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This morning at 3:30 AM, two young bucks were sparring in the yard.View attachment 87381View attachment 87382

Moonlight pictures are a bit hazy.

I shook most of the fruit off of the Buckman Crab this afternoon. I still haven’t checked the tree outback.

I also shook Golden Hornet, Red Splendor, and Dolgo (grafted).

 

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Must be a pretty good dolgo to stil have fruit on it.

 

[sandbur]

Moonlight pictures are a bit hazy.

I shook most of the fruit off of the Buckman Crab this afternoon. I still haven’t checked the tree outback.

I also shook Golden Hornet, Red Splendor, and Dolgo (grafted).

Eleven are out here currently.

 

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I got some dolgo scion from turkey creek scion sale last year that was touted as later dropping dolgo. Wondering if thats big dog or not.

Got it growing on a toringo, but will probably trim a bit off and graft onto a P18 this year.

 

[sandbur]

I got some dolgo scion from turkey creek scion sale last year that was touted as later dropping dolgo. Wondering if thats big dog or not.

Got it growing on a toringo, but will probably trim a bit off and graft onto a P18 this year.

I don’t feel Big Dog is a dolgo seedling. I could be wrong. It is rootstock used decades back.

 

[sandbur]

Violi’s is still attracting deer. I shook some limbs after this picture.

 

[sandbur]

Someone on this forum helped name this dolgo seedling as Clown’s Nose. Noticed how close it is to a red cedar with no significant CAR problems. I shook some limbs before trekking on.

 

[sandbur]

Buckman Crab is still attracting deer favorite. It was attracting deer but I shook some limbs before leaving.

 

[Teeder]

I have a couple Buckman in the ground. Hope they end up like yours!

 

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Anybody have a copy of clown's nose yet? Buckman and violi's are planted 30ft from the cabin. I have several violi's from last year planted at camp too. How you rate it compared to your other winter crabs? Think I got 4 violi's. I like that som of the buckman's on the tree are bird crab sized. Hopefully a few grouse make a few copies on the 650 acres and maybe the neighbors parcels too.

That violi is about 10 years old or so? On anty?

 

[sandbur]

Anybody have a copy of clown's nose yet? Buckman and violi's are planted 30ft from the cabin. I have several violi's from last year planted at camp too. How you rate it compared to your other winter crabs? Think I got 4 violi's. I like that som of the buckman's on the tree are bird crab sized. Hopefully a few grouse make a few copies on the 650 acres and maybe the neighbors parcels too.

That violi is about 10 years old or so? On anty?

I need to check the tag on the Violi’s.

Buckman does not have bird sized crabs but much larger. The sister dolgo seedling is right next to it with bird sized fruit.

All of these dolgo seedlings of that age are big husky trees. I top worked two to other varieties and wonder what the rootstock would have produced.

 

[sandbur]

Anybody have a copy of clown's nose yet? Buckman and violi's are planted 30ft from the cabin. I have several violi's from last year planted at camp too. How you rate it compared to your other winter crabs? Think I got 4 violi's. I like that som of the buckman's on the tree are bird crab sized. Hopefully a few grouse make a few copies on the 650 acres and maybe the neighbors parcels too.

That violi is about 10 years old or so? On anty?

The tag will probably indicate Anty as I assumed all SLN at that time were Anty.

As to Clown’s Nose. It is a much smaller and younger tree. I have it and two more marked as dolgo seedlings and suspect these were from seeds I collected . Who knows if I mixed things up. One of the other two I called Red Dog and we picked most of those. There are pictures somewhere above.

The Buckman Crab came from a bundle of dolgo seedlings that came from our Soil and Water Conservation District. I don’t know the source but suspect it was Lincoln-oaks in North Dakota.