Black Limbertwig
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buckvelvet
5 year old buck +
I have 3 limbertwigs, I think all from you, I'm on the limbertwig train too now, lol!
Jordan Selsor
5 year old buck +
Pretty sure that's the tree Native hunter aka steve has bragged about in the past. Seems to be a good hardy producer
Native Hunter
5 year old buck +
My Black Limbertwig is the one of the trees that got moved with a backhoe because of a new road coming through. On top of that, after it got moved I had a rodent to gnaw 70% of the bark surface area at groundline. The tree is still alive, but it put out no new growth last season. I have two other small ones started, but they are too small at this time to get scion wood from.
If you don't find it anywhere else, check with me next year. I might be able to provide some by that time.
I will say that I've never grown a finer apple tree (in all respects) than Black Limbertwig. It flat hurt to have this much bad luck with my favorite tree.
If you don't find it anywhere else, check with me next year. I might be able to provide some by that time.
I will say that I've never grown a finer apple tree (in all respects) than Black Limbertwig. It flat hurt to have this much bad luck with my favorite tree.
Native Hunter
5 year old buck +
Stu, at the time I didn't think of that, but I agree it would have been a good option.
The gnawing didn't appear to go completely through the bark - maybe 1/2 way, so that gave me hope it could heal in time. What I did was cover the area with dirt, hoping that it might stimulate growth/rooting in the area. The graft is now a little below grade. Despite the issues, the tree actually had about 20 apples last year, and I just let them grow. A few of them looked normal size but some were smaller than normal. I saw no new growth of limbs.
Hopefully a complete recovery will come eventually.
aerospacefarmer
5 year old buck +
Should be ok even with 70 % girdling. Apple trees can be amazingly resilient. I have 2 black limbertwigs from someone here but the deer already pruned them this summer and no scions to be had
aerospacefarmer
5 year old buck +
I think you need to be a real surgeon to do one of those grafts lol
buckvelvet
5 year old buck +
SUCK!
Merle Hawggard
5 year old buck +
On mine I made a longer than normal inverted T cut on the tree I wanted to save then a arrow type cut the same, about, length on the crab apple seedling I used to bridge to it.
I used grafting tape to bind them very tight and tied a sandwich bag over the whole thing, had to be creative since I had three places to tie.
I left the bag and binding on a little later than normal too since I was worried the wind would break the graft if it wasn't healed well.
Don't know if that's the correct way, but it worked for me. I've got pics up on my property tour.
I used grafting tape to bind them very tight and tied a sandwich bag over the whole thing, had to be creative since I had three places to tie.
I left the bag and binding on a little later than normal too since I was worried the wind would break the graft if it wasn't healed well.
Don't know if that's the correct way, but it worked for me. I've got pics up on my property tour.
