hunts_with_stick
5 year old buck +
Does anyone have a good apple sauce recipe that’s easy? We made a lot of cider that we froze and a bunch of hard cider. My boys love applesauce so that would be good too.
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BuckSnort
5 year old buck +
My trees are all young yet. But as I continue to plant more & more, I can see how easily it will be for them to get neglected….Four foot tall neglected seedling that holds fruit late. I don’t see any scion there for this year.
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Mortenson
5 year old buck +
Yeah I can see that also. Just keep up with the big steps required for survival at least. Keep them window screened and caged. If you miss pruning, fertilizing, or weeding for a year or two it's less critical than those biggies.
sandbur
5 year old buck +
I use mainly crab apples in sauce. Rinse and pull off stems. Cook with a bit of water and then run them through a food mill or some call it a Foley food processor.
I don’t cut up crab apples at all. If I add bigger apples, I cut them up.
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Wind Gypsy
5 year old buck +
The corn was behind me in the first picture.
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Corn and late hanging apples inside conifer screening.. Looks like winter deer heaven!
sandbur
5 year old buck +
The 30 acre field on the left is alfalfa. They are still digging for it just a bit.
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Bowsnbucks
5 year old buck +
If you can get permission, cut a lower, horizontal limb in half. That limb should push vertical water sprouts this next summer that'll make good scion for grafting. I did that with trees here and they produced lots of water sprouts that were nice and straight.
The rootstock of the flowering crab next to it isn’t too shabby either. This fruit is slightly larger than a grafted dolgo. Probably an inch or so.
There is just tiny scion on both trees. Hard to reach besides.
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sandbur
5 year old buck +
I had a pretty decent apple crop and can’t say that happened. A few trees rested.
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4wanderingeyes
5 year old buck +
For the most part my trees all took a break this year. Just a few with a small crop.
sandbur
5 year old buck +
With good weather, you will have a bumper crop this summer.
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rocksnstumps
5 year old buck +
EMS crab (a siberian crab seedling) still getting checked out. Fruit smaller than your buckman, about size of the courthouse one above. Another Siberian crab is also holding some nickel sized fruit and has some tracks but apple trees next to food plots are more popular. Food plot is grassy clover on this end but have noted that any grass with some green left is also dug for probably just a change from the shrubby browse nearby.
rocksnstumps
5 year old buck +
Does the courthouse crab have white flowers in the spring? If it does bet is a siberian crab seedling or has that in its parent pool.
