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Bowsnbucks said:
Was the taller Kerr shaded for much of the day previously? We have 2 younger apple trees (planted spring of 2013) that HAD a lot of shade, but have since been opened up. They look like your 16 ft. Kerr - tall, skinny, and without many branches - probably trying to reach up to more sunlight??? I'm going to try a few pruning cuts to try to stimulate more branching on ours. Your pic and your comment about "fixing that" by cutting more surrounding trees made me see the similarities in their situations. Our 2 apple trees look exactly like your 16 ft. Kerr pic. Now I'm anxious to prune and fertilize them.

Your other Kerr looks great.
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Yes it probably got four to five hours of sun at the most. There was a huge maple 20 yards away that blocked 5 apple trees I have in a cluster. It was the biggest tree I have ever cut down(you can see it in backgroun). I had to cut from both sides to get it to fall. Diameter was close to 36”, luckily it was leaning the way I needed it to go.
 
chummer said:
Diameter was close to 36”, luckily it was leaning the way I needed it to go.
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The other of the 2 shaded apple trees at our place has a maple shading it too. But our maple tree is leaning the WRONG way we need it to fall. We may need to put a chain on it and pull it with the tractor to get it to fall away from the apple tree. That apple tree is skinny and taller too, like our other one that WAS shaded. Hoping more sunlight will fill out both trees with more limbs / more apples.

Keep us posted on how your tree does since being released.
 
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The deer seem to be hitting the crabs and the corn hard.


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Is the Buckman still firm or mush?
 
sandbur said:
And some more apple trees.
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Corn, apple & crab trees, weedy brush, and spruce for thermal / bedding cover. Looks like beans in the background of that one pic. Clearly you have it all wrong, Bur!!! :emoji_astonished: :emoji_wink:

Great batch of tracks in there. That says it all.
 
Bowsnbucks said:
Corn, apple & crab trees, weedy brush, and spruce for thermal / bedding cover. Looks like beans in the background of that one pic. Clearly you have it all wrong, Bur!!! :emoji_astonished: :emoji_wink:

Great batch of tracks in there. That says it all.
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No beans on my place. That is alfalfa to the left of the fence line with just a bit of red clover on the low end.


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Teeder said:
Is the Buckman still firm or mush?
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I didn’t try any.


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On the other end of the farm, most of the larger crabs are cleaned up. One of the few surviving Morse bunches is getting use. There are some Kerr, Big Dog, and Buckman down there that should produce in a few years. One Big Dog has fruit down there last year.


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Four foot tall neglected seedling that holds fruit late. I don’t see any scion there for this year.
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Big Dog in foreground, Yellow Dog in background. Both are topworks on dolgo seedlings.

Big Dog tended to drop earlier than normal this year. We had a hot and dry summer.


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There is a 1 acre corn plot adjacent to these trees. About 1/3 of the corn is left.
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Nice updates, sandbur. These are the ones most interesting to me, helping the critters in winter.
 
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