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Seeing the thread / comments recently about frosts ruining our trees. Anybody have some good recommendations for late blooming trees? Also, I tried to keep most of my home orchard bloom group 3 and 4. However, does bloom group relate to how late the buds start waking up. Or are there trees who makes leaves, then blossom flowers a bit later?
Hard for me to add to this discussion, my mature trees are unknown at home and my majority of my orchard is 1 or 2 years old. It does seem enterpsie, sundance, and golden delicious do leaf out noticeably later than my bloom group 3 trees.
10 of my home orchard trees are used for scion source to make trees up at camp in zone 3. dolgo, winter wildlife, AWHO, crossbow, 30-06, singal fire (oaknut), chestnut, droptine, franklin cider, kerr, and macoun. Those are mostly crabapples which are early bloomers and most of them are not rated into bloom groups. Macoun and fraklin cider seem to be my only ones that drop/rripe in hunting season and bloom a bit later than most. USDA rexoned my camp to a zone 4 now, but polar vortex's still touch up in the adirondacks maybe once every 3 or 4 years from my 13 years going up there reguarly. -10 degree january night is about expected every year. I am tempted to plant a enterprise up there and see if it survives.
Since this is about late to start apples, has anybody seen wildlife not prefer fully ripened apples. up north the season ends sooner. At my home I am a bit concerned granny smith won't fully ripen each year. However, I could see an early fall frost cut things real short up at camp. I recall a labor day weekend up there with frost a few years back.
I have only so much room at home, well atleast until the wife get real grumpy.... I have few doubles, but I did double on enterprise, sundance, galarina, empire, and pristine. My main reason was later bloom dates more than disease resistance. Wife's favorite all purpose apple is empire, not a bad bloom or disease pick for a 100+ year old apple. Cross between red delicious and mcintsoh.
Hard for me to add to this discussion, my mature trees are unknown at home and my majority of my orchard is 1 or 2 years old. It does seem enterpsie, sundance, and golden delicious do leaf out noticeably later than my bloom group 3 trees.
10 of my home orchard trees are used for scion source to make trees up at camp in zone 3. dolgo, winter wildlife, AWHO, crossbow, 30-06, singal fire (oaknut), chestnut, droptine, franklin cider, kerr, and macoun. Those are mostly crabapples which are early bloomers and most of them are not rated into bloom groups. Macoun and fraklin cider seem to be my only ones that drop/rripe in hunting season and bloom a bit later than most. USDA rexoned my camp to a zone 4 now, but polar vortex's still touch up in the adirondacks maybe once every 3 or 4 years from my 13 years going up there reguarly. -10 degree january night is about expected every year. I am tempted to plant a enterprise up there and see if it survives.
Since this is about late to start apples, has anybody seen wildlife not prefer fully ripened apples. up north the season ends sooner. At my home I am a bit concerned granny smith won't fully ripen each year. However, I could see an early fall frost cut things real short up at camp. I recall a labor day weekend up there with frost a few years back.
I have only so much room at home, well atleast until the wife get real grumpy.... I have few doubles, but I did double on enterprise, sundance, galarina, empire, and pristine. My main reason was later bloom dates more than disease resistance. Wife's favorite all purpose apple is empire, not a bad bloom or disease pick for a 100+ year old apple. Cross between red delicious and mcintsoh.
