Crabapple timeline

[sandbur]

I had round up drift get on the bark of a young tree and it injured it.

B 118 is ok, but if planting seeds for deer trees go with dolgo.

 

[sandbur]

I spent a few days looking at the whole 95 page thread here.

You mention using B118 bareroots as seedlings for pl ain jane orchard trees on the cheap. Still feel its a good idea?

Wild Azz and clowns nose, still like those trees? Looking to focus on october and november dropping trees for this years grafting in zone 3.

Any reference between frostibte or keepsake far as a deer apple? I saw you mention haralson a few times as a good apple. Any others you like, or would like to try? MY yates graft failed last year, might try that again.

You seem to not be fond of roundup spraying around the trees. I do that at home 3 or 4 times a year and maybe once or twice at camp. Spray got on too many lower leaves, or on the bark?

I got real heavy clay at home, but might give making my own seedlings a try. IF you could get siberian or dolgo easily, you'd do it again for grafting. Thinking my interest is more to see what genetic mix comes up, more than problems with antonovka in low pH. You got a decent pic of what the 1st year of growth looks like? Might buy 1 gallon root maker pots instead of in gorund nursery.

I do not have keepsake.

 

[sandbur]

Just for the record, it’s Nov. 17.

Rifle season just closed and i walked some parts of my orchards to see what was holding fruit. It might take me a few days to load pictures. Sometimes service is too Islow.

I can’t tell which apples are really mush in most cases as things are frozen. When winter gets bad enough, deer don’t mind the mush.

This is one of Charlie Morse’s Bunches Crab. They are seedlings he grew from wild trees. I don’t think they are sold any more.

I am not impressed with them. Some are not hardy.

 

[sandbur]

Yellow Dog is still holding fruit. Not a disease free tree but I don’t spray or worry about it. The deer will use it in the winter.

 

[sandbur]

The mother Big Dog tree behaved differently for me this year. The pattern has been for the drop to start about Oct. 25 and last into winter. This year it started a heavy drop about the same time but has completed most of it’s drop.

This is a top work and I have a few more to check. It appears that most crabs have dropped. Perhaps with our wet dry cycles this summer or the warmer summer the entire drop is earlier. This might indicate different drop patterns in different climates.

It still works out great for our rifle season.

 

[sandbur]

Kerr Crab is a winner.

 

[sandbur]

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Kerr Crab is a winner.

Note the leader is tipping from the fruit load. I couldn’t reach the leader to strip blossoms off of it.

 

[Kooch]

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Kerr Crab is a winner.

How old is that tree? It doesn’t look like much of any have dropped?


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[sandbur]

First fruit on a seedling here.

 

[sandbur]

Big Bore. Here you go, Frostbite holding fruit.

 

[sandbur]

Two seedlings with lots of tramped grass under them. One of these I call sour dog.

 

[sandbur]

Red Dog is a dolgo seedling and it has the tipped leader from the fruit load. I should have picked more of these. I like the taste.

 

[sandbur]

Linda Sweet is holding fruit. I think this scion was from the GRIN site when we had access.

 

[sandbur]

A friend gave me these three rootstocks years ago. He couldn’t remember what they were. They tend to be what I would call apple size. Maybe too mushy for the deer?

 

[sandbur]

Here is Clown’s Nose. Another dolgo seedling.

 

[sandbur]

I am still waiting for my Siberian Pears to fruit.

 

[sandbur]

The Buckman Crab is loaded. There are numerous scrapes under it and the adjoining Big Dog and Yellow Dog. I should have hunted this area.

 

[sandbur]

Buckman Crab

 

[sandbur]

I am standing under a sister to the Buckman Crab that has much smaller fruit. There is one scrape under this tree and the next tree is the Buckman crab which has scrapes on all sides. More scrapes down the line.

Both these trees are dolgo seedlings.

 

[sandbur]

How old is that tree? It doesn’t look like much of any have dropped?


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I don’t think any have dropped. If I get back there in the next few days, I will check the label.