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If you haven't purchased trees yet, you might want to be cautious with liberty and enterprise. I've seen others here saying they have had cold tolerance issues in climate like you mentioned. The liberty I planted last year on the 4a/4b border died back a bit on the main leader over winter and I believe the same happened with an enterprise i planted on the 4a/3b border.
Yeah, i'm only a little over a year in and my chestnut crabs seem to be growing as well or better than anything. Liberty is putting on as much growth but i bought it as a whip last year from central MN and it had some dead growth at the top and then exhibited the same this spring on some of last year's new growth.
I also have Redfree it’s another solid choice for zones 4-8 as far as disease resistance. I love my apple trees but do wish I’d of planted more crabs particularly for wildlife plantings.
If you haven't purchased trees yet, you might want to be cautious with liberty and enterprise. I've seen others here saying they have had cold tolerance issues in climate like you mentioned. The liberty I planted last year on the 4a/4b border died back a bit on the main leader over winter and I believe the same happened with an enterprise i planted on the 4a/3b border.
Yeah, i'm only a little over a year in and my chestnut crabs seem to be growing as well or better than anything. Liberty is putting on as much growth but i bought it as a whip last year from central MN and it had some dead growth at the top and then exhibited the same this spring on some of last year's new growth.
I have a couple wild crab seedlings (Dolgo I'm assuming) from Blue Hill that I'm debating on letting them stay as Dolgo or attempting to graft. Any thoughts to not doing that? Definitely a benefit grafting to something known. I have two of them in one specific location. My goal is to have one start dropping in September and then one in Oct/Nov.