Bowsnbucks
5 year old buck +
Bur - Looks like you have a lot of "hangers" yet on some of your trees. Those deer don't look malnourished either.
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BuckSnort
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sandbur
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Open pollinated and it will be interesting to see what you get!
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H20fwler
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I've got a couple Golden Hornets planted on G222 because that was all I could find at the time and it's not that bad of a rootstock. I have since grafted scions from them to M111 to make bigger trees.
Anyway...my third leaf GH maybe 7' tall really load up on quarter size orange little crabs that are beautiful to the eye and taste OK, also have crazy slow drop some hang all winter long. Monday I was at the farm and this GH is just about to break blossom and still has fruit hanging on it.
Anyway...my third leaf GH maybe 7' tall really load up on quarter size orange little crabs that are beautiful to the eye and taste OK, also have crazy slow drop some hang all winter long. Monday I was at the farm and this GH is just about to break blossom and still has fruit hanging on it.
sandbur
5 year old buck +
I've got a couple Golden Hornets planted on G222 because that was all I could find at the time and it's not that bad of a rootstock. I have since grafted scions from them to M111 to make bigger trees.
Anyway...my third leaf GH maybe 7' tall really load up on quarter size orange little crabs that are beautiful to the eye and taste OK, also have crazy slow drop some hang all winter long. Monday I was at the farm and this GH is just about to break blossom and still has fruit hanging on it.
My experiences with GH are the same. Great deer tree.
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sandbur
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This Kerr crab rested last year, but will make up for it this year.
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I stripped flowers off of the central leader to try and reduce tipping of it.
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BuckSnort
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WOW!!!!!This Kerr crab rested last year, but will make up for it this year.
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sandbur
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Trees showing their first blossoms and possible first fruit tasting for me are Rescue, Whitney, and Bastian’s Orange Flesh crabs.
There are also two or three seedlings showing their first blossoms.
I have eaten many Whitney’s off of the ‘mother tree.’ Heck if I know that is the proper name for the scion donor.
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There are also two or three seedlings showing their first blossoms.
I have eaten many Whitney’s off of the ‘mother tree.’ Heck if I know that is the proper name for the scion donor.
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sandbur
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rocksnstumps
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Bur,
Nice on the Whitney as that's a lot of flowers for first bloom. Whitney seems to be a fast growing early bearing tree for me. Had first blossoms at 3rd leaf but much less than what your tree shows. Overall a nice tree but ripens earlier than most here like late Aug. Whitney and Chestnut crabs are definitely quick growers
I am finally getting some blooming with the regular apple varieties at 5th leaf. Enterprise and Wolf River.
Nice on the Whitney as that's a lot of flowers for first bloom. Whitney seems to be a fast growing early bearing tree for me. Had first blossoms at 3rd leaf but much less than what your tree shows. Overall a nice tree but ripens earlier than most here like late Aug. Whitney and Chestnut crabs are definitely quick growers
I am finally getting some blooming with the regular apple varieties at 5th leaf. Enterprise and Wolf River.
rocksnstumps
5 year old buck +
1 of 4 Franklins also has a few blossoms on my place. 4th leaf on B118. They have been modest growers in my locations. Crab apple varieties grow much faster here.
sandbur
5 year old buck +
I feel crab apples are more tolerant of less than ideal conditions as compared to larger apples.
I just found a crab along the edge of my alfalfa field. I have probably driven by it thousands of times in 30 years, but it started to bloom.
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BuckSnort
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Funny you say that, I just plucked all the blossoms off my 3rd year Whitney on B118 yesterday.
