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[sandbur]

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Kerr wasn’t dropping very well. A good handshake helped.

 

[sandbur]

The Buckman Crab is still at work.

 

[sandbur]

Big Dog and Yellow Dog topworks on dolgo rootstocks.

 

[sandbur]

Seedling from a wild crab.

Almost any crab dropping fruit right now is working. We have had cold and snow. Temps down to -28 at daybreak.

Dolgo seedlings seem to be winners. Somehow I lost a picture of another dolgo seedling that someone on here helped me name Clown’s Nose. It is still dropping fruit and attracting deer. Several dolgo seedlings are done dropping. I have two purchased ( grafted) dolgo trees from nurseries. One is dropping some fruit and the older tree is pretty much done.


Noran, Courthouse Crab, and another Buckman Crab are young trees that are holding just a bit of fruit.

 

[sandbur]

How old is that tree? 15 years?
Just curious, we planted some at my Club during Covid, we call them the Covid crabs but they are a mix of Morse crabs.

I suspect more like 20 years. He sold bunches red and bunches yellow at the time. Some were not hardy for me. They were seedlings with fruit up to about 3/4 inch in size.

 

[Bowsnbucks]

Well, Bur - all those tracks don't lie. Picture proof of the attraction of those trees. Lots of dandy trees at your place. The deer certainly make the rounds checking for drops at all your trees. Every calorie counts in that kind of cold.

 

[sandbur]

Well, Bur - all those tracks don't lie. Picture proof of the attraction of those trees. Lots of dandy trees at your place. The deer certainly make the rounds checking for drops at all your trees. Every calorie counts in that kind of cold.

They also have some standing corn and are still digging up some alfalfa.

I didn’t take pictures of the trees they are ignoring.

 

[bigboreblr]

You have any apples that go to waste, deer or other critters don't eat?

You grow corn every year? Saw a 2 row corn planter that caught my eye today.

 

[rocksnstumps]

A Dec crab update from NE WI except for Enterprise holding a smattering. These are all ok for deer size. Not showing all the smaller birdie crab still hanging with nickel or smaller fruit

A ranetka seedling



A couple different Franklin Cider. I consider these a crab based on fruit size



An Enterprise about played out



Winter Wildlife



And last a Siberian seedling that deer can only get the very bottom cause they do not drop but the turkeys love them in late winter. This tree is now about 20 yrs old and puts out some fruit.