of the 1st leaf trees.
7th leaf wolf river. Dwarf.
Cortlands
Hinge trees leafed out
We obviously don't have enough browse in our woods. My dogwoods look the same where I removed any protection. These are sandbar willow and a few HP.
Enterprise w/ a few blossoms. Probably won't let it keep too many. Either 3rd or 4th leaf. B118.
Hudson's Golden Gem 5th leaf. B118. Seems to be a tip-bearer. Not sure if I ever looked that up before.
7th leaf wolf river. Dwarf.
Cortlands
Hinge trees leafed out
We obviously don't have enough browse in our woods. My dogwoods look the same where I removed any protection. These are sandbar willow and a few HP.
Enterprise w/ a few blossoms. Probably won't let it keep too many. Either 3rd or 4th leaf. B118.
Hudson's Golden Gem 5th leaf. B118. Seems to be a tip-bearer. Not sure if I ever looked that up before.
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badgerfowl
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boat issues
Searched for mushrooms around the lot. Found this instead. Think its a ramp.
Searched for mushrooms around the lot. Found this instead. Think its a ramp.
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badgerfowl
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Stopped by our place yesterday afternoon. We hit 22 degrees Sunday morning.
First year trees are looking good. Off to a nice start. Cummin's trees are looking better than St. Lawrence. Maybe that's the difference between 1 and 2 year old transplants? Either way, everything is leafed out.
Dolgo on P18.
Chestnut Crab on B118
NW Greening on B118
Golden Hornet on MM106
Kerr on P18
Might have some fruit despite the freeze. Find out for sure next month.
Black Oxford still at 1/2" green at the most. Hoping it doesn't die on me.
Deer made quick work of the willows. Easy to see the browse line on the HP.
First year trees are looking good. Off to a nice start. Cummin's trees are looking better than St. Lawrence. Maybe that's the difference between 1 and 2 year old transplants? Either way, everything is leafed out.
Dolgo on P18.
Chestnut Crab on B118
NW Greening on B118
Golden Hornet on MM106
Kerr on P18
Might have some fruit despite the freeze. Find out for sure next month.
Black Oxford still at 1/2" green at the most. Hoping it doesn't die on me.
Deer made quick work of the willows. Easy to see the browse line on the HP.
Bowsnbucks
5 year old buck +
Badger - My St. Lawrence trees usually take a little longer to kick into gear ( Antonovka rootstock ) than Cummins or ACN on B-118 or MM-111, but they will. I've had NO PROBLEMS with any St. Lawrence trees. Actually - none with Cummins or ACN either !! :)
Those poplars are looking pretty good.
Those poplars are looking pretty good.
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badgerfowl
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That's good to hear. I can't wait til they get some growth on them and start producing. These are my first ones on standard rootstock. With a bunch of others already producing I can wait for fruit w/ these.
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badgerfowl
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Is that from the same grafting year as the one you gave me? I'm hoping this year it finally starts to grow up.
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badgerfowl
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Here's what the PS looks like as of Monday. Need to clear the weeds next time I'm up. It had a bunch of grapevine things around it last year. Probably didn't help things. I cleared those last fall.
CrazyEd
5 year old buck +
Yup same age tree. I didn't take a pic but I will next time.
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badgerfowl
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Made it up to our place after a couple week break. Very few apples after the late frost so hopefully they all put on some good growth this year. Everything looks ok so far. Didn't notice much for bugs yet.
Prairie Spy continues to progress, albeit a bit bushy.
NW Greening
Kerr on P18
Chestnuts on B118
Dolgo on P18
Prairie Spy continues to progress, albeit a bit bushy.
NW Greening
Kerr on P18
Chestnuts on B118
Dolgo on P18
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badgerfowl
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Yea, I'm just glad it's doing something! I stopped by again on Monday on my way home from working in Clark Co and cleared the weeds around all 10 of the 1st leaf trees and 5 of the other younger ones, including the PS. I left too big of an opening around a few trees from a couple years ago so I just need to get another piece of weed mat around the trunk and that should help things too. I'll let the PS do its thing this year and then prune it good next spring. I'm more of a pruner than a trainer. Maybe not the best way but it works for me.
I hate the heat. I'm ready for September! Sick of summer already. Although our fishing just started memorial day weekend basically when we finally got our boat back from the shop so I can enjoy that for awhile. We made up for it the last two weekends. Panfish action has been great. Had a 17-18" bass jump out of the water and spit out the jig on saturday. Would have been tough getting him in the boat by myself w/ ultra light gear.
Caught gills, crappies, perch, lg bass, rock bass, and a walleye this past weekend.
Bowsnbucks
5 year old buck +
The fishing sounds good, Badger. With heat waves, it's good to be on the water.
Trees look good too. We have Dolgo, Chestnut, and PS at camp too. All growing really well. I think you'll be very happy with all those - good cold-hearty proven varieties.
Trees look good too. We have Dolgo, Chestnut, and PS at camp too. All growing really well. I think you'll be very happy with all those - good cold-hearty proven varieties.
