Crabapple timeline
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BuckSnort
5 year old buck +
With all that fruit hanging yet, hopefully deer season was good for you Art!!I did my post rifle season scouting walk. I have not looked at most of these apple trees in almost two months.
This is Wotanda. The fruit load broke my graft off. Most of the apples fell off when I touched them. I did salvage just a few seeds which I will pass on to a friend who is in the wildlife tree business.
The apples are not fit for eating, possibly ok for hard cider and might be good for wildlife after this time of year. I will try and salvage some scion.
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sandbur
5 year old buck +
We filled out for the first time in years. Three bucks and two does as we wanted to thin the herd a bit.
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Charles Clear
5 year old buck +
Congrats on a great season! Wow, that Buckman crab is really impressive! I've been trying to get one from Blue hill for a while to no avail.
Teeder
5 year old buck +
Me too.
I ended up buying some rootstock for next spring. Hope to graft them eventually.
sandbur
5 year old buck +
I think Ryan will have his own scion source soon. When Buckman has this heavy fruit load, along with summer drought, I won’t have much of any scion.
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Teeder
5 year old buck +
Sandbur,
Do you have Turning Point? If so, how does it look?
That's another that I'm interested in.
Thanks!
Bowsnbucks
5 year old buck +
Planting a few from Ryan in the spring. Can't wait !!!!
Still a winner.
YOUR Buckman seedlings are still growing in pots at my home. They're lagging behind the Yellow Dog seedlings for growth, but are doing just fine. Your Buckman seedlings will go in the ground in the spring too. Caged and screened.
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sandbur
5 year old buck +
No, I think Big Dog is a Columbia.
Yellow Dog is a seedling, either a mix up from a Manchurian Crab order or more likely a seedling from my wife’s Grandma.
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sandbur
5 year old buck +
b116757
5 year old buck +
Anyone have Eliza’s Choice Crabapples I just ordered a couple to try wondered if anyone had them.
https://www.willisorchards.com/product/eliza's-choice-crabapple
https://www.willisorchards.com/product/eliza's-choice-crabapple
chummer
5 year old buck +
Hope you don’t have fire blight around
b116757
5 year old buck +
Nice thanks for the insight I will see. I have had fireblight issues with pears in the past these maybe a bust. There is always some uncertainty in trying new verities. I ordered some Harrison apple trees also will see how well they fair in my heavy CAR infected area. I absolutely love Honeycrisp apples and cannot grow them here at all do to disease issues.
Bowsnbucks
5 year old buck +
I'm happy to see your herd has rebounded from a few years back. I remember when you and Stu were looking to even see a deer - numbers were really low as I recall. It's great you all tagged out this year, and you have deer left over to keep enjoying what you've planted / nursed into production. Nice to see!!!
4wanderingeyes
5 year old buck +
Sanbur, I am in approximately the same climate you are in, just east about a hundred mile. What would you recommend for a tree that will hold into December, that is actually available to purchase somewhere? I am placing a few tree orders to places that are taking orders now, and would like to get a few more trees the will produce well, and drop late November early December. I ask you, because of all of the awesome pictures you post of the several trees you have still holding apples.
